I noticed an uptick in the number of viewers I had on my blog since last December. The number of viewers have doubled and I am promoting pretty much the same way, in fact, since I have seen more viewers I have actually been promoting my blog less — so why are their more viewers?

While I would like to think that the world is finally catching on to my verve and wit, I found the doubling a little suspect. This prompted me to give a deep dive into the statistics that World Press provides for me. What I learned was perplexing. See below:

Most of my new viewing traffic comes from Hong Kong and Singapore. I know no one from Singapore and only a few people from Hong Kong, and I am betting neither person is a big reader of my blog, so what is happening in Hong Kong and Singapore?

Don’t get my wrong I would be happy to entertain more viewers from those places, I just think it is unlikely that this is where I would catch on as opposed to North American and Europe where I actually know people who might read my work.

Could this be the result of AI bots located in those locations reading everything on the net including my humble blog and then pumping up my statistics without involving an actual human being. This is my suspicion, does anybody else have a good explanation? And, does