I started my blog years ago with the help of my daughter, to reach out to other artists, tell my story and post original songs I have written or produced for great local artists I have been lucky to know. I added pictures and opinions from time to time. People visited. People viewed. People liked. People commented. I responded. I was encouraged to post more.
A few years back I retired from my day job. Shortly after I retired from musical gigs for other groups and individuals. I posted less often and as you (or anyone) would expect my views dropped. Because of this I noticed something strange after one WordPress Update, and you may have as well.
Then I got one of those surveys from WordPress and whatever they call themselves now. JetPack, I think. I responded and said basically everything was fine but I could not trust the view/like data. Now that I was getting very few views and responses to actual posts, there was an obvious problem. I would have two visitors and three views in a day, but have 35 downloads of my songs and PoetryPod or creative posts……. Sometimes the same song or file would be downloaded 10 times in the same day. But only two visitors. I scoffed and thought surely they know about all the AI e-bots scanning and copying creator content.
A month later and another update. To my surprise, I got a follow up message from my survey with the attitude of what could you mean by our data is not dependable? We are great Please tell us what you mean. I thought about responding but knew it would be a waste of time. So I just let it roll.
Another update. I rarely post now. Sometimes I respond to their question of the day messages……. but now I get between eighty-five and one hundred views in a day. Every day.
More views this month than all of last year. But no downloads. No likes. No Comments. No Referrals. No people.
It used to be fun.
I moved my catalog of music to my SoundCloud page under MIDIMike. Here is a link to one of my PlayLists of great songs so you don’t have to wander through more than one hundred songs I have posted there so far. If you do feel like wandering, I have a different picture or icon that indicates the various projects or styles of music.
I will be posting more on SoundCloud, but I am just too old to fight the system JetPack seems to be using now.
MIDIMike
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