I sat down to write my post tonight (just a bit later than normal) and looked at my site stats. I don’t do double-takes often (unless a beautiful woman is involved, I guess). But, I staggered a bit and thought that WP was, perhaps, broken. My view graph was nearly flat-lined for up until yesterday…then it was a mark almost to the top of the graph. I scratched my little bald head and looked closer…yesterday’s graph showed 726 views for the day! As my previous record was 150, I still felt that WP might be messed up.
Now, I had to really begin digging. I called up the full site stats and began an intensive trek into unknown territory. Not like Star Trek, more like Watergate, but still…
I was realizing that “Friday Fictioneers” was the topic yesterday and I couldn’t believe it. I mean, I have been in FF for quite some time and never got near that many views before. I continued to peruse (love that word) the information and finally found out that yesterday there were two posts that received a total of over 600 views:
1) The Minotaur- Haiku and Poem 434 views
2) Three-mile Walk Starts Today 203 views
That’s a total of 637 – a little over my usual for a whole week!
Now, I have mentioned the Minotaur post before here: Something I Noticed
I wrote this poem as a part of http://www.fiverr.com a place to do things for people for $5.
I retained the rights to the poem / Haiku so I just reprinted them. Anyway, I am not certain what kicked this into high gear yesterday, but … WOW! Now, I know that a lot of you get those type of stats everyday and I am glad for that. But this is a first for me and something that I never thought would happen…or not for a long time.
I do notice that I only had 59 “visitors” yesterday, for over 12 views per visitor, but I am not really sure what that means here either.
I also don’t know what a “Tag” follower is, but I have almost 1,000 now! Something else different. I see that the term “minotaur” was hit in the searches a huge amount yesterday. I guess what I was curious about is why this happened yesterday.
However, after digging some more into the stats, I got a hint: One of the search engine stats was for http://images.search.yahoo.com/ . It was very high. When I went there and typed “Minotaur” into the search parameters, my pic for the post was number 47. If you clicked on the pic, there was a link to my post!!!
Anyway, this was just a time to share strange and good news with some of my favorite people. I wasn’t going to do this; I planned on … well, doesn’t matter; I will do it on another post.
Question: What is your biggest view post? Link to it in the comment section!
Namaste,
Scott
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I know I visit here because you bless me… so glad to be your buddy!
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I am glad too. Still working on the idea of visiting the area within a couple of years.
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Hi, congrats! My stats have been quite low this week. I did not publish much because of too many other activities. During last Xmas holiday I scored a lot of views. Most viewers on my blog are interested in meditation … and this like shows up the highest:
http://whoisbert.wordpress.com/2012/12/13/meditation-as-a-screen-saver/
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My stats have been odd too, but in the “not so many” realm. My most viewed post was “Is Cursive Handwriting Dead?” because it was Freshly Pressed. It has had 4,129 all-time views, and here it is in all its glory:
http://robincoyle.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/is-cursive-handwriting-dead/
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I read that one and it was good; of course, I like all of your posts. Keep it up; not sure what the weird thing is about WP stats other than the reader messes them up.
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Hi Scott (and thanks for popping over to my site!) – what an exciting surprise for you! I only started blogging about 2 months ago and am steadily building a following, despite my blog still not showing up in WordPress Reader for some, yet-to-be-diagnosed error. This blog got retweeted 6 or 7 times and was definitely my most popular – http://topoftheslushpile.com/10-things-you-need-to-make-it-as-a-writer/
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Good for you. I should have started following your posts if it works okay.
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Before WordPress got so many bloggers using the Reader, my daily record was 204 views. Other than my “About Me” page, my most-viewed post is one about real world readers reading unpublished writers’ blogs: http://jmmcdowell.com/2012/02/25/do-real-readers-read-unpublished-writer-blogs/
If I could see an accurate count of people reading my posts, I think I’d be showing some increases….
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Congratulations! With this kind of viewing, you clearly have arrived into the blogging world. What does this kind of views for these specific posts tell you?
Shakti
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Ha! This is a cool surprise on your stats age 🙂
My maximum number of views in one day was about 270… And my most viewed post is How To Look French with almost 4000 views so far! (Much more than any other post I wrote.)
http://tryingtobeconscious.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/how-to-look-french/ith almost 4000 views! I’m always amazed to see how many people type “How to look French” into google everyday.
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That’s amazing, but the link did not go to your post!
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Oops, didn’t copy it correctly! http://tryingtobeconscious.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/how-to-look-french/
And I think I’m the or second result on google for “How to look French”
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Awesome congrats!!
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