A few days ago I talked about the statistics of visitors to my blog. What would happen, I mused, if my little blog was suddenly caught up in a click frenzy on a popular site?

The day before yesterday, a little story about Kenton Stufflebeam, the 11-year-old boy who discovered an error at the Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institute. I dashed off a little post about how he was a copywriter in the making.

The next day the page views for that post started to climb as Yahoo and others ran stories about Kenton. And I was playing around a little on StumbleUpon, and I bookmarked my own Kenton Stufflebeam post (which I’m sure is a social networking no-no).

WHOA! All of a sudden, my stats had doubled. Then tripled. I figured there was a glitch in the statistics. But then I saw that hundreds of people were viewing the blog post about the famous little nit-picker (and I say that in admiration). Final tally: 696 visitors yesterday.

Ummm. Well. Nothing really happened because of it. I didn’t get contacts from around the world asking for my autograph. No one wrote to offer me a copywriting job. Nothing really changed but those numbers.

I guess the moral of the story is that … well…. what is the moral? I don’t think the people who stopped in for a peek were really looking for a long-term relationship with Life on Avenue Z. They just stopped by. And then they left. Most of them didn’t follow another link or even check out the “About” page. Thus, I’m concluding that although my numbers were up, the value of those numbers means nothing since none of the visitors stayed around.

Oh well. Back to my wonderful (small) family of blog readers. I guess I won’t worry about fame and fortune until next week.

Happy Friday.