I thought I went viral

Let’s talk numbers.

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I tend not to care about that part of WordPress much… the stats section.  I find it odd and hilarious at the same time. Like how i have  more visitors than views. Yeah, I’m bad in math but even that doesn’t add up in my head.

Or how I have more visits from different countries than amount of visitors for the day. Some of my followers must really get around…

That’s another thing, i have people who follow my blog and I’m not even sure they’re people. Which is why I don’t follow you back. If  I see you liking more than one post and commenting only THEN do i go check out your blog and then follow you back. I just have so many blogs subscribe to me that either are advertising blogs/spammers or freshly joined and give up blogging after a week or two. I can’t tell you how many inactive blogs are on my subscription list. If i follow a person, i drop a comment so you know I am real person. If i get no written confirmation of your follow and no comments on my posts how am I supposed to know you are real?

My blog has always been a small gathering. I have about 400  followers. I’ll say maybe about 100 are real people and maybe 50 are actual active bloggers but maybe 30 or so are “big bloggers” that only post on their site and never venture outside of their own posts, barely even get a response from a comment on their page.

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Daily I get an average about 10-30 visitors and 10-50 views. Basically, I’m in the teens each day and it bumps up when I post a blog or comment on others blogs a lot. I use tumblr to repost posts I use here on WordPress and pinterest to pin pictures I use and links to that articles post. And i get two or three referrals from there.  I get a dozen or so likes per blog post.

I don’t really care about those numbers.

If you read my blog, cool.  I perfer actual interaction with bloggers via comments. But, I’m lucky if i get anyone to actually comment on a post.

That’s what i care most about. Comments. When i read a blog post, i comment. If I follow you, I’ll comment.

But, i don’t really care THAT much. I’m content with my little ol’ blog.  If you read it and think its cool, awesome. Thank you. You take the time to comment, i thank you via a comment. But, I”m content saying my piece and publishing it. I blog to get it out of my head….whatever it is.

I follow some great blogs and I’m happy with the little blogging ritual i have now. Checking out all my favorite blogs and investing into those blogs who interest me.

But today, I logged onto word press and noticed my “all time best” changed.

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Before it was 98 views ( and not sure how many visitors it was before wordpress added that feature). It changed to 160.

I was stumped.

At first i thought something i wrote went viral.

But, I haven’t posted anything new .

And i didn’t have any notifications that were my own ( just responses to comments I’ve left on others blogs).  So i ventured over to the stats page and started investigating.

Apparently, my images was the cause of the all the ruckus.

Images I used LAST year for St Patrick’s day( a small general happy st patty’s day! post).  About 120 of the visitors and views i received was from those articles or clicks on those media images or from google images( that’s where i get all my images , image search in google using keywords and I always link back to whatever address it says when i click on ‘view image’ ).

So I did not go viral. Just the images I used are appealing to others. Others wanted to wish a Happy St. Patrick’s Day THIS year using images I used last year when last year that post barely got any views, no comments.

It’s a little nice to know I’m so cool people don’t even know it’s cool yet… my taste is a year ahead of the times.

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