With help from crowd sourcing used by Pete to assist me, I was able to find the statistics for each individual post I have written in the last five years. I wanted to see how many times my post from June 3, 2017, “The Cabots Speak Only to God” had been viewed. I was curious because when I check my views each week several show up every time for that one. It turns out that it has been looked at 1766 times! The next highest is 691, with a typical post getting between 50 and 100 views.
The question is WHY. Why on earth would a post about my time in my dormitory Cabot Hall keep getting readers four years on? There can’t be that many people interested in that dorm. I can only conclude that they are coming there after doing a search through blogs with a keyword “God” or “Cabot.” Now perhaps it is a search for Cabot, either the cheese or the explorer. But I suspect that it is actually a search for “God.” Not God per se(although maybe that happens too!) but mentions of God.
I assume that as soon as someone reads the actual post they are quickly aware that God is not the focus of the post. Neither of course are the Cabots, except for making fun of them.
Just wondering if any of you have similarly wondered about popular posts. If so, I would love to hear which ones top the list.
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This reminds me of my blog posts about Mama Mary’s birthday. One time, got almost 5,000 views in one day about it and every I am still surprised by the number of visits I get about her.
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I guess that makes sense that people would search for posts about her. Isn’t it encouraging to see how far reaching your writing can be?
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I have heard other bloggers comment on strange phenomenons such as a sudden surge (like off the charts type) on old posts that seem to happen for no rhyme or reason. I don’t think I’ve had anything too weird happen in my almost three years of blogging.
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Sometimes it seems it is a spammer liking the same post over and over!
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That is fun to try to figure out how people find a post, especially an old post. I make my blog post titles and labels descriptive to attract people interested in those words. God and Cabots, interesting.
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I never do that on purpose. I am usually trying to be witty.
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I posted a music post about a British band in 2016. I didn’t expect any interest in it.
It received hundreds of views that week, and continued to receive many more during that year. Since then, not one single day has passed when that post has not received views, including two yesterday. It is still my most-viewed post, currently standing at 5,721 views. That is a full 1,000 views more than the post in second place. I have no idea why it is so popular.
Best wishes, Pete.
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It was your experience that got me seeking my numbers. Thanks for the prompt.
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This is very interesting! I must look to see mine. Stay tuned.
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It’s strange sometimes. The post of mine that has had the most views has absolutely no comments, while most of my posts get a fair amount of comments!
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The Cabot rarely gets comments either.
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Your guess is as good as mine my friend!
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As soon as I wrote this it got even more views!
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Don’t people say God works in mysterious ways? Maybe that’s what He’s doing! Who knows!
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Good point!
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I’ve never looked at my views…
But yes, “why” … in a way, we would really like a comment at said post!
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They rarely comment on it. I think that shows they were definitely looking for something else.
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I don’t look at my views….
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I took a look at the posts with the most all-time views. After my Home Page/Archives and About Page, which far surpassed all the others, you might be interested to know that it was, Exploring Fort Stevens, about our last camping trip in 2020.
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I can imagine that people might have looked for that State Park in a search.
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Hi Elizabeth, I have read other posts where bloggers have commented on a similar sort of situation. Clive has a post called Under the Covers which gets a lot of visits. People must be disappointed when the realise he means covers of songs. Jim has a post about the most popular tires in the world and its about Lego tires not car tires. It’s quite funny.
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Thanks for telling me about these. They are as humorous as my views I think.
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Sometimes when one of my posts gets an unusual number of views, I find out someone else who has a lot of people following their blog linked to my post or reblogged it. Or shared it on their Facebook page.
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That makes much more sense than the Cabot/God post.
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You just had me on a search to find this out Elizabeth.
Interestingly the most viewed page is my ‘Meet Jennifer’ page, which is rather interesting, people like to know who is writing what they’re reading.
And my most viewed post is ‘Tea & Tigers in the Highlands of Malaysia’
This one pops up quite often on my stats.
So interesting!
Maybe because people are looking for travel destinations, tea or tigers 🤔
Blessings,
Jennifer
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Or Highlands? Imagine their surprise when it isn’t about Scotland.
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So true! 😀
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