More delving into the logs

As well as turning up "interesting" search-engine strings, there's more exiting stuff to be found in the depths of my website logs.

Another thing my logging software does is flag up what it calls "spongers". That's where other sites display pictures that are actually hosted by my site. It's intended to highlight naughty people who are displaying my content on their sites, and haven't even had the common decency to use their own bandwidth to do so. But I tend to use it just to see people who've (perfectly legally) put copies of my banner on their site, because I'm nosy like that.

Apart from the banner, do you want to know what the most-sponged picture on my site is?

It's this one...



A "humorous" little fake cover I did a couple of years ago. It turns up all over the place on the web. Mainly in blogs and on forums with comments like "I saw Brad reading this on the bus the other day... snigger."

I don't mind, when it turns up on a forum it's actually a fun little game of mine to register with that forum and post a message explaining where the picture came from, and that the person who stole it was a regular visitor to my site. *evil grin*

Another interesting snippet from the web-logs. One of my pictures turns up regularly in a Google Images search, and is actually the conduit for several visits to my site each day. It's this pic...



Presumably it does well in with Google image search because the filename includes the words "boobs". I'm gonna include the word "boobs" in all my images now, my traffic should go through the roof!