Beloved bead necklace
It's been a while since I realized that I have regular readers in Canada and the United States. They are probably stray Brazilians. In the early hours of the morning, when Brazilians are already asleep, they read one or two short stories. How do I know that? Blogger, the Google tool that allows users to easily create a blog, provides the blog owner with a page with a series of reader statistics. That's how I discovered that readers who search for keywords on Google never find my blog, and that I have readers in North America who, I don't know how, discovered my short stories. Perhaps through the social networks where I advertise them?
Every time a reader reads one of my short stories, I feel like one of those people addicted to social networks must feel when someone "likes" their photos, it gives me an adrenaline rush. This is because my readers are still few, like the beads on a necklace. A one-turn necklace. So I keep them all in my heart, and I continue to dream of the day when the blog with its own domain that I ordered will be ready. Then, perhaps, the Google search engine will find my blog.
But what impresses me most about my blog is the abrupt change in the number of visitors from one day to the next. I go from a hundred daily readers to two or three in the blink of an eye. What controls these variations? It must be the passage of Venus in my sky... No kidding, maybe these days I can pick up the pace and write texts that are more enjoyable to read, and those two or three loyal readers will send a link to these stories to their friends, with a comment below saying "Look, it's worth a look today".
I also discovered with the help of my aunt, one of my three loyal readers, that it is impossible for a well-meaning reader to leave a comment below the stories I publish every day. In all honesty, I've always been keen on uncovering mysteries and writing computer programs. However, the difficulties I encounter when trying to understand why some things on my blog don't work as they should leave me deeply frustrated. I've studied the help texts for blog developers on SEO practices, I've scattered tags all over the blog, keywords, short post descriptions, I've improved the images I use to illustrate my posts and nothing has worked. To console myself (?), even a programmer who does blogs for a living couldn't solve this mystery. So, I've hired a company to make a new blog for me and, until it's ready, I'll just keep on dreaming about a future full of readers.
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