Friday, September 04, 2026
Sept. (Aug) blog report, lidabit late
Blog visits are up. Maybe it's the heat. Maybe it's the bots, traveling around by the thousands, gobbling up everything I write and selling it to the AI. You can have it I suppose. I never gave you my permission to steal it but I DID put it right out here where anyone can find it.
Most dramatically up, yeah write, where I complain bitterly about the travails of being a writer and self-marketing. I have plenty of complaints but have not really done much to fix the blog up or make it presentable. It went over 100,000 total visits (3rd on my list for overall visits) while it's had over 10,000 two months in a row. What's up with that? I'm not sure a writer's complaints could be such hot reading material. In cases like this I suspect the blogger carousel, and in this case maybe they put it up there twice or put it up there and then forgot it was there. How do I know? In any case it's raking them in. I'm not turning them ito book sales yet, maybe that's coming.
So, 29 personal blogs, 9 commercial, all but about six have rising averages. 21 of the top 22, and four of the nine commercial, all over a thousand hits a month.Bots you say? Could be. Just like a bot to come back, over and over again, and not even tell you why, not to mention tell you where the heck they came from. I thought Google was making the pages of links more hidden (where the average bloke finds us, in a page of search engine returns), but if we lost from that, we gained from the bots' relentless pursuit of truth.
The dead blogs ironically were down a little. I use them actually to see how many bots float around even scraping up dead blog carrion, hasn't been renewed in maybe twenty years in some cases. Yes, they still get some hits. Maybe that's the baseline. If you get thirty or forty even when you're dead that doesn't say much for the standards of your visitors then, does it?
Life goes on, as my one and only CD says. I have a few blogs to fix up, if thousands are going to show up every month. And it looks like they are.
Most dramatically up, yeah write, where I complain bitterly about the travails of being a writer and self-marketing. I have plenty of complaints but have not really done much to fix the blog up or make it presentable. It went over 100,000 total visits (3rd on my list for overall visits) while it's had over 10,000 two months in a row. What's up with that? I'm not sure a writer's complaints could be such hot reading material. In cases like this I suspect the blogger carousel, and in this case maybe they put it up there twice or put it up there and then forgot it was there. How do I know? In any case it's raking them in. I'm not turning them ito book sales yet, maybe that's coming.
So, 29 personal blogs, 9 commercial, all but about six have rising averages. 21 of the top 22, and four of the nine commercial, all over a thousand hits a month.Bots you say? Could be. Just like a bot to come back, over and over again, and not even tell you why, not to mention tell you where the heck they came from. I thought Google was making the pages of links more hidden (where the average bloke finds us, in a page of search engine returns), but if we lost from that, we gained from the bots' relentless pursuit of truth.
The dead blogs ironically were down a little. I use them actually to see how many bots float around even scraping up dead blog carrion, hasn't been renewed in maybe twenty years in some cases. Yes, they still get some hits. Maybe that's the baseline. If you get thirty or forty even when you're dead that doesn't say much for the standards of your visitors then, does it?
Life goes on, as my one and only CD says. I have a few blogs to fix up, if thousands are going to show up every month. And it looks like they are.
