Big in Beijing and Bankok
Click on the map on the right. It is a visual display of where traffic to this web site originated during the month of February, 2006. Does anything jump out at you? I’m huge in Beijing and Bankok. And after the United States, the Phillipines sends more traffic to this site than any other country. Why?
I’d like to think it’s my thoughtful musings that attract such an international audience, but I suspect something more sinister. I’ve been a big fan of Movable Type, the software I use to manage this blog, for a few years now. And when I upgraded to the current version, I was particularly pleased with its built-in capability to recognize and divert junk comments. But recently, the junk has been slipping through, big time. I had the settings configured so that no comments went live until I approved them, so none of them ever got posted. But my time was still wasted in having to delete them by the dozens, day after day.
Here’s an example, “Your site is very nice 🙂 Respect to admin !”. In February, I had about 1300 such junk comments posted here.
What’s the point? Apparently it’s all about the return link to their own web sites that they can put in their comment, and the boosted Google rankings they will gain by widely spreading links to their site.
Well, as much as I enjoy the legitimate comments I do receive on my blog, I’ve got better things to do that clean-up the digital trash being left here from the other side of the world. So, for now anyway, I’ve disabled all comments in hopes they’ll go away, or a new upgrade of Movable Type can again give me the upper hand in this ridiculous battle against comment spam.
<p>hi im from austraila and my name is casey im the only one in the hole school called casey i think that is good but my name isnt any where not on the key rings with names on them but my best friends name is amy and her name is so commen everythink has her name on it and i got nothin its not fair is your name commen where eva u r at the momment if it is please email me </p><p>name:casey shaw<br>age:12<br>best friend:amy<br>fav colour:blue</p>
<p>Heya 2 all ya’ll caseys out there cant believe there is soo many of us i ave a friend called casey-blue she is wkd <br>peace nd love 2 all ya’ll caseys kc’s kacies cacys or howeva ya’ll spell it</p>
<p>I have started my family tree on Ancestry.com and came up on your name & site. My father is Elmer Casey so that led me to you. We are from KY. I have a family book that a family member made that gos back to the yr.1810. I am told by others that their is Blackfoot Indian in my geans but have not been able to find them. That would be on the Casey/Kiper side. So I am looking for that. I love your site, and you have a lot of good reading, I just wounder how we a connected. Betty age 57</p>
<p>I am not a Casey but my son named our pretty black cat Casey. Her mother left her behind so we adopted her. That is how she got her name since I gave a daughter up for adoption that was also named Casey, Kaci or Kasey not sure on the correct spelling but she was born in Colorado in 1985. If you are that Casey, we would love to reconnect with you. We still live in Pueblo, Colorado.</p>
<p>cool we have the same name. thats the cats ass.</p>
<p>im casey johnson</p>
<p>I start drama</p>
<p>Hey!!i am called casey!!i am casey rosalina rianto!!i have a friend called casey chin!!So many people called casey!!!My friends always bully me…is because of my name or how lame all caseys in the whole world is!!!</p>
<p>hi i just wanted u to know that my name is casey rizzuto i am a big fan of yours!!!!!<br></p>
<p>hi all the caseys of the world im a casey too and so are my ∞ cats im 20 and live in michigan<br>:-p</p>