Episode #292: I'm Popular In A Bad Way

I needed something relaxing to look at while I'm writing this particular post, because the topic of choice is something that I thought I would never have to deal with in my blogging life, but here we is.

I was comparing my weekly Statcounter reports with the amount of page views that this blog and my book blog had been getting for the past month or so (as well as my other dormant blogs) and the math wasn't mathing.

Example: last week I was averaging a daily page view for this blog of 4.9 and the book blog of about 1 per day. Yet looking at the view count for my last blog post was sitting at 196 views, while my book blog post was sitting at an aggregate total of 561. 

I ruminated on this troubling statistic and I eventually came to the sadly plausible explanation for the sudden uptick in page views was that all of my blogs are being scrapped/pilfered for content. Obviously I'm none-too-pleased about this depressing development.

I spent a solid week ruminating on what I was going to do about my blogging going forward, and the few ideas that I had come up with, weren't really feasible for me. The first idea that crossed my mind was simply writing a short blog post on my Facebook author's page then link to here on the blog. While I did change the settings for the page so that you don't have to be a member of Meta to view it, but I have not figured out how to paste the link to a FB post elsewhere, and would inconvenient to everyone if I said on a blog post, "hey, look for my FB post dated xx/xx/xxxx to read the blog post."

The second idea was to create a newsletter that people could subscribe to in order to read my blog posts. But that was problematic on sooooo many levels that I sent that idea to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

So having discarded those ideas, I'm still left with the quandary of what to do about my blogging going forward. While I don't plan on giving up on my blogging (been doing it now for the better part of seventeen years), I do plan on making a bunch of changes going forward.

I plan on tweaking what I actually blog about. Instead of ruminating on whatever happens to strike my fancy, I plan on narrowing my scope to simply the following four items.

1} My family bookcase: I have a huge eclectic bookcase to share with everyone. Archival memory is always a good thing to have, especially when it comes to books, and trust me, my memory is quite encyclopedic when a given situation calls for it.

2} My personal bookcase: mine is about the same size in totality, as it kitty corners, and is chock full of all kinds of interesting things to explore and opine about.

3} My vast music collection, which is located in that kitty corner and my den

4} My writing: which is the original topic that all of my blogs were predicated on. I will still opine about that, but will try to tighten it up to make it not so specific, unless I'm promoting one of my books.

In regards to my other blogs, I started the process of shutting down 99% of three remaining blogs that people could actually peruse: Cedar's Mountain; Father Nature's Corner and It's Always Saturday In Suburbia (my adult blog). I say 99%, as I turned all but one post into draft mode, eliminated the page tabs and any out-of-date advertising on them. My short story blog has already been completely deactivated using the same method, going on now for at least five years. Because of this, any links that you may come across directing you to the first two blogs will be broken and unusable. My picture blog will stay open for those to peruse at their leisure.

So my friends, this post is probably not what you're expecting to read, but it's the one that needed to be made, albeit quite reluctantly. Next week we will be back to our semi-abnormal self covering one of the aforementioned topics.

Have a fantastic start to your week.

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