I hope you are all enjoying spring so far, I am and I've had an idea. I thought it would be fun to find out from my fellow bloggers what their most popular blog post has been since they began blogging - it would be an interesting way of trying to work out why some posts fly and seem to be really popular and some get read by just a handful of people and then never see the light of day. I also want to create a really cool list if enough people post theirs - so think of it as a way of promoting your best post too :)
I'll start the ball rolling but I'm really looking forward to finding some fascinating blog posts so please do add a comment with your own results (you don't need to share the figures, just the link) I know it wont be terribly scientific as some of us have 2 regular readers and others have 1000's but it will still be interesting to see what does well for people and should make for an interesting discussion and list of posts.
To find which is your most visited blog post, you can use google analytics. