I was looking at the counter and the article from 2015 below. However, I hadn't figured out just how many times the counter has gone to about 2 million 500,000 since then. The counters only used to go to about 3 million or 2 million 500,000 and did this several times. This time it's 16,757,597 visits to this site on this go round.
I was inspired to write this short article by this Link that seems to be popular from 2015:
If you are just starting a blog here at blogspot (blogger.com) it's important to look at your counters. Readers mostly want to count on you sharing things useful and interesting with them. The more interests you have in common the more people will visit your site. This is just how it is.
However, when I first discovered and started to realize all of this it was around 2010 or 2011. My readership skyrocketed after the 2011 Tsunami and Earthquake that killed between 15,000 and 25,000 people in Japan and made about 30,000 people I believe move away from Fukushima so they wouldn't die from radiation poisoning.
People took me seriously mostly I think because I advocated everyone in Japan or closer to the U.S. getting geiger counters and crowdsourcing as a way of surviving Fukushima then. Then my dentist told me that his daughter was teaching English in Japan and got Thyroid Cancer from Fukushima which was interesting too then. However, now she has recovered and lives in Hawaii and I think my dentist retired there too now.
So, people respecting your positions also helps with readership too and them feeling they can trust what you are writing and blogging about and sharing with them. This is how your site grows over time.
Also, people are passing on all the time so new readers often join your site as time goes on too and also younger people start discovering your site too. All the comings and goings usually go in waves by the way. HOwever, I have had as many as 1 million people visiting this site in a single month over time. As the world changes you as a blogger change too so there are many variables to consider.
One of the big ones is that I do all this for free. I don't put any adds at this site unless I cannot usefully separate something I'm quoting from a built in add that won't scrub out through the encoder. Many advertisers make it so that if you try to scrub out their adds the whole article disappears now. So, I do whatever I can to make this site add free since I don't have to get paid for any of this because I'm okay financially. So, for me I'm okay to do all this for free as a public service because I think it is useful both to me and to others worldwide. I think sites like this help keep people alive and informed in many different ways.
