I don’t court blog popularity and while I appreciate my audience reading and leaving comments I mainly write my blog for myself as a kind of journal. At most each post was getting maybe 1000 reads but over the years that gradually dropped to around 200 or less. While a lot of my favourite bloggers turned to YouTube or give up I happily soldiered on.
So it was quite a surprise in the last week to see my views start to rise. My latest not particularly interesting post has had 2,500 views which I think is quite suspicious though comments have only been from the usual sources. I wonder if anyone else has noticed such a large and sudden pattern change. Do we put it down to bots AI or some alien interference and why do the ramblings if a 76 year old who doesn’t get out much attract such attention.
After reading loads of comments on other post about the viewing figures huge rises, it does seem across everyone.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you stayed on as a Blogger! I hate having to open accounts just to read my old favorites when I just want to dial up and read something different from my life! Sorry I don't comment often but do check you out daily.
ReplyDeleteSame here, a mysterious increase in page views very recently. It’s hard to find my blog via Google so you have to wonder why, how, and for what reason.
ReplyDeleteYes, my blog too although the numbers from Vietnam, Brazil and Hong Kong which I’ve suspected could be bots for sometime have actually tailed off. I read somewhere that the recent rise across the Bloggerverse could be attributable to crawling for purposes of AI.
ReplyDeleteI get very few views but have noticed an increase recently too. No rise in comments, though!
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