Sunday, October 01, 2023
Stunning September - Oct. 1 blog report
This month was nothing short of stunning. My main blog got over 58,000 hits, 19 times what it got last month; an almost defunct blog (14/mo.) got 239; another almost defunct one got seven times its usual. The fantastic results were not universal; some continued their slide, others did about the usual. But generally surprisingly high numbers were all over the place. An example is the leverett genealogy blog, which has risen recently up to a rolling average (3 mo. averaged) of 265; it got 2455 this month, and the new rolling average is over a thousand.
Rolling averages therefore are rising and some rising dramatically. I have not really kept up with posting on them; got my twelve this month but only barely; but I see that keeping many of them current has a distinct advantage. The system favors blogs that are current by their own algorithm (posting 3X a year and in the last two months? - I don't know, your guess is as good as mine) and blogs whose general purpose is clear. It puts many of these blogs on its carousel regularly which means that lots of people check in randomly over the course of a couple of days. It's also possible that some auditors came in and really checked them all for whatever reason. I can't imagine why some did so well and others were kind of generally unchanged, though.
I have to get the museum rolling because Google threatens to eliminate accounts that aren't logged in to regularly. Please help me remember - I'm in the habit of letting this go another month, and I can't.
I look over the numbers and, once again, I'm stunned. The writing blogs are doing especially well. This could be that people like to click on the pictures of Hemingway, etc., who I installed on a couple of them. They may just be into the "squares" function of some of the blogs which allows you to go visit dozens of them if you explore. And, each time you do, you come back to the main blog (counting as one more hit?) - I still can't believe - 58,000 hits? It's hard to account for.
Rolling averages therefore are rising and some rising dramatically. I have not really kept up with posting on them; got my twelve this month but only barely; but I see that keeping many of them current has a distinct advantage. The system favors blogs that are current by their own algorithm (posting 3X a year and in the last two months? - I don't know, your guess is as good as mine) and blogs whose general purpose is clear. It puts many of these blogs on its carousel regularly which means that lots of people check in randomly over the course of a couple of days. It's also possible that some auditors came in and really checked them all for whatever reason. I can't imagine why some did so well and others were kind of generally unchanged, though.
I have to get the museum rolling because Google threatens to eliminate accounts that aren't logged in to regularly. Please help me remember - I'm in the habit of letting this go another month, and I can't.
I look over the numbers and, once again, I'm stunned. The writing blogs are doing especially well. This could be that people like to click on the pictures of Hemingway, etc., who I installed on a couple of them. They may just be into the "squares" function of some of the blogs which allows you to go visit dozens of them if you explore. And, each time you do, you come back to the main blog (counting as one more hit?) - I still can't believe - 58,000 hits? It's hard to account for.
