
Jeremy Reimer
Posts: 9358
Posted on: 2013-07-17 12:22:45.000
Some preliminary data:
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Pages-URL
Total: 81 different pages-url Viewed Average size Entry Exit
/smam3/posting.php 7,783 8.32 KB 694
/smam3/viewtopic.php 5,600 65.29 KB 565 236
/smam3/viewforum.php 3,986 64.87 KB 65 320
/monarch-verify.lsp 3,115 3.83 KB 113 475
/main.lsp 2,412 30.02 KB 1,447 332
/forum.lsp 2,296 7.22 KB 50 105
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We can see the vast majority of views are spambots trying to post on OSY 2.0, the PHPBB forum (they can't, as I've disabled new posts) Then come spambots (and presumably other people, based on some of the Google searches) finding old messages in the OSY 2.0 forums.
So what I've done is put a little message on the OSY 2.0 forums saying they are old and archived, and putting a link back to the main page. I've also put some Google ads on the old forums, because I have $55 owed by Google for ads from years ago, and it would be neat to get that up to $100 so that I can actually get paid from them. Since it's not new content, the ads won't annoy posters in OSY. 3.0.