DocAndersen
1. The rate to 100 views appears to have changed (I watch four authors see how quickly they get 100 views on posts) the rate to 100 has slowed for most authors on the site. There are exceptions.
2. The number of posts that have more than five comments and replies (deep comment thread) appears to be declining.
3. I’ve noticed (has anyone else?) a significant pick up in Twitter views (you find your twitter views by going to your twitter dashboard). In July I was average 120 views per tweet. (tweeting Virily concent) most of the views don’t give you Virils, but it is nice to know your work is getting viewed, right?
I have noticed some other trends as well, I keep an eye on those and will share them as they have enough data. While I have not done a quiz in a long time, it appears (please let me know in the comments) that the template is working better. We still have the annoying, select poll, load picture and before you your content in, you have to refresh the page issue.
Some writers are once again more active on the site. I am going to apologize to everyone, I am limited on time and only read between 30 and 35 posts per day. I can’t afford to spend more time than that. If I miss one of your posts, I am sorry. Nothing personal just ran out of time in the morning. I try to catch up with all the ones I’ve missed on the weekend.
The comment depth concerns me a little. It is something that impacts all of us in terms of how much revenue each post generates. That is something that I am watching and will continue to share and talk about in the future.
Bunch of poll questions as we head into fall!!
Today’s weather – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nujBwXGo0I4 link to yesterday’s weather feed.
(I share this on Mylot as well) I’ve been predicting yesterday’s weather via video time-lapse replay for more than three years now. I have yet to incorrectly predict the weather that was yesterdays! Outside right now in the DC area – 59 degrees F, no measurable rain in the last 24 hours.
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Question of
Do you follow the i don’t comment on your posts if you don’t commnet on my posts rule?
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Yes
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No
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Did you know that a 4 comment and reply thread is worth twice as Many Virils as one comment, one reply?
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Yes
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No
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did you know that you can reply to the last comment in a thread that no longer has a reply option by going to the last comment of the other author and replying to that?
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Yes
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Today is Friday, make it a great day OK?
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Yes
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No
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Do you watch the ebbs and flows of Virily traffic?
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Yes
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No
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Do you get paid by Virily?
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I have not received a Virily payment as yet. I wonder when it will come
well if you have setup paypal you have to have 10 dollars in your Virily account before they will pay.
If you did payoneer, you have to have 100 dollars in your account first.
Hummm, most of my views don’t come from twitter, some do. I get a lot of people who just come over from my blog and they can’t comment. Part of the reason I do polls is because they can participate on those. I get views from flipboard, I know because it gives me a report.
I find that very few people comment on most of my posts. (I must be a terrible conversationalist.)
Yes, I have a rule of thumb on comments. If someone comments on my post in a positive matter, I immediately go look for 5 of theirs that I have not commented on and make a comment on them. I figure someday it may come full circle if not at least perhaps they feel good about some interaction.
Yes, I like the interaction and yes I like the pennies we make. I happen to think we are stronger together.
I am typically the odd man out.
I make sure to comment, but I don’t actually do the one for one. That is interesting. I wonder if that is a more effective way (well in your case 1 for 5).
You aren’t the odd one out!
No it doesn’t work. I get very few comments. But I feel like I am doing my share.
I feel like you contribute well more than your share to our community! You have inspired me many times to think outside the box!
Q: Do you follow the i don’t comment on your posts if you don’t commnet on my posts rule?
Yes (3 votes) – 20%
No (12 votes) – 80%
Q: Did you know that a 4 comment and reply thread is worth twice as Many Virils as one comment, one reply?
Yes (5 votes) – 36%
No (9 votes) – 64%
Q: did you know that you can reply to the last comment in a thread that no longer has a reply option by going to the last comment of the other author and replying to that?
Yes (6 votes) – 40%
No (9 votes) – 60%
Q: Today is Friday, make it a great day OK?
Yes (13 votes) – 100%
Q: Do you watch the ebbs and flows of Virily traffic?
Yes (1 votes) – 7%
No (13 votes) – 93%
Q: Do you get paid by Virily?
Yes (14 votes) – 100%
There is a limit on how much I can do on Virily but I do my best to answer comments on my posts…I will try my best to do that but no guarantees…
I do enjoy reading people’s posts…
I am also under a time limit, I understand that completely!!!
I am just now getting a little free time to get back to writing, I try my best to read and comment on as many as I can, and mylot, and work 3 jobs.
Glad you are back – you are very busy and I am glad you have time here!!!
It’s always interesting the way we lean to juggle our lives to do the things we love.
The time dance makes all of us crazy!
Yes it is, Ar rimes I have to give up writing for the make a living jobs I have. Plus I am trying to get done with one part of lives work and starting the new.
i understand that, I often have to take breaks. I have 10, 12 posts stored on my PC for days when I don’t have time.
looks like my virily tweets are useless. my ebay tweets do great…
Honestly, I find similar results. I do 4 5 and more times the response for eBay than I do for Virily.
I still manage to get more than 100 per tweet for Virily most days.
It’s great that you are getting the views from twitter.
the issue is no Virils for most of them.
just views.
Oh well
still, thanks for the heads up. I love metrics…
so do I, they are not easy to get for Virily though.
back when the dashboard worked, I used them to determine content
I created my own, by literally logging in and checking my totals each morning before I did anything for the day.
that way at least i know which of my posts are working.
that’s way more effort than I care to make. but then that might be why you’re in third and I am trailing in fourth…
3rd what?
The stats check is something I do for the mover’s project. I also watch various authors to see how fast their posts get to 100 views.
for some reason I got 100 views stuck in my head.
rankings. don’t you check the rankings?
sorry I don’t check them very often. I did check based on this. the distribution of authors is interesting.
no need to apologize, it just surprised me that a metrics junkie like you wasn’t following that
what blows me away is the point distribution…
Honestly I used to watch it all the time. There really wasn’t anybody moving fast on the board for ages.
