* Not A Marvin Gaye reference
I seem to get a run on a post every so often. Not sure why. The first was one on a Paul Newman marathon of films on Turner Classic films. That one was no good a few days later. But I suddenly starting getting hits on it, anywhere from a couple of hundred a day to one memorable day where it got 1200 hits. It stands at 20,102 hits to date. That faded away then, though it still gets hits evey now and again.
Next it was a several years old post on a true crime book, BITTER BLOOD, by Jerry Bledsoe. It was a story that happened in my county and played out one afternoon that ended with a bloody end. That post has risen twice with large amounts of hits daily for a while. It now stands at 1,727.
The post piling up hits more recently, is my review of the film JOHN CARTER. For the last couple of weeks, it’s been getting a hundred + hits a day. As of this writing, it has piled up 1,447 hits.
What’s going on?
Not The Baseball Pitcher 
Every time I mention John Carter the hits go crazy too. Maybe he merits his own blog.
Several possibilities…some Big Follower blog or tweeter or something mentioned your posts…YouTube was redirecting traffic somewhat randomly recently to at least some Blogger/Blogspot blogs, and perhaps WordPress was similarly blessed…or perhaps you just excited folks (the Newman spike wasn’t around the time of his death, was it?). My piece on mediocre packaged cake rolls is easily and by far my most popular post, with over 5K hits…most of that traffic seems to be driven by people looking for Little Debbie box images. You tell me. (The biggest odd spike I’ve seen otherwise, though it didn’t last nearly as long, was people looking for Sela Ward cheerleader imagery in July…which I don’t have, but I do have some images and writing about Ward onblog.)
Not sure how blogger works, Todd. The search parameters listed on WordPress are John Carter, John Carter 2012, and John Carter movie. No particular site where they may have been directed from. Same for BITTER BLOOD.