Experiment Failed?

​I posted my last blog on Wednesday 6/29/16, thirty-five days ago.  My primary reason for not posting in July was in response to my inner writer, feeling the need for a break from writing a weekly blog.  As I closed the article I wondered what would happen to my readership if I didn’t post a weekly blog.
I have talked with many writers who have a blog as part of their website.  All agree that very rarely do we receive comments on our blog.  I do receive these bizarre automatic comments that show up in my e-mail, not on the comment section of my website.  The automatic responses are often nonsensical and clearly coming from some non-English as first language source.  If I could figure out a way to block them, I would.
About half way through July I lost the ability to access my website visitation statistics.  I felt the fickle finger of fate point as me, just when I wanted to learn what would happen to page visits, I couldn’t get the report.  I called the technical support staff at Ipage.com and thought we had agreed on a solution to the problem.  I received an e-mail informing me that the problem was solved.  I went to check the stats and I was still blocked.  As it turned out the person I talked with didn’t understand the problem at all.  I blamed my poor communication for the failure.
I then exchanged a number of e-mails with the technical support staff because, as a writer, I could express myself better with the written word than with a conversation.  Finally, toward the end of the month the fix worked and I had access to my numbers.
In June I had 7202 page visits and July 9461.  In the explanation of the metrics suggest is tracking page visits as the most accurate assessment of individual visitors.  From June to July I had 31% more page visits.  My assumption that blogs attract page visits is clearly wrong.  Who knows what attracts page visits?  I will continue to blog, because I enjoy the writing, not sure if it will be once a week.
It is a complete mystery to me who all the people are visiting my page.  I do know that they don’t buy my books, if only 1% bought books it would be nice, not a best seller, but nice.  Goodreads advertising suggests a response rate of 0.4%, so based on June visits that would mean selling 28 books.  My sales are zero.  Oh well, back to writing and no more WHINING.