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Q. Why do people build websites?
A. They have something to share.

Plain and simple: Whether you are a business who has something to sell, a website designer, or even the average Joe, the game is still the same - to get listed high in the search engines. The better your listing is, the more people that will come to your website. For the vast majority of website owners, the reason the website is there in the first place is because they want others to read what they have to say.

More in depth: Statically proven, around half of the traffic to a website comes from search engines. How many times have you thought of a question that you wanted to know the answer to and found yourself going online to a search engine to find more information about it? From students researching a subject, parents wanting to learn more about parenting, a person wanting to learn more about a health matter to someone who just wants to know where the best gas prices are (and everywhere in between) the web has become a huge resource in our everyday lives. With internet access becoming more readily available, the search is on to find information at your fingertips.

While learning to design websites over the past 7 years, I have read hundreds of web pages, bought hundreds of dollars in books and done extensive research in the field of website design. From the psychology of fonts, linespace, colours and layouts of websites to analyzing log statistics, learning about robots, search engines, spiders, HTML, CSS and other essentials of websites, I have gained a new respect for what it takes to build a good website. No matter how many things I read, how many experiments I try, or how many websites I build, it all seems to boil down to the same point over and over. For anyone who has a website, the higher the listing is in a search engine, the more chances you will have to let another person read what you have to say.

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I was thumbing through my website and checking the theme, working on come CSS when I happened to look at my logs. It seemed every time I clicked on a post to check some alignments of the theme, that there was another entry right under mine - from a different IP address. The 2nd time I noticed it, I figured that maybe it was a coincidence and someone happened to click on the post the same time I did. The third and fourth time it happened, I had to wonder. Below is a copy and paste from my logs. The 192 address is mine, but look at the log entries right below mine:

192.168.1.100 - - [17/Sep/2005:00:03:39 -0400] "GET /category/security/ HTTP/1.1" 200 8538
66.249.65.172 - - [17/Sep/2005:00:03:40 -0400] "GET /category/security/ HTTP/1.1" 200 8520
192.168.1.100 - - [17/Sep/2005:00:04:05 -0400] "GET /2005/09/06/hacking-to-learn-what-the-media-doest-tell-you/ HTTP/1.1" 200 11431
66.249.65.172 - - [17/Sep/2005:00:04:06 -0400] "GET /2005/09/06/hacking-to-learn-what-the-media-doest-tell-you/ HTTP/1.1" 200 11440
192.168.1.100 - - [17/Sep/2005:00:04:17 -0400] "GET /2005/09/06/comp-tias-securitycheet-sheet/ HTTP/1.1" 200 7178
66.249.65.172 - - [17/Sep/2005:00:04:18 -0400] "GET /2005/09/06/comp-tias-securitycheet-sheet/ HTTP/1.1" 200 7247
192.168.1.100 - - [17/Sep/2005:00:05:11 -0400] "GET /2005/09/05/wireless-networking-warchalking/ HTTP/1.1" 200 7950
66.249.65.172 - - [17/Sep/2005:00:05:12 -0400] "GET /2005/09/05/wireless-networking-warchalking/ HTTP/1.1" 200 7947
192.168.1.100 - - [17/Sep/2005:00:05:29 -0400] "GET /2005/09/05/wireless-networking-all-the-wars/ HTTP/1.1" 200 8180
66.249.65.172 - - [17/Sep/2005:00:05:30 -0400] "GET /2005/09/05/wireless-networking-all-the-wars/ HTTP/1.1" 200 8272
192.168.1.100 - - [17/Sep/2005:00:05:40 -0400] "GET /2005/09/04/wireless-networking-the-wifi-movie/ HTTP/1.1" 200 7207
66.249.65.172 - - [17/Sep/2005:00:05:41 -0400] "GET /2005/09/04/wireless-networking-the-wifi-movie/ HTTP/1.1" 200 7177
192.168.1.100 - - [17/Sep/2005:00:06:00 -0400] "GET /2005/09/03/wireless-networking-borrowing-an-internet-connection/ HTTP/1.1" 200 8244
66.249.65.172 - - [17/Sep/2005:00:06:01 -0400] "GET /2005/09/03/wireless-networking-borrowing-an-internet-connection/ HTTP/1.1" 200 8242

Someone? Something? Was mimicking my every move. By this time, I became extremely curious. I wondered who/what was mimicking my every move and how. I decided to do a whois on the IP address:

OrgName: Google Inc.
OrgID:
GOGL Address: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway City: Mountain View
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 94043 Country: US

NetRange: 66.249.64.0 - 66.249.95.255
CIDR: 66.249.64.0/19

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