Analysis and Laws of note Access: The Cruel Truth of 90,000 PVs. Why Did My Best Review Article Lose Miserably to 'Complaints About Presbyopia'?

When I looked at my note dashboard...

I instinctively started looking for stomach medicine, as if I had just been handed an old sales quota management chart.

Total views are approximately 92,000, with about 10,000 likes.

These are grateful numbers, but due to the sad habits of a former IT salesperson, as I stared at the dashboard, a certain truth became apparent.

It was a cruelly clear picture of the 'movements of the reader's heart'.

So, I will share the Analysis and Laws of note Access that I derived while battling presbyopia, along with actual data images.

Law 1: Review articles are just bait to attract readers

I love stationery.

Articles like the '0.5mm comparison' of Uni-ball pens shown in the image were ones I spent days retaking photos for, rubbing my eyes as they grew weary from presbyopia.

I stared at my laptop monitor and packed them with all the 'answers' readers might want to know, making them works I was proud of.

As a result, the view count exceeded 1,000, but at the time of tallying, there were only '17' likes.

In terms of dieting, this is like looking only at the 'ingredient list of the latest supplement' and leaving satisfied.

It's useful, but there's no need for 'me' as a person there.

It's the same as how even if Steve Jobs made the perfect iPhone, users don't necessarily want to exchange diaries with him (laughs).

Law 2: Self-introductions are a handshake of the heart

On the other hand, what about my 'Self-Introduction' article?

I opened my MacBook Air and spent over an hour writing it in a gritty, hands-on way.

The view count is around 500, but it received 85 'Likes'.

As for the 'Around-60 Old Man's Notebook' at the top of the image, the like rate is a staggering 35.9%.

This is not a 'handshake of the heart' with a first-time visitor from a search, but with someone who has taken an interest in me as a person.

It is an activity like pinning it to a fixed page and carefully handing out a 'business card'.

This becomes the 'fertile soil' that cultivates the trust of my account.

Law 3: Comments are born from the margin of vulnerability

The biggest takeaway from this analysis was the article at the top of the image titled '60 years old, staring with blurred eyes...'.

The view count is 335, which is quite modest even among my articles.

However, the comment exchange reached 18 entries.

Why is that?

It is because I exposed my 'true, pathetic self' just as it is.

On the day of the Eiken Grade 4 exam, I had prepared bifocal contact lenses for my presbyopia, but my eyes were so blurred from study fatigue.

Struggling with cold sweat against the tiny ovals on a mark sheet with vision as if through frosted glass.

And the ultimate moment was not having the courage to look at the exam results screen alone, so I entrusted the tapping of my smartphone to my daughter, who had come home from Kyoto.

If this article had been a flawless how-to piece like 'Former IT Salesperson Teaches! Study Techniques to Efficiently Pass Eiken Grade 4,' it surely wouldn't have received so many comments.

No one can walk into a perfectly tidy, beautiful model room with their shoes on.

But people from the neighborhood will gather at a slightly cluttered veranda where an old man is grumbling, 'My eyes are getting blurry and it's a real bother,' saying, 'I know what you mean, I'm the same way,' right?

Creating 'gaps' or 'white space' in an article that makes readers want to say, 'Congratulations!' or 'You did your best!' without thinking.

This was the magic that called forth the 'treasures' known as comments.

From now on, I intend to keep writing articles that help lift the burden off my readers' shoulders, just enough so that my wife doesn't get angry at me asking, 'How long are you going to be on that computer!'

Tonight, I think I'll enjoy some extra sweet Japanese confections and coffee, and forget about difficult numbers.

Thank you for reading until the end.

Likes and follows are my motivation!

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