The Mysteries of Blogging
Every blogger will tell you – you can’t anticipate what your audience will love. There are pieces I labor over – mostly the travel pieces – and I get some comments, and the hits are steady over time, but nothing spectacular.
And then I will just jot off something in a hurry, and it will get hit after hit. When WordPress first came out with it’s snap-to feature, I wrote just a short blurb, and it gets several hits a day, even almost a month later.
But yesterday, all of a sudden, I started getting hits on Unexpected Pleasures a very abbreviated book report I wrote back in January on a book about belly dancing. If it were just one or two or three or four, I would have just thought it were a fluke, but it was 17, then 26, and finally 31 – in one day!
Most of the hits were coming from one referrer, and when I tried to check the referrer, it had some posts that were not public, so if she has mentioned my review, it is not visible to me. I wrote to Little Diamond who had reviewed the book, and she said she, too, had received a huge number of hits yesterday on that one obscure review.
It is a total mystery. No comments, just people peeking in. I don’t know what they are looking for. I don’t know why that one entry interests them. It is a blogging mystery.
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hmmm perhaps belly dancing is the new strippercise which was the new hiphop-ercise/jazzcercise?
oooh try googling a few keywords from that article and see if your blog comes up,…. i remember finding mine on the first page of a google search by accident.
Skunk, you are a genius. I am going to try that.
I’ve tried! I’ve searched all over the internet for mentions of my post, and nothing from the sending blog had come up. We can see the homepage of the blog who has sent so many visitors our way, but … not the post!
ya khalti, did you think that these visitors stayed around to check out other posts? A number of posts “near” that one also increased yesterday.
Little Diamond, you know me, that was a challenge. So I googled the entire title name, and you came up on page 17. I didn’t bother to look any further, as you pinged me (as I had pinged you). Yep, for two days my stats are about 100 higher than average. Go figure.