Tag: Likes

  • Welcome Back, CUNY! (And some others, too)

    Not sure what is going on, but for almost two years now, at the start of the college semesters, I have a huge uptick in “referrers” coming from CUNY, The City University of New York. (At leasts that what the stats provided from WordPress says…) And these CUNY referrers are looking at only one blog post:

    Short Story Review: “Colorin Colorado” by Camille Bordas

    This is not a complaint, REPETE, this is not a complaint…

    Now, I get all this traffic from the CUNY referrers, but no one leaves a comment, or gives a like, or does anything. I appreciate the traffic; it keeps my numbers up, and one day, I just might earn a dollar from ad revenue.

    Speaking of traffic, thank you to the people he keep reading the ALGOT blogs, and the Face in the Mirror short story review! You are keeping this site alive.

    This is for all of you, but especially the CUNY people…

  • I Pay Attention to What You Look At

    I would be telling a huge lie if I said that I don’t look at th analytics for my blog. Somedays, it is like a score sheet to see what works and what doesn’t. The one thing I have learned in the last year is that people only pop on my site to look at the Short Story Reviews. I have also noticed that in the past year, the average time on my site went from 15 seconds to 1 minute. I am flattered that people are spending their time here.

    The other thing that happens is every now and then, an old post will get a couple of hits, and I have to remind myself what I wrote. Some of my old reviews can be rather cringy, a little too harsh, or just wildly off base. I try to leave them alone, not make any edits, as a testament to the moment that I created the piece.

    I am surprised when a non-review post gets a couple of hits, which I take as a very high compliment. I can’t shake the fact that when I sit down to write a blog post, I still think of it like 2000 and I just started my first Blogger account. You know, in the Wild West days of overly confessional bloggers sharing every aspect of their life. That trend came and went, along with the literary glory that came with it. But still… posting is like reliving the creative enthusiasm of a twenty-five-year-old trying to connect with other people, and especially writers, all over the world.