So, back at the end of October 2024, I celebrated reaching 10 million hits here on the Other Side.
Not too shabby of a milestone if you ask me. 10 million hits from 2007 to 2024. Pretty good for 17 years (at that point). I said then: "I hope the next 10,000,000 hits are just as good as the first or even better."
Well. They were! And I barely noticed them.
Sometime last week I hit 20 Million!
It took me 17 years to reach my first 10 million, and then about 10-11 months to reach my next 10 million.
The uptick in my hits all began around the time I stated that D&D 2024 needs a new game world. They shot up significantly then and never really came back down. According to my Google Analytics page I have a reasonably consistent reader base that basically grew by about 500% this year.
That's just crazy. I hope I am doing enough here to make your visits and reading time worthwhile.
What am I going to do for the next 10 million hits? No idea, but hopefully we will all figure it out together.
3 comments:
Congratulations!
Dang! Well done sir!
Look, I hate to bust your balloon, but most of that latter ten million is going to be nothing but bots. View counts don't mean a thing any more, even the most obscure blogs have seen increases of two-three orders of magnitude over the last few years. What benefit they gain is beyond me - scraping for AI training, maybe - but they're hitting everyone. My own primary blog hasn't had a new post since 2023 and precious few since COVID, and yet I still had over 2000 views yesterday. That would have been a good month ten years ago, and it happens at random now. Had a 5000-view day earlier this month - on a dead blog that hasn't reached a half-million total views yet. There's been zero increase in engagement, although thankfully I haven't seen a corresponding jump in spam comments that I'd have to moderate manually.
Most of your hits these days are going to be brainless machines, not living readers.
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