{"id":2805,"date":"2009-12-10T21:12:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T03:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/?p=2805"},"modified":"2010-10-31T17:52:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T22:52:24","slug":"blogging-to-mostly-postmodern-mindless-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/blogging-to-mostly-postmodern-mindless-robots.html","title":{"rendered":"Blogging to mostly postmodern mindless robots?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I started blogging two or three years ago it was with the idea of getting more traffic to read articles on my main website www.thepropheticyears.com<\/a>.<\/strong> The blogging has certainly brought readers to the blog part of my website but I do not think it has increased traffic to the rest of my website much at all. I probably could have increased traffic much more by just writing and posting new articles on my main website and not blogging at all.<\/p>\n

Between the blog and the website I probably get about 1000 unique visitors a day or 1500 visits a day, and each visit downloads about 3 written articles from my website. That sounds good until you look closer at the statistics.<\/p>\n

No human could possible read my articles in less than 30 seconds but consistently eighty percent of all visits\u00a0 to my website are for less than thirty seconds. The vast majority of these visits could only come from mindless robots.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I would estimate that only 15 percent of the visits on my website are there long enough for a human to read any article and I bet no more than half of those read anything with any comprehension. That means maybe 300 articles a day are actually being read.<\/p>\n

An analysis of the blog portion of my website is a bit more difficult. The blog gets about 600 visits a day and the blog software would limit the robot activity so perhaps as many as 100 people a day actually stay on an article long enough to read it. I have over 1000 posts on this blog so that rounds down to zero readers per day per post<\/strong>! \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n

I have noticed that the comments almost stopped after I made people actually sign up and login to post a comment for the first time. You might think that mindless robots would not be able to sign up but over half the people that did sign up never commented on anything so they probably are mindless spam robots just wanting to appear as real live humans.<\/p>\n

What becomes very apparent to me in this postmodern culture is that the vast percentage that typically make comments on blogs will not take the time to sign up on a blog so they can post comments on blogs.<\/p>\n

Another indicator of postmodern people reading my posts is that when I provide\u00a0 links to an article that gives further indepth information few people click on them. I get maybe 20 to 50 clicks a day on over 2000 links provided on this blog and that does not even mean that these people actually read the article .<\/p>\n

I have been told by others that have forums that they want to re-post my whole article because nobody follows links<\/strong>. I obviously now believe them. What postmodern mindless human robot would actually take the time to follow a link to get the full story? That is why I have not been quoting many excerpts anymore and providing a link to the full article. For example, in the post before my last one I have seven links to other articles on the global warming post topic and I could count on my toes the number of people that clicked on any one of them. That has been true of other articles with links in them as well.<\/p>\n

So I have to wonder if spending over forty hours each week to read material and write new posts for mostly mindless robots is even worth my time and effort? I guess I will have to continue to think about that. After all, pastors today have much the same problem. \":mrgreen:\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

I also know that each article I post on this blog takes about 10 times the bandwidth it would if I were not using blogging software and I also doubt if my website homepage is getting proper ranking credit for my hundreds of blog articles. Not only that, if the posts are not hit on regularly Google seems to drop them out of their index after a certain period of time even when they are provided a complete site map. They were not dropping my articles out of the index when I just posted new articles on my website.<\/p>\n

Finally, I might as well once again allow anyone to make comments without signing up and logging in, otherwise as you can see, there will not be more than one or two comments. Sorry that the ten or twenty people that actually did sign up and that actually did comment had to go through that ritual for nothing.<\/p>\n

Even so, I will again be monitoring all comments and the first comment from a new visitor will have to be approved by me before it is posted and anything that I do not want on my blog from now on simply will either be not posted or it will be deleted.\u00a0 Those who wish to comment should read the comment policy on the sidebar and thus prove that they can actually follow a link.
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When I started blogging two or three years ago it was with the idea of getting more traffic to read articles on my main website www.thepropheticyears.com. The blogging has certainly brought readers to the blog part of my website but I do not think it has increased traffic to the rest of my website much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,326],"tags":[167,51,54],"class_list":["post-2805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post-modern","category-total-nonsense","tag-food-for-thought","tag-postmodern","tag-trends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawsE-Jf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}