Since my last post about the huge spike in this site’s visitors and views (up over 500%) I’m pretty sure that it’s not my content but another, more malicious, activity causing my sudden popularity. I’ve learned more about internet bots, sometimes called spiders and crawlers, systematically browsing the web for content or (in my case) looking for vulnerabilities in old blog posts. I’ve contacted WordPress who helped me to arrive at this conclusion. I’ve deleted some of my old posts which were receiving thousands of hits, and, for the time being and until this issue is resolved, I’m going to use my Substack newsletter for blogging. I’ve already begun the National Year of Reading by publishing notes from my reading journals over there.
As always, thank you for reading and bye, for now (or see you at Substack).
Josephine Corcoran 