The most bizarre thing just happened to my food blog, Cafe Munchkin. I am still in a mild state of giddy shock. Hee hee. You see, some time last night and as of this writing, it occupies top spot (will you let me spell it out? Please? That’s #1! Hee hee hee!)- in the Home & Living category of Top Blog Philippines, #43 over-all. Isn’t that bizarre? I told you it was! :D
I haven’t really given much importance to whatever spot my three blogs occupy in Top Blogs, knowing for a fact that they are far from being the most read blog in the blogosphere…not even the Philippine chunk of the blogosphere! Of my three blogs, which are each in a different category, it was always Cafe Munchkin, which has enjoyed a more decent ranking, the best, if I remember correctly, being somewhere in the Top 10-15. It has always been Munchkin Mommy, however, which enjoys the most number of hits. But these (Top Blog) rankings don’t last long. It’s quite erratic, really.
Cafe averages roughly 50 hits a day, barely scratching 100 on a good day. And the most people it ever had on-line at a given time was 5, maybe 6. Yesterday, however, it got 2709 hits and 2559 as of this writing, with over a hundred people on-line at one point! What. Is. Going. On? I kept asking myself from the time I noticed my site’s unusually surreal behavior yesterday. And the visitors all land on one particular entry, Plastic Grocery Bag Origami and they’re all coming from a site, which I haven’t ever heard of, Stumble Upon (that’s living under a rock for you!).
From my simple mind’s understanding, someone “stumbled upon” my plastic folding entry and liked it enough to give it a thumbs up and recommended it to other Stumble Upon members. And that resulted to all the craziness yesterday and today. I am not complaining one bit. Promise. :) As I was enlightening myself, I realized too, that while majority liked that entry, some didn’t and found it neurotic. Hahaha. You win some most and lose some. I’m perfectly fine with that because that’s just how life is.
I apologize if this entry ended up sounding like a self-serving, self-gratifying, and self-promoting pitch. That wasn’t my intent at all. I just wanted to share my joy. Now that I’ve gotten it all out of my system, I’ll carry on now. Hee hee. *skips away* :)
