Recently, we see periodic queries about strange visitors to our blogs. Why does my StatCounter log show odd links into my blog? What is "www.blogger.com/navbar.g?targetBlogID=", and why do I see traffic from that link? Why am I getting strange traffic to my blog after I publish changes? All of these questions, until Mid November 2009, were related to the same thing - the "Next Blog" link in the Navbar. Now, all of this is changed . When you publish to your blog, your blog goes into a huge database, listing blogs just updated. You can see a replica of this database in the Recently Updated Blogs list. The RUB list is huge - it shows a 10 minute slice of Blogger publishing, and at any time, will have from 4,000 - 8,000 entries, with new entries constantly being added (just as old ones drop off the list). The RUB database is important to the Blogosphere. When anybody clicks on the " Next Blog " link in the Navbar, an entry from that database results ...