I had to buy another gig of bandwidth - I'm up to 4,500 'visitors' per day. I can't decide if it's because google et al. have decided I'm a good guy, or because of the weblog over at xanga.com (in which case I might have to remove the offending picture(s), as bandwidth is not totally cheap). Either way, lots and lots of downloading of stuff going on!

That is incredible! I think I get about 10 readers a day :D.

Oh - let's not confuse 'visitors' with 'readers' - I think there's not more than a dozen people or so reading this, for example. But with all the photos on the site, whenever anybody does an image search, my page comes up. But I also think there's something dubious going on, mostly because I can't believe traffic has increased 4 times over in the past few months. I'll keep plugging away...

Could it help to mark your photo pages so that they're _not_ searchable by search engines?

Well, it would, but that would defeat the purpose of having all the photos online, n'est-ce pas?

My bad... I didn't realize that was your intent. I thought you simply wanted them up here for browsing, not for searching.

Well, yes, but if people can't search them they can't find them, most likely. And it's interesting to see what pictures people like to look at - informative. And up until now it hasn't been that onerous. We'll see if it continues....