I woke up yesterday morning and as I lay in bed checking Facebook, emails, the blog I came across something a wee bit unusual. Thinking my page for the stats had not reloaded properly I refreshed it. Nope. It was correct. Someone in Iceland had shared my page on Facebook. This post about to be exact. My blog, this blog, had had my daily number of views before 7am.
My first thought was woohoo!
My second was oh no.
Oh no because large traffic spikes usually bring with them people who like to hate on large traffic spikes. People who don’t know me or this blog and take a dump here. To be completely inelegant about it. It’s part of the reason that I like my blog the size it is. Less drama.
But I’d made an assumption about these visitors too. Now I don’t know the primary reason for the visits. Maybe they had taken my ‘Still My Body’ collage and were making fun of it. No idea, sometimes I think it’s easier that way. Haha. But I know that the visitors that came were respectful, clicked around a little, some subscribed and went on their way.
So awkward. Watch out Suger, your assumption made an ass out of you this time. Maybe now I can finally let go of this idea that I need to keep this blog at a certain size, with a certain sized audience in order for it to be all that I want it to be.
Maybe now I can ditch my excuses and really go for broke. Maybe?
Hi! I’m Melissa Walker Horn. Around here, they call me Suger. I’m the Chief Blogger and doer of all the things here at Suger Coat It. Blogging since 1901; I love a casual ootd, taking photos, and writing about things that irk or inspire me. I love wine and cheese, long days at the beach and spending time with my family. I make stuff for the internet over at Chalkboard Digital. You know, living the sweet life.
First, I LOVE this picture. So candid and open- you can tell what kind of great friends you have. Second, it never occurred to me your point about spikes in traffic. I am always surprised when people don’t act kindly. It leaves me scratching my head and wondering what kind of cruddy childhood they must have had. I am glad Iceland has found you – let’s spread the love, people 🙂
Thank you. Me too. We are such jokers all together.
Gah. Maybe it’s only me who gets messages and negative feedback whenever there is a spike. Maybe it’s because I expect it. Perhaps it’s time to change that idea and only expect good things to come from such things. Thank you.