In the past, most of the posts on this blog have got between 50-100 views. I don't write this blog as anything other than a record of what I've been doing and, while I appreciate the comments that I get, I've never really planned or wanted for it to "get big" at all.
On 19 August, I posted a post about painting an old ork weirdboy miniature. That post suddenly got a (for me) huge amount of views: about 500. The next five posts got between 600 and 1300 views.
On 1 October, I posted a post about painting plastic dinosaurs. This post got 16 views.
So what happened? Why did this blog suddenly get so many views, and why did they suddenly stop?
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My suspicion is that they weren't from real people. I think that, for some reason, the post on the 19th triggered something that attracted a load of bots. (It didn't trigger a lot of extra comments, which feels suspicious.)
I might repost the 19 August post, to see if it triggers more views again. If I do, I haven't gone crazy: I'm just trying to work out what occurred. After that, I'll probably delete the test post (and maybe this one).
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Strange. If you've any idea what happened, do let me know!
I've had a similar thing happen with my recent posts – about 10 to 100 times more klicks, but no more comments than usual. I also suspect that it has something to do with the Abonibable Intelligence or some weird internet crawler thing. A bit sad that the numbers in the backend are no longer a good indicator of the readership.
ReplyDeleteAh, that's a really good point. Lucky me, to have my little blog honoured in the biggest copyright theft in history. But yes, that would make a lot of sense. It is a shame that the numbers don't really represent anything. Thanks for the help!
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