Just Another Blog
Thursday, April 20, 2006
 
Website Maintenance

I couldn't fall asleep for the life of me last night. Yeah, I know, I should have been doing this blogging then. Instead, I worked on some website issues. I added a robots.txt file, but couldn't figure out (until right before I finally went to sleep) where to place the files for the subdomains. I'll get those added next week. They should drastically reduce my hits because so much of the search engine traffic that comes my way is for a few random, dumb images. I'm using robots to get the images directory off the search indexes. Of course they won't have any effect on you other 5 or 10 loyal readers.

I also set up blackholes for my emails. I get between 350 and 450 spam a day. Hopefully, this will clear that right up. All of those randomly generated addresses that were routing to my main account should now fall silently into the blackhole. I expect it will save me an hour-plus a week just from not downloading and then deleteing those.

Those couple of issues really only satisfy me, so I thought I spend a few quick minutes this morning throwing some content your way too.