A Surging Post
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (99586)
United States
March 18, 2024 6:41am CST
When you run blogs, you of course keep track of what people are reading. A lot of the time, many of the posts are not necessarily "evergreen." So, when a post from 2010 suddenly surges it makes you scratch your head a bit.
What search term is being used to pull these old blogs up?
The post in question is one which I wrote in 2010 titled, "President Obama Is Not My President." It was basically talking about a Muslim Mosque that was proposed to be built at ground zero where the 9/11 attacks occurred at the Twin Towers that President Obama supported. Something that I, of course, strongly opposed, and I think rightly so.
But why are people pulling this post up and causing it to surge? My guess is that more people are considering that former president Obama is actually the guy running the country—thus, President Obama is not my president might be an indication of sentiment as people explore their choice in 2024.
Either way, I will take the clicks for sure. But it also gives me an idea to explore the possibility of a shadow president and what that means. I mean, if THAT'S what's leading the surge of course.
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@2ndchances24 (10378)
• Cloverdale, Indiana
18 Mar 24
I don't know what blog you use but I use blogger.com
& I keep mine private & don't share them with any 1
cause people wouldn't be interested in them so why
bother, I have 2 blogger accts 1 for fish stuff & politics.
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@2ndchances24 (10378)
• Cloverdale, Indiana
19 Mar 24
@porwest It's sorta like a journal for me to keep up with.
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@porwest (99586)
• United States
21 Mar 24
@2ndchances24 I suppose that makes sense. But I want to make money. lol
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@lovebuglena (46195)
• Staten Island, New York
18 Mar 24
I always wonder why sometimes there is a surge in traffic for a specific post we publish online, especially if it happens to be a seasonal post and yet it is not that time of the year.
Do we ever truly know who is actually running the country?
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@porwest (99586)
• United States
18 Mar 24
When it comes to my blogs, I have several that are very old and, to my mind, irrelevant, that still get a fair amount of traffic. None of it makes sense to me, really. Others trending right now are a 2008 post about the GOP primaries, a post written in 2015 about the Benghazi hearings, and oil prices in 2008 in another one. And when I say "trending," I mean several hits. So, what fuels them? Hell if I know? lol. But I will still gladly take the money from them it generates—or continues to.
As for knowing who is usually actually running the country? Yes. We do. All the time. Except right now.
