Readers who visit my blog on a regular or occasional basis may not realise the fact that the writer receives a list of daily stats telling him/her what posts have been read, the country of origin of the readers, which sites are being used to access the blog usw.
Some days you note that your readership is really low - often when your muse has been asleep for days and you have produced few or no new items.
And then there are the days when you get a far higher number of readers than usual.
It isn't usually though that you have aroused the interest of extra new people in various locations around the world. It is rather that you have awoken a robot.
There are several interesting locations for these robots, mainly in parts of Eastern Europe, but also increasingly in the USA.
The intention is to get the blogger to access the site related to the robot by pressing the link on your stats page.
In the past 24 hours I have had 41 visits from an American based robot from a site called vampirestat.com. As a trained IT professional I am not inclined, ever, to press the links to sites like this - there is always the possibility that I may well be unleashing summat rather nasty. I have had to clear viruses off here before and I have better things to do with my time.
My response, rather, is to copy the name of the site and stick it in a google search. Which is how I came to find out that a robot is accessing my material.
Anyway I hope the robots are enjoying the content of the blog and learning summat - including a few bits of Northern English vocabulary. If nowt else I try to get people to think and react and not just acquiesce.
A thinking robot - what a quaint concept. Maybe they should run for politics, I am sure that a number of political parties, particularly conservative political parties, would be only too glad to have them!
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