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!
DeleteIt seems so, some abominable intelligence, I concur. I don't happen to look much at the numbers, it's been a long time since they are of no real use. But hey, on the bright side, you got the visit of some bots with quite good taste...
ReplyDeleteLucky me, being honoured by the attention of the AI. Not that had a choice, of course. Still, I hope the bots enjoyed it.
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