Tuesday, July 04, 2023
July blog report
This blog is pretty sleepy; I just put my blog report on it once a month, and a few other things I might say or do with marketing, and it has some ancient functions too, one of which is to be connected to a whole slew of blogs I don't use much. BUT this month it went from a general average of less than forty hits, to nine hundred in a month. That's like about twenty times its average.
And it wasn't alone it that regard. A whole number of blogs got five or ten times what they usually do. Blog averages are up across the board; of my personal ones 26 out of 28 were up and lots were way up. Of the commercial ones seven out of eight were up. Lots of averages have gone into the hundreds (I figure out a rolling average out of the most recent three, and then see how they're trending comparing it to the previous rolling average). But in fact there had been a steady rise all spring. This month blew everything away!
The immediate explanation would be the blog carousel. Presumably some blogger bot comes along, comes to my blogs (all 28 of the personal ones, for example), and picks out a bunch of them to put on the carousel. When they're on the carousel a lot of random people click through them, just looking at random blogs. I go and click on the carousel every once in a while, and twenty or so blogs (until I get tired of it) get the benefit of a random visitor just showing up at their blog. It would explain why this one, for example, could get nine hundred hits. And it's also possible that that bot, taking them in order, could pick out a whole bunch of mine and put them on the carousel in a single month.
I say that because even some blogs that don't get much action, aren't linked by other blogs, etc., still did well. In some cases really well. could have been a carousel month. And then, there were a few that didn't do so well, and also a few that just kind of stayed at their low level, which makes me believe that it wasn't a month for just a huge swell of blog traffic in general, like I think October and November are.
It could be that some people find my picture squares, on about half a dozen of my blogs, where they are mostly linked to other blogs. This tends to help out the most-linked blogs, and I also think, if they go back and forth checking out the different pictures, I might get multiple visitors for every time they come back to the one they're jumping from. A couple of these episodes and I can get twenty or thirty visitors in an hour. Similarly, they could be going on the lighthouse tour. That would give them a general tour of a lot of the good ones and once again, I pick up quite a few visitors per minute every time this happens.
It doesn't explain why a blog like this one would do so well, as I don't believe this one is one I've really tried to peddle at all over the years. This one is a kind of pun on linkin/lincoln and has most recently been valuable as a place where I ruminate on all this active marketing action, and collect my thoughts going into a new month. Not that I ever act on my big plans for system.
The system, in general, is 28 personal blogs, 8 commercial ones, and a few dead ones that I keep track of. Some dead ones I actually revive, as I believe they can be resuscitated with a little effort. Others are "live" but I have trouble posting on them regularly, and they might as well be considered "dead." I reflect on the whole system as much as I can. And I find it wondrous that so many people (in June at least) would come to visit any of mine.
And it wasn't alone it that regard. A whole number of blogs got five or ten times what they usually do. Blog averages are up across the board; of my personal ones 26 out of 28 were up and lots were way up. Of the commercial ones seven out of eight were up. Lots of averages have gone into the hundreds (I figure out a rolling average out of the most recent three, and then see how they're trending comparing it to the previous rolling average). But in fact there had been a steady rise all spring. This month blew everything away!
The immediate explanation would be the blog carousel. Presumably some blogger bot comes along, comes to my blogs (all 28 of the personal ones, for example), and picks out a bunch of them to put on the carousel. When they're on the carousel a lot of random people click through them, just looking at random blogs. I go and click on the carousel every once in a while, and twenty or so blogs (until I get tired of it) get the benefit of a random visitor just showing up at their blog. It would explain why this one, for example, could get nine hundred hits. And it's also possible that that bot, taking them in order, could pick out a whole bunch of mine and put them on the carousel in a single month.
I say that because even some blogs that don't get much action, aren't linked by other blogs, etc., still did well. In some cases really well. could have been a carousel month. And then, there were a few that didn't do so well, and also a few that just kind of stayed at their low level, which makes me believe that it wasn't a month for just a huge swell of blog traffic in general, like I think October and November are.
It could be that some people find my picture squares, on about half a dozen of my blogs, where they are mostly linked to other blogs. This tends to help out the most-linked blogs, and I also think, if they go back and forth checking out the different pictures, I might get multiple visitors for every time they come back to the one they're jumping from. A couple of these episodes and I can get twenty or thirty visitors in an hour. Similarly, they could be going on the lighthouse tour. That would give them a general tour of a lot of the good ones and once again, I pick up quite a few visitors per minute every time this happens.
It doesn't explain why a blog like this one would do so well, as I don't believe this one is one I've really tried to peddle at all over the years. This one is a kind of pun on linkin/lincoln and has most recently been valuable as a place where I ruminate on all this active marketing action, and collect my thoughts going into a new month. Not that I ever act on my big plans for system.
The system, in general, is 28 personal blogs, 8 commercial ones, and a few dead ones that I keep track of. Some dead ones I actually revive, as I believe they can be resuscitated with a little effort. Others are "live" but I have trouble posting on them regularly, and they might as well be considered "dead." I reflect on the whole system as much as I can. And I find it wondrous that so many people (in June at least) would come to visit any of mine.
