I make it a habit of checking traffic stats, page views, and such for the site and I don’t usually see much out of the ordinary. Lately though my traffic has spiked and while I’d normally be excited the traffic looks like it’s just from crawlers such as googlebot.
A less informed person would shrug it off as a fluke. I know better. Someone is spoofing the user agents and driving up traffic on my site and it appears for no good reason. It’s really just obnoxious since I don’t think I’ve had this much traffic in 7 years.
If you’re legitimately interested in what I have to say stop spoofing the search engine crawlers so I can see the traffic for what it is and then I might be motivated to supply new content. If you’re secretly copying my blog and photos for more nefarious purposes, then stop because if I can’t make any money off of my life then nobody will.