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It seems this Journal gets 222 visitors a month. That's a lot of spammers. A portion of that comes from my web site because, well, that doesn't get updated but here does, and there's obviously crossover of content. (Translation: most of what I put here, I should be putting over there. I don't know if there's some simple way around that. The website is broken up thematically. LJ isn't. Unless I can embed using tags or something. But then I'd need to change the layout to match the site & I want to move away from LJ, if I could find some way to export photos as well as text.)

As I think I've said, I've been looking at the keywords to see what brings people to the site because I want to redo it and it makes sense to keep/develop what is already useful.

The alternate spelling list and its accompanying notes page accounts for most of the traffic. I started that in 1996 when I was in Critters and I was sick of Americans who can't spell :)

Then the pages on the orphanage (which I get most questions about) and the female factory in Hobart (and the cows, what is it with the cows?).

Based on keywords, after the above stuff, most people who visit are looking for stuff on churches, cemeteries and bushrangers. Who'd've thought?

That's people from people who find the site. I can't help wondering if they're actually getting the answers they want, and what about people looking for related information that don't find it. Oh well :)

I had a plan to redo my webpages that link to useful/references sites to make them more useful. I know there are a number of dead link on these pages, so I thought I'd run them through a link checker first.

The one I decided to use checks the whole site rather than individual pages (yah), including internal links (yah, I think) and gives the bad links as a list that doesn't say what page they are on (uhoh) but that shouldn't be a problem as most of the dead links are on a handful of pages.

The external links, anyway.

What I didn't take into account is I've never ran a link checker over the whole site (usually I just do a page at a time) and I've had a decade and some of moving pages, renaming pages and uploading over existing pages and... other stuff. It could have been worse. I generally keep the same file names and don't generally link to different subfolders, except at the top level. Still, it took a couple of hours to fix things and, in the process, I obviously broke others.

And I didn't get to checking the pages of links. I just took them down (and then had to fix all references to them). I don't think anyone than me actually uses them, but if you do, sorry, they'll be back soon.

Decided to add a bit that has my writing & stuff. Changed the front pages links to accommodate this too. That means the images don't match the links as well as they did before, but it works