Removing Semalt from Google Analytics

If you use Google Analytics, you may have seen "semalt.semalt.com" as a source of some of your web traffic. Depending on how much traffic you get to your site, these visits from Semalt's crawler might skew your stats.

If you don't like that, there's a simple solution:

1. Go to http://semalt.com/project_crawler.php
2. Add your URLs in the form provided at the bottom of the page 
3. Click the remove button.

That's it.

One note: if you use subdomains (eg: blog.mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com) you will need to enter each of those domains in the form - use the enter key to go to the next line.

I used the form a week ago. Sure enough, Semalt has dropped off my stats (as well as all these bizarre instant views from a number countries around the world). So as far as I can tell, this isn't spambait, just a group of folks in the Ukraine trying to make a living - too bad their website isn't a bit more user friendly. I had to spend more time searching for the above link than I liked.

Episode Twenty-one Coming This Week

Not only have I been busy writing and editing forthcoming episodes of Perfect - Episode Twenty-five has been committed to bits and bytes and Episode Twenty-six is churning around in the space behind my eyes - but I've updated the Perfect website in anticipation of publishing Episode Twenty-one ♦ Boxed In during the last week of January 2014.

While most edits are minor code, cosmetic, or navigational changes, I have reformatted the way prior episodes are included on the website. In addition to an all episodes PDF, each episode has its own page now. Find them on the Perfect Index. Now it is even easier to read an episode and bookmark the next - to read it another time.

Now is the perfect time to catch up on Luis and Avinashika's travels away from their comfortable, familiar homes and lives, as they travel across the eastern United States many years in our future. Where are they going? Will they find Willem? Will the give up their new identities as the married couple George and Anita Winston? What will life be like in their new home? Who else will they meet along their way?

Join me in the continuing adventures of the webserial Perfect.

Welcome to my new blog!

To celebrate December and the publishing of my tenth episode of Perfect, I'm revealing my new nom de plume KALEB LYNN THOMAS and website! Welcome and thank you for joining me. Not much here as of yet, but that will change.

Perfect, Episode Ten ♦ Stone

Last time Cordella presented Luis and Avinashika with sleeping gas. What do our heroes do? Where do they end up next?

Please choose from either current episode or all episodes to continue reading Perfect, Episode Ten ♦ Stone.

Are you enjoying Perfect? Please share its new address with your friends and family: www.kaleblynnthomas.com/perfect.

Episode Eleven will be available 16 December 2012.

New Website Almost Ready

I've been putting together a small website where users will be able to find Perfect and eventually other works. Please visit the new website at www.kaleblynnthomas.com.