I'm back. I'm not going to talk about the funeral or anything here, but if you're an LJ friend you can see some of the details there if you're interested.
Before I went, I added one of those Feedburner things, inspired, once again, by Jem. The subscriber count has kind of diminished though, last week it was about 8 subscribers and now it's on 3... Or 2, depends when you look
Oh and speaking of Jem, I visted some site today where she's been credited with the creation of my script, PHPAskIt. WTF? I wrote that! I mean, I don't mind the site who did it crediting someone else (as long as it isn't themselves) but still... Jem gets too many hits as it is, she doesn't need ones meant for me on top of the ones she gets already. Hmph... :P
Aaaand, I discovered today that my site is listed on the second page of Google when searching for Amelie. Not sure when that happened... Last time I checked, the first 20 million or so results were all reviews of that film with the same name, and plus I have Google and other bots blocked from my site since it stops spam... Somehow it's still associating my name with my domain, which it shouldn't really be doing since it's not supposed to index this site or anything. Oh well, can't complain - I was thinking of getting back into SEO and letting the bots back in anyway so this is definitely a good incentive. :D
Finally... Remember my dad's sponsored run? Well, my aunt (his sister) has done a sponsored skydive. She's already done the skydive but is hoping to use it to raise money for Daisy's Dream, a charity she's volunteered for for some time and who do an amazing job. If you have some spare cash, it would mean a lot to her and to us if you would sponsor her. Thanks :P
Edit: Oh yeah, and I made a fanlisting. Yeah, yeah, I jumped on the bandwagon... Anyway, it's for Jem's script, BellaBook. JOIN PLZ JOIN PLZ JOIN PLZ!!!111 (No really, it would be nice if you could join... If you're a fan of BellaBook, that is. Hee!)
Jem
4/07/2006 at 18:51
You make it sound like I told them to credit me! I don't want to be associated with your script damnit ;)
Amelie
4/07/2006 at 18:53
Well that's not what I meant - I'm sure it was a simple misunderstanding. I've tried to contact the site but their contact form leads to a 404 and I can't find any other contact link or email address :(
Jem
4/07/2006 at 23:08
You're too easy to wind up Amelie - I wasn't being serious! ;)
Jenny
4/07/2006 at 23:49
As for Google indexing your site, it's not indexing any of your pages (do a site: search on your URL — no cache or other pages that aren't on a subdomain), since you told it not to, but enough people have probably linked your site with your name that Google pulls up your site for 'Amelie'. You can exclude it from indexing your pages, but I don't think that stops Google from evaluating other people's links. I know I read that somewhere, but I can't seem to find it in the Google docs: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/
Amelie
5/07/2006 at 8:02
Thanks for that, Jenny. I thought that's what it was, I was telling Jem yesterday that it was probably the fact that people were linking me with the term "Amelie" than Google indexing my site. However, I've tweaked my robots.txt and my meta robots rule to allow Google (and nothing else!) in now. Hopefully that won't cause loads of spam but if it does then I'll block it again. ;)
Adastra
9/07/2006 at 22:15
I'm still trying really hard to completely block all search engines from indexing my site, but I think it's not working too well. It's still listed when you enter the right combination of keywords, which is really annoying. That's why I also had my blog password protected (e-mail me!), because I really don't like the idea of some people reading my blog. My robots.txt doesn't allow anything at all, and it's been like that for half a year now...
At one point I even received an e-mail from Google(!!), asking me to unblock them! I was totally surprised by that.. It didn't look like a fake or something.. I told them to **** off... (in a nice way)... *rolleyes*