Yesterday I put up a post about how I'm only going to engage in comments if people have something new, interesting and not adolescent to contribute. The posts with the most hits since then? The ones with no comments.
In addition, our hit rate for the site overall seems to have doubled as well with very few people reading the comments section of the posts since then. My post about the comments section got the least amount of hits and the renewable energy and soldier posts got the most.
Best blogging decision I ever made...
3 comments:
Doesn't make any more sense today then it did the first time you said it. Not that you may or may not get more or less hits, but what you ascribe as the cause makes no sense.
A hit counter either tracks unique visitors or all visitors, but either way the following concept is the same.
A person does not know if a post has comments or not prior to visiting the post - so a first time hit would not be dependent upon whether or not there are comments present.
After reading a post, the only reason to re-visit is to check for updated comments. Why would a person who only reads the initial post return to read the same thing again and again?
Claiming that some posts get more hits because they don't have comments is a perfect example of correlation not meaning causation.
As with most progressives, a decided inability to link cause and effect. If the narrative is what you want it to be, then that must be what reality is. If it isn't, you simply reframe the discussion, but you never adjust your position to accord with the facts.
The posts with the most hits since then? The ones with no comments.
This doesn't even make sense. How can someone decide which post to view as an individual post based on whether or not it has comments without either going right to the post, or seeing the post on the main page, where it's not necessary to go to the individual post? If there are no comments for a post, there isn't anything on the individual post page that you don't already see on the home page.
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