8 jun 3475
9 jun 5549
10 jun 4549
11 jun 3925
12 jun 1186
13 jun 1653
14 jun 4229*
Total: 24,566
*Google updated the numbers and they went from 3007 to 4229 for June 14. Total has been revised. As with the average. June 15 numbers are not final and not counted for the week.
An interesting and mysterious increase in views.
ReplyDeleteEarly last year when the blog got huge spike increases in views, this was followed by the blog being shadow-banned by Google. Hopefully nothing of the sort happens again.
Do you also see a corresponding increase in the number of comments to your posts? It's surprising that there aren't more comments from people on the different platforms, given that PeplumTV gets so many views. I'm a regular visitor and comment poster (my way of showing my appreciation for this cool blog).
The blog was shadow banned because I was linking the blog to MagCloud, the publisher of BY THE GODS! magazine. When the magazine is not being publicized the views go up and remain up. Blogger/Google are very bizarre. They don't like it when I link to MagCloud.
ReplyDeleteThe comments thing is one of the most bizarre aspects of my blog since the beginning of it. The comments have always been low but the views are high. I guess most are lurkers. I know that a lot of people steal my content, like the did with my Youtube channels. I'll write about that soon. When I alert about a new Blu-ray and things like that, like my collection, views go up and up. But no comments. Years ago I created a forum and no one show up. The comments are exceptionally low here. It's very frustrating. lol! I know a lot of people dislike me and my opinions from my interactions with them in the past mostly on Facebook but they still come here for the info and ideas, or images. Like I said it's very bizarre.
There's a sizeable group of people out there who are not happy about the blog and magazine success. I do my thing and that's it. Most of them rarely engaged in anything I do or did. The ONLY time they leave comments is: 1) for a correction or 2) some mumbo jumbo nonsense. So I don't follow them on Facebook or blocked them. When I started the blog 15 years ago there was literally nothing on the PEPLUM genre which is one of the reasons why I started it. And it's been popular since day one. But this group believes I encroached on their territory even though they were obscure to say the least. I didn't even seen them until they contacted me or followed me. It's all weird.
If I keep to myself and don't visit them or view their content, they can't claim that I'm taking their ideas. It's one way of protecting my work. By not associating with them. It's a sad part of the situation but the blog is far and above the most popular site for all things PEPLUM, even after 15 years.
Thank you very much for going into depth and sharing all this by way of reply. I find it so surprising that a forum never got off the ground, there's so much to talk about and appreciate! I always try to keep my comments relevant and sometimes post info which might be of interest. I have followed and enjoyed the blog from the start. Everything I need to know about peplum is here. I particularly appreciate that you have kept going strong with your valuable work regardless of all those negative things you mention. The success of the blog speaks for itself. Happy 15th!
ReplyDeleteWhen you post anything on the internet you take the risk of being criticized. You need to be more thick skinned about this. Who cares what they think? If it gives you joy, f... them.
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