RE: I Was Counting Visitors Instead of Finding Readers

Person reading a book in a window. (Photo by Syahidan via Pexels) Introduction So, I had a weird surprise last night when I looked at Bubbles1 for some new reading. (I try to read the top ten to twenty articles every day), only to find that my article RE: Why I Stopped ‘Creating Content’2 was back on the front page after 100+ days. I had noted recently that Bubbles seemed to be randomly having old articles pop back up on the front page. I was starting to think it was a bug, but I didn’t have any clue why it was happening. Well now I had an opportunity to investigate. When I looked at the analytics for my site I noticed there had been a resurgence in traffic for the article, much to my surprise. And, I discovered the source: Widdershin’s I Was Counting Visitors Instead of Finding Readers3 post. Now things made sense, kind of. The reference from Widdershin’s article brought fresh eyes to my article. And, I think it gained a couple of up-votes on Bubbles which caused it to “bubble back…

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