Thursday, November 06, 2025
Nov. 1 blog report
For those of you who wait breathlessly to find out whether I'm getting more or fewer visitors on my 38 blogs, my sincerest apologies; I did the numbers, and they were down, and I'm not especially ashamed of that, I just got severely distracted (not uncommon) and failed to report it. So here it is, a little late.
Down, way down, but, as I look at them, they are more like what passed for normal not too long ago, before a September that was unbelievably huge. And as I think about it, September was also the time of a few random sale spikes, as if people were coming in by the thousands, clicking onto Amazon by the hundreds, and one or two actually bought a book. That's how online marketing works. A thousand visits turns into a hundred clickthroughs; a hundred clickthroughs turns into a sale.
September was so bizarre, so enormous (see Oct. 1 report), that it kind of made this one look bad. But it wasn't all that bad. Only four sites got more than a thousand although the big one, out there, got over five thousand (in September it got 58,000) - look carefully and you'll see that September was the anamoly. And why? I still don't know. I often suspect carousel in cases like this. Blogger puts all my blogs on the carousel regularly, just because they're there. But it could be something else entirely.
The thing about the carousel is, you get a spike of random visitors over about a week or so when it's up there. Random visitors click through all the blogs on the carousel and have no more interest in what they're doing than a bot would have. Or maybe it's bots - do bots count as visitors? Anyway a visit by somebody who truly doesn't care, not even shopping for something I don't have - well, that hardly even counts as a visitor. But it is.
Onward! May November be more like September!
Down, way down, but, as I look at them, they are more like what passed for normal not too long ago, before a September that was unbelievably huge. And as I think about it, September was also the time of a few random sale spikes, as if people were coming in by the thousands, clicking onto Amazon by the hundreds, and one or two actually bought a book. That's how online marketing works. A thousand visits turns into a hundred clickthroughs; a hundred clickthroughs turns into a sale.
September was so bizarre, so enormous (see Oct. 1 report), that it kind of made this one look bad. But it wasn't all that bad. Only four sites got more than a thousand although the big one, out there, got over five thousand (in September it got 58,000) - look carefully and you'll see that September was the anamoly. And why? I still don't know. I often suspect carousel in cases like this. Blogger puts all my blogs on the carousel regularly, just because they're there. But it could be something else entirely.
The thing about the carousel is, you get a spike of random visitors over about a week or so when it's up there. Random visitors click through all the blogs on the carousel and have no more interest in what they're doing than a bot would have. Or maybe it's bots - do bots count as visitors? Anyway a visit by somebody who truly doesn't care, not even shopping for something I don't have - well, that hardly even counts as a visitor. But it is.
Onward! May November be more like September!
