I have never posted about stats before. I’m talking WordPress numbers. But after I posted Party time! something weird happened. It’s only happened once before.
My stats boomed. I was up 1,427% !!
The question is why? Wouldn’t I like to know that secret.
The other time my stats skyrocketed was when I wrote about a Darlene Love concert I attended with my husband, dad and son. We had a venue in Palm Springs called The Follies. She was the headliner for their last few shows that included dancers in their 60s and 70s who look amazing!
I figured out why those stats boomed. I shared my blog post with Darlene Love through social media and she posted it!
But Monday’s post? Maybe it’s because our son’s sister-in-law Alexandra Simpson has a following or Chuck Prophet, the musician she’s playing with in the Youtube video for newly released song “Meet Me at the Roundabout.”
If you don’t know who Darlene Love is, I highly recommend the Oscar-award winning movie “20 Feet from Stardom.” Heck, I recommend that movie because the stories of the backup singers are so powerful and it includes many big stars like Sting, David Bowie and the Rolling Stones.
What are your thoughts about stats? Do you think spikes happen because of key words, SEO, tags? Or just luck?
If properly used social media can boost your stats many folds.
I pay too much attention to my stats and usually have no idea why some days my stats are way up.
Wouldn’t it be nice to know why?
It would.
That was a great post – maybe the title drew more people in as well? Stats are a funny thing..totally unpredictable.
Thank you. I was thinking it might have been the title.
Participating in that Bloganuary challenge had my stats going crazy which was odd to see. I’m just not a stats person.
Interesting. I’m don’t usually look at stats but notice if something is out of the norm.
It’s funny because I just had a combo this morning about tags…yes, I think tags help…but it depends on the tag.
I guess I’d like more data from WordPress to let me know what is going on.
I agree, but my first thought was…yeah…Wordpress will help…ha
Yep.
For me it is length: the length of the post. If it is too long and rambles, I get inpatient and just move on. Some folks seem to think Blogs are an old Greek term meaning “do not know when to shut up, so keep writing about stupid crap”.
I’m with you. I like to read things that are concise and to the point.
I hope there’s a German, Japanese or some other language single word for that. So far the best English has come up with is twitter
I think it is a combination of a lot of things.
I’m sure it is, but I wish I had more of an idea.
I wonder about people overseas from Malaysia and the UAE, even Nigeria reading my blog. I wonder who they are. Maybe they just like the name, cupcakecache, so the stats go up.
That’s always interesting to see the people from around the world clicking on our blogs.
My stats stay pretty consistent, I wish they would spike once in a while? I’m completely lost when it comes to SEO’s but I know it’s supposed to help? Not sure if WP does much to assist? But congratulations on the spike! That’s wonderful, C
Thank you! It was fun and I loved sharing the news with my son’s sister-in-law who played for us. Have you heard of Kygo? She was supposed to play with him at the Phoenix Open and last minute they cancelled the strings. But I think she’s playing with him in the Bay Area this week.