My post from last night, Music Monday: Revisiting WOTE (Walk Off The Earth), used the word quirky to describe the wonderful Canadian band, Walk Off The Earth.
It’s not unexpected that last night’s post is my most viewed post today, with 40 views so far today (and 20 from yesterday).
What is surprising is that a post from last August, The A-Hed – the Quirky Side of the Wall Street Journal, is my second most viewed post today, with 37 views. To put that view count in perspective, yesterday that post had two views, and the day before that it had zero views.
I am sure it is pure coincidence that two posts with the word quirky are my most viewed posts today.
I guess you could say it’s kind of quirky…
*image from BU Now
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I love that word… Quirky. I often prefix my searches with that word in fact right now as its Wednesday… and whimsy and quirk go hand in hand…. 😎
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I always look forward to your Whimsical Wednesday posts. I think they’ve inspired a couple of posts for me!
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Quirky indeed! Gift horses like that are few and far between for me so I never look them in the mouth. Ha ha.
But who knows, maybe there is some SEO magic at work.
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I’m sure I’ll never know…
I guess I’ll just accept the gift horse and move on 🙂
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WP did something quirky like that to me once, about three months ago. In one day, I had somewhere around 900 views and 600 visitors. A typical day is about 40 views and half that amount as visitors. The views were spread out among a whole lot of past posts. It was truly, well, quirky.
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Perhaps it was a new follower exploring your old posts! I usually check a couple of posts before I follow someone…
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A couple, or a couple hundred? This new follower must have been a very fast reader.
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I hope whoever it is they stop by to visit my site…
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That’s pretty quirky. Let’s see how this quirky post does.
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I think the word quirky has been used more today than it has in the past year… 🙂
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Quirky – a perfectly quirky word to add to my vocabulary
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it is a fun word 🙂
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true
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It could just be a quirk)
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or a quark… (whatever they are…) 🙂
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Leave it to your professorial mind to find the hidden connection behind the numbers. I might start tagging all my posts with the word “quirky” now. I always love to see views on an older post. To me, It means someone was interested enough to dig a little deeper than the daily post they may have stumbled upon. Ride that quirky wave as long as you can, Jim!
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Thanks, Brad. I always assume when an old post gets some views that someone just came across my site through a Google search…
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I think the same thing!
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Yesterday offered me a quirk too. In the time it took me to open up the app and reply to a comment I had 62 page views, all from Romania, and all for different posts. Or maybe that wasn’t so much quirky as bot-ty?
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or maybe you’ve got a cult following in Romania… 🙂
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If so it was short-lived – no repeat today 😂
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I haven’t had any of these odd experiences that many of the rest describe. Perhaps I’m just not quirky enough.
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I think being a writer automatically qualifies you as quirky… 🙂
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Haha, I will try and use the word quirky in a post title and let you know if it made a difference 🙂
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🙂
By the way, I had to look up what the word “boondocking” meant in your post from the other day…
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It is funny what draws people to a post. I think you are compelling me to actually look at my stats. I still haven’t.
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warning: may be addictive… 🙂
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I actually checked my stats, Jim. They are interesting, especially where I draw most of my views from – US, Canada, UK and India.
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It is fun to see where your visitors come from. Do you get many views from South Africa?
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I do get some, especially with regards to the South Africa places and history. Not nearly as many people blog hear as in the US and UK. Our weather is to good all year round and people spend their time outside. Generally, people here aren’t big readers either.
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I guess you are a trailblazer! I don’t know much about the climate in South Africa; something for me to look into…
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Lol WP can be very quirky sometimes when it comes to keywords!
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QuirkPress…
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Think I know what’s going into my next post….cheers!
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Your site may be overrun with visitors 🙂
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There’s always a first time….
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Love the word “Quirky” and Love “Walk off the Earth”. 🙂
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And it seems the perfect word to describe WOTE…
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That’s so quirky, lol. Should we all be including ‘quriky’ in our headlines now? LOL 🙂
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I’ll try using it again to see what happens… 🙂
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I’ll bite 🙂
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Quirky is a good description! Sometimes I write something which I feel is one of my better efforts, and the number of views is lower than normal. Perhaps I should be checking my astrological sign more frequently. Just kidding on the astrology thing.
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checking your sign is probably as good an indicator as anything else as to what posts will get lots of views…
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