Yesterday was the highest views I ever received on this blog. Coming in at a grand total of 698 all in one day.
Normally I average about 100 hits in a day. It is a humble number, but one that I feel comfortable relying on and makes me feel like a few people are happy to share my little corner of the internet.
698! Wow. That’s huge. Seven times my normal number.
Then I noticed I had exactly 70 visitors yesterday. Not nearly enough to warrant the huge number of views. Almost 600 of which were clicks on my about page…
It was a robot. Some spammer or other maliciously intended individual.
Kind of a letdown. But what upsets me the most is that now my highest views is a lie! It is going to keep staring me in the face, proudly displayed on my stats page in a place of honor. And it was from some robot.
Rawr! Be gone malicious people of the world! I am so sick of you trying to take advantage of honest people. Sick of you taking joy in hurting others. Laughing at us with evil glee while you pull our puppet strings and force us to dance.
Get out of my life and don’t ever come back. I hope someone takes you for all you are worth because that is all you deserve for hurting other people.
I have a love of art, books, writing, steampunk, crafting, and geeky pursuits.
That is so annoying. I can’t believe that spamming earns companies any extra revenue. You could try emailing WordPress, I’ve found them very helpful with issues like this x
Stupid robots -_-
Maybe it was a well intentioned robot? I like robots. Some robots are nice. If it makes you feel any better, I’m shooting for 10-12 PVs per day. Yes, that’s the right number. No, I didn’t forget any zeroes….
That surprises me. I always find your blog posts well written and a joy to read. Are you tagging your posts? Also including pictures (copyright free) can help boost views because pinterest links to posts via an image.
I do tag, and I’m very lazy about images. I know I need to do more of that. It’s all in the plan. Part of it is simply that the blog hasn’t been around very long. I haven’t been pushing it actively. I will soon enough. (it’s all part of the plan…. mwahahahaha) Thanks for the tips though!
Ugh, sorry you got botted. I totally would have done a happy dance – then found out what actually happened and ranted about it for the rest of the week.
Keep up the good work!
(Btw, I would Love to get up to about 100 views a post.)
Be patient – the views will come in time. That or the number will eventually drop off your chart and quit mocking you. Either way – success!