I'm Back!!

And...plan on staying this time around. I'm not gonna lie. I'm very competitive by nature. I have been since the time I was old enough to know what "winning" meant...and not in the Charlie Sheen sense of the word. When I started my blog last Spring, I was excited about the potential following I would build as well as becoming part of the blogging community. Initially, I thought I had something to be excited about, but quickly realized that my blog traffic and stats were tainted by fake blog traffickers. These "imposters" use automated bots that visit blogs in an effort to generate traffic for their own websites. When their web addresses show up in blog stats and people click on them out of curiosity, traffic is generated for their site. I really just didn't know what to do about it. The whole thing just sort of took the wind right out from under my little blogging sails. 

I really enjoy...and missed writing my posts, tinkering with my blog design, and meeting new people through blogging, so I started looking into the situation again. For whatever reasons, I've been able to find more information about it this time around. Everything I've read says they do not pose a threat to my blog and that the best way to get rid of them is to focus on building legit followers and blog traffic. As this happens, most of the advice I read said the fake ones will go away. Well...that's what I'm counting on anyway.

Another concern I had with my blog was that I pigeon-holed myself into a teaching blog. After the fact, I realized I wasn't happy with just that. I want to blog about whatever I find interesting or inspirational. And viola...my new blog was born! It's no longer the Sweet Life of Second Grade, but Where Everyone Knows...It's Wendy. 

I hope everyone enjoys. It's good to be back!

*Thanks for dropping by!

  

Bogus Blog Traffic...What to Do?

?! HELP !?

Over the past couple of weeks, I've been so excited about my blog traffic stats. Well...that is until I began to notice some strange sources. One was filmhill and the other was vampirestat.

Since these two accounted for the majority of my traffic and I had no idea what they were, I started researching. Apparently, they are bogus traffic spamming sites that skew traffic source data. The only thing I really still don't understand is why...what's the purpose? How does  making it appear that my blog has more traffic than it actually does help them?

I also couldn't find any suggestions about what I should do about this. From the sound of it, Blogger isn't concerned and doesn't do anything about it. 

Realizing that there are sites out there that do this sort of thing really kind of took the wind right out of my sails. I don't want my blog statistics to be false, and I was disappointed to find out that I really hadn't had the traffic I'd initially thought.

If anyone knows how to resolve this situation, please help! I would so truly appreciate any information or suggestions about what to do to stop this.

*Thanks for dropping by!