Last November, I reblogged this post.
Checking my stats sometime later in December, I was surprised to discover it had well over 1,000 views before Christmas.
Since then, it has been getting around 20-40 views most days, and is usually the ‘Most viewed’ post on my blog every week. Total views since November 2022 now stand in excess of 3,600 as of today.
And I have no idea why.
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Another mystery for your blog, like Fragglerocking says!
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It really is, Olga. And the views are still coming in!
Best wishes, Pete.
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The reason why is because you are good at what you do and people like you.
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That’s a very kind thing to say, John.
Best wishes, Pete.
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The mystery of how and why methinks we will never know x
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I agree, Carol. It will remain a mystery. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete. x
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I have a similar phenomenon, not with a re-blog but with one of my own posts from 2017. From the statistics provided by WordPress, I know the referrals come mainly from Google, but why Google has chosen to push this particular post remains a mystery.
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Thanks, Nemorino. It seems we won’t be finding out why that happens. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I have the same question about my number one viewed post. Who knows?
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I do enjoy an enigma, Elizabeth. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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So shaking jars of ants gets more views now then that defunct band whose name I can not recall at the moment. Warmest regards, Ed
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It was Jamiroquai, Ed. And that post still gets a few views every week. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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It’s very curious how some posts take off, and many (mostly mine) languish unnoticed in cyberspace.
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I have some posts that have hardly ever been viewed in 10 years. Every so often, one gets so many views it becomes an enigma.
Best wishes, Pete.
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The only phenomenon I’m familiar with is a film starring John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, and Robert Duvall.
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I really enjoyed that film, David. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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It’s an interesting phenomenon, isn’t it? I shared a story about the horse’s head in “The Godfather” being real. A “REDDIT” page called “TIL Things I Learned” linked to it for reasons I never discovered – and it got tens of thousands of hits…this funny world of social media, huh?
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It certainly never fails to surprise me, John. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Maybe because so many identify with the message? But they should add a comment.
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Other than the comments at the time of my original reblog, nobody has even tried to comment.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I have noticed over the past couple of weeks that I have been getting hundreds of spam comments on my travel blog as well as hundreds in the trash folder – each day! In fact I have sat and watched them come in, dozens by the second. Thankfully Akismet must have altered their algorithm because they have been reduced to the usual trickle now. I wonder if it is something similar that reflects bots visiting a site as views?
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That’s a possibility, Jude. Nobody comments though, or tries to comment on the post. If they did, they would show up in ‘Awaiting moderation’.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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Weirdly my spam comments were on photos, though I have photo comments turned off. These spammers use clever algorithms to attack sites.
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How do you turn off comments on photos?
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Go to your Media Library, select the media file and click on Edit. You’ll find a “Discussion” box similar to to the one in the text editor for posts, and you can disable comments there. If you can’t see a discussion option, then click on the screen options at the top of the screen and select it.
In ‘My Home’ settings, media, discussion you can disable comments in a carousel.
I still use Classic editor so I am not sure if this is the same if you have switched to the Block Editor.
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I still use the classic editor too. Thank you for the tutorial!
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It’s a shame you can’t bulk edit the media files, but at least this way if you do it when uploading an image it is not too arduous.
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I’ve had the same thing happen with one of my short stories. Weird, isn’t it?
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I had this before, with my post ‘Whatever Happened To Jamiroquai?’ But this is the first time a reblog has had so much attention.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Hmm, odd.
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It must have hit a nerve with Internet users, I suppose.
Best wishes, Pete.
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It would be nice if the little parable actually changed some people’s behavior.
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Awesome sauce!
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It certainly boosted viewing figures, Annette.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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Congrats…we all are happy for the success. chuq
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Strange though, but good for stats. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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there is no accounting for the ones that hit, just happy to ride the wave )
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The views are welcome, but it still makes me curious to know why.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Whenever something like that happens to me, it’s because someone with a large following linked to my post. I assume you’ve checked your referrers?
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Yes. I had an unusually high number from Facebook. I am not on Facebook, so cannot check who they were.
Best wishes, Pete.
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It’s the new Jamiroquai!
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It is getting that way, undoubtedly. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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