The Bloggers With The Most To Say
Anyone surprised by what your most popular posts are?
I'd been blogging for awhile before I started checking out the stats on individual posts, and I added the "Popular Posts" Blogspot gadget. I'm actually really surprised by what some of my most popular posts are. My most popular post is one I did in November 2008 about Mad Men, and although no one has commented on it at all, it has way more hits than any of my other posts. No idea why- I mean, there are plenty of Mad Men fans out there, but I'm hardly the only person writing about it.
I actually just added a "So You're New Here?" page with links to the posts I think will help people get to know me better or are the most indicative of my blog's content, since I don't think "Popular Posts" does that very well. What about you guys? Are you surprised by what people are reading the most on your blog?
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Permalink Reply by Samantha on -
I wrote one about Veronica Mars forever ago, and it gets more hits than ANYTHING else. Someone searches for "Logan Echolls is sexy" like every day, and ends up with little old me. I'm pretty sure it just has to do with the relevance of your content to more common google searches. If you look under your traffic source stats you'll be able to see both how many hits you're getting from Google and also what people searched for to find you. That helped make my weirdly popular Veronica Mars post make way more sense to me. :) Hope it helps you too!
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Permalink Reply by Katie on -
Yeah, I do that now, but I didn't back when I did the Mad Men post. Maybe there were just a lot of people looking for posts about Mad Men around that time.
I did one really short post about how I read 401(K) as "four-oh-wunk," and a surprising number of people have found me by Googling "four-oh-wunk."
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Permalink Reply by Melissa Lawhorn on -
I wrote one about a university representative saying they didn't take safety into consideration when changing bus routes. I wasn't surprised that it was popular, but I was really surprised at how many people actually took the time to comment on it. Including the idiot that said they didn't think about safety, haha.
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Permalink Reply by Kelli Shea on -
Woah! I've never even looked at my most popular post. Now I'm all kinds of curious.
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Permalink Reply by Gina on -
I'm not, really. Sometimes, one will come out of left field and surprise me, but there's usually a pretty simple explanation for it. For instance, I wrote a post and mentioned Adrian Palicki (I write about who I think should play book characters in a movie adaptation). About a month later, she was cast in the Wonder Woman TV show, and I got all kinds of traffic from people searching for her. It died off pretty quickly, but that fantasy cast was my most popular page for weeks.
Overall, though, my most popular posts are generally stuff about Harry Potter, Banned Book Week, or an irregular series I do on "Lessons Learned" from books/series/characters. And it's not that surprising. The most popular post over the last six months has been an essay on Professor Snape, which was actually written by Risha, so I can't even take credit for it!
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Permalink Reply by JNRoll (Nicky) on -
I wrote about how I was converted into a Minecraft junkie after thinking the game was, well, stupid. Drew in 1000 page views. Seriously.
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Permalink Reply by Dave on -
For some reason, this one is always in my top five most popular posts. That worries me a little, since it's probably one of my saddest stories.
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Permalink Reply by Rogue Scott on -
I've written one about protecting yourself in the sun during hot weather and how to look good when it's unexpected. This has been getting hits on a daily basis, which really is a shock. But then should it be when Sun is an all year around thing? lol But hey My Memoirs are getting the focus now which is good.
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Permalink Reply by RoB on -
Definitely. I like to think I'm funny. I try to be funny in most of my posts. Yet, 4 of my top 5 posts ever are mostly-serious rants: what am I doing with my life now that I've dropped out of college, getting a domestic partnership, hoping everyone from high school that I disliked is fat now, my thoughts on religion. WTF? Read the funny stuff!
The other top post gets daily hits from Google Image for the phrase "naked men sauna". That one, at least, is funny.
~RoB
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