google
Let's look at where stackoverflow.com traffic came from for the year of 2010.
When 88.2% of all traffic for your website comes from a single source, criticizing that single source feels … risky. And perhaps a bit churlish, like looking a gift horse in the mouth, or
seo
So I've been busy with this Stack Overflow thing over the last two weeks. By way of apology, I'll share a little statistic you might find interesting: the percentage of traffic from search engines at stackoverflow.com.
Sept 16th
one day after public launch10%
October 11th
seo
There’s something about the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) industry that I find highly distasteful. I’ve never quite been able to put my finger on it, until I read Rich Skrenta’s pornographers vs. SEOs.
It’s all clear to me now.
SEOs are the new pornographers of the
search engine optimization
Rich Skrenta, who may have written the first microcomputer virus, calls Google the start page for the Internet:
The net isn’t a directed graph. It’s not a tree. It’s a single point labeled G connected to 10 billion destination pages.
If the Internet were a monolithic product,
security
I like to periodically watch the HTTP traffic on my server. I can see what I’m actually serving up over the wire, and how much bandwidth I’m using.
That’s how I noticed that I’ve become somewhat popular with direct-link image bandwidth thieves. In other words, people