Being out of the loop did interesting things to my page views. I don’t get into all the different nuances of telling how many people visit my site. I check what Google gives me in the stats every once in awhile but what I saw today just reinforces how meaningless it is.
I wondered how not publishing for a week would effect the numbers. Would it be lower because people stopped reading or higher because they kept checking to see if I was back in business? What happened seems to be that the bots thought they had discovered a site gone defunct and they went crazy. My page views for July went off the charts. It was like a teen age block party with free booze.
The lesson to learn is not to get too egotistical about this blogging thing. I have already accepted that I will not get a call from NPR to replace the Prairie Home Companion nor will the L.A. Times contact me about a column. Maybe if I stick with it I will be banned by blogger for my insensitive posts.
homo unius libri
I've Decided that if I quit posting memes, my page views would go down by 75%. They don't come for my wisdom and wit, they come to look at the pictures.
ReplyDeleteKeep them coming. It makes it so that I don't need to have anything to do with the places where you get them. Consider it your sacrifice for the rest of us.
DeleteGrace and peace