My Best Viewed Pieces

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Some of my pieces of writing have Viewed quite well these last few months. Here are some highlights (with abbreviated titles):

Triond: (2\3\13) Man U V Real (47 in 2 days), (8\2) Colonisation Earth Pt 3 (28 – good for a story), (22\1) Fergie (427), (21\1) Triond Tragedy (817), (21\12\12) Cheating at TT (339), (19\11) Beat Bullies (552), (7\10) Listen (661), (3\10) Single (827), (13\8) Olympics (113), (7\8) Banned (148). All but one of these were blogs\articles.

Voicesnet: Top 5 (from my author page): Champion (5931), Seashore (1166), Our Universe (1132), Look Up! (749), Dog’s Life (732) – all poems.

Recents: Ping Pong World Ch (103), Fergie (56), Single 2 (72), Censored (224), Lady Blantyre (337), Lennox Dog (191), Lifism (153), Internet Trolls (554), Serenity (story) (485), Young Chickens (poem) (693 – 6^th top on list), Circles (poem) (445).

My Blogs: Mirror, Mirror (poem) (7021), Cyberspace (poem) (993), My Triond Top 20 (blog) (43), Triond Forum Spoof (play) 165, Nemesis V Clee Sports H (blog) (34).

Hello Poetry: Circles (717), Frenetic Genetics (497), Excitement (492), Mother Nature (395), New Eden (366), A Poem (331).

Conclusions: There aren’t any really. Sure, blogs or articles get Views more readily, particularly if you find a popular topic. Sadly some have noted that “hate” pieces View well. Some on Triond write about Obama a lot...

My poem “New Eden” went viral on “Hello Poetry” but later four poems posted mainly earlier overtook it. Knock-on effects like that are quite common.

“Champion” went viral on Voicesnet but I’ve no idea why. Likewise “Mirror, Mirror” Viewed massively on my own blog, maybe because of some connection with “Snow White”. Perhaps many folk want to buy a mirror!  

As I’ve said before, on Triond it now helps if you get in the top ten on Sportales or some similar site – that gets you Lots of Views.

Unfortunately stories – my forte – do worst of all for attracting Views. Blogs are simply the best. But don’t worry. I remain convinced that it is quality that counts. Above all, I’ll always please myself. Over and Out.

More 9\3\13:

Knoji: "Which Planets for Life" (1404), "Spectral Types" (1283), "How Buy TT Bat" (1376), "TT Techniques" (1135). Grand Total - (5,200 V).

12\3\13: NB on Triond my "Beat the Bullies" piece keeps Viewing well, though no longer in the "top ten". 693 Views to press - about a hundred in a few days. Must be a useful topic to people. Keep beating those bullies!

Paul Butters


More pieces:

   http://socyberty.com/history/britain-is-too-soft/

http://authspot.com/short-stories/marooned-in-space/

http://authspot.com/short-stories/ping-pong-passion-one-2/

10\4\13 STOP PRESS: "Beat the Bullies" continues to View well on Triond! On 8\4 it had received 1383 V. Today the piece stood at 1588. 1395 Beyond Jane Views for my work recently: dominating my referring site stats. 77% of my Views are currently from the USA, with only 11% from the UK. Bullying must be a big issue in America. Nuff Said. Out.

18\4\13: "Beat Bullies" has now had 2552 Views. Healthy figures most days still.

23\4: "Beat the Bullies" - 3012 V (100 today!).

More:      http://authspot.com/poetry/any-world/

5\5: "BB" - 3887 V. Current Triond breakdown - 53% USA, 10% UK, 10% Turkey(!), 8% Germany and Russia, 5% Italy(!) and Canada.

9\5: BB - 4295.