Now that there are a couple, we have to wonder if they are cheating.
metrics would say for certain, but we don’t have access
you are a wise man.
Without metrics we can’t tell. The last time there were cheaters it took almost 3 months.
you’d figure they’d want to catch cheaters in the first month to refuse payout…
There is a person moving really fast on the site right now – faster than CarolDM does, makes me nervous.
do their posts generate massive activity?
no, that is what is worrying me. They comment a lot and their posts are average to middle of the road.
I think we have a new exploit.
even if they comment constantly, at one viril per reply it isn’t going to be a big deal. if they don’t post often and don’t get a lot of traffic on the posts, something fishy is going on…
yup. something fishy. I suspect it is a variation of the draft save issue but I can’t figure it out.
if there are a ton of draft saves in their history, it should be obvious
i do not know if the admins watch that kind of stuff. I think they are swamped by other things.
the point is that they can, and should if you alert them to the possibility of fraud
Thanks for sharing the stat. You are really observant. I usually come to Virily whenever I have some time to spare, and I usually just read and write here, but don’t really spend much time watching the traffic. I really appreciate to find out so much about Virily from you and other users here.
It’s already Saturday here. Have a good weekend!
you have a great weekend as well. I try to watch the stats for short runs. Otherwise I have to cut down on the posts I read.
Plus you have kids at home – I remember those days!
Thank you, Doc for the information. Eventually, I will figure it all out right now I do as much as I can and give them bunches to review and approve so that I can come here when I have the time between my writing, looking for writing jobs, and blogging
when you get it all figured out let me know!!!!
(I am still trying)!
It is interesting what drives and doesn’t drive posts here on Virily.
Thanks for the information.
Happy to! Helping people is something I do!
Creating a quiz requires numerous refreshing and saving every question as a draft. I start by saving the post’s photo the every question. Sometimes the choices disappear. It requires patience.
ergo my not doing them any more!!!
I find polls frustrating enough!
I guess we will have to bear with the frustrations experienced here till the tech staff does something about it.
i don’t think they will at this point. It has been an issue for more than 2 years now.
Thanks for sharing interesting info. Some of the information is new to me. I would like to comment more but I am always close to the times.
It is interesting- like you I am limited on time. I try to catch up on the weekends, but that never happens.
I wonder if there would be a way for the site to help us be better readers.
Well, I know there is, but I also suspect they won’t make the changes.
As you know, I’m thinking about what I can do to make the posts more readable. So far I have not found a solution.
well that is one I have chased for a long time. I see lots of authors with wonderful stories that I figure will become trending quickly, that never move at all.
some that I look at and they are trending right away.
I was not knowing some of these things. It’s interesting, let me try and confirm on point 3.
Let me know what you find!!! I am always interested in confirming, or invalidating my information!
It is workinng and I have tried it with one of your comment threads also. 😉
cool, that is half the fun of sharing this stuff. Finding out what others discover!
It’s pretty hot for me in October. Today was a little cooler we had 24 degrees Celsius. I’m thinking of going to the beach on Sunday.
That sounds like a wonderful weekend plan! Plus, you will take wonderful pictures and share them with us!!!!
Again some very interesting topics about Virily …. we have nice warm sunny weather
Thanks pal!! Trying to help people be more successful here on Virily!
If anyone asks me, I really want to help if I can, dear friend
that is because you are a very kind person!
Thanks for your kindness, dear friend
I have to admit that I didn’t know many things. Especially for 4 communications in a row. This is useful to know.
Thanks, Doc.
the deeper your comment threads the more you get in Virils!!!!
Actually reading this very informative coverage is very fun and useful, although unfortunately I rarely touch social media these days (less often than before) for various reasons, and that’s why I missed you so much, Doc!
The air was very hot until the beginning of this week, but last Tuesday and Thursday it had rained to cool the Jakarta air, at least in part.
i have missed you, pal! I do understand the reality of time constraints!
I remember landing in Jakarta 16 years ago in a rainstorm.
Then leaving Jakarta 4 days later in a rainstorm!
I have had a about ten posts sitting in the pending list until now. I wish approvals were faster and regular during the week. The trends really don’t matter when these is no equal base level to compare.
The trends are still important for all posts live on the site! But I do understand the frustration with the moderation process.
I have a problem in assessing Twitter traffic because I alternate promotional tweets with favourite quotes, and it is the latter that get far more views! My current stats say that I have had 3 million impressions in the last 28 days, but I have no idea how many of these can be related to Virily!
I tend to do all my Virily stuff at a specific time, so I can manage that pretty easily.
I hope to have more time soon on here to comment more in depth, and f/up comments as well. I try to comment on too many posts. there are so many new members here. But I need to pace myself.
that is an issue overall I agree. So many great authors to read.
I am delighted to be able to present you with comment No. 2!
I suppose the answer to this conundrum is that interesting posts will provoke more comments than boring ones! What counts as interesting? It would seem that posts that talk about the shortcomings of Virily are always going to be interesting!
I have deep comment threads on non- virily issue posts as well. I think it depends on the people and how much time they have.
It has declined over the past couple of months.
Thank you for the tutorial! I’m checking out my dashboard right now!
The twitter dashboard is interesting – I wish it gave more time of day data.
I have a problem in assessing Twitter traffic because I alternate promotional tweets with favourite quotes, and it is the latter that get far more views! My current stats say that I have had 3 million impressions in the last 28 days, but I have no idea how many of these can be related to Virily!
you have to go find the specific post from Virily to see the impressions. That is a lot of views!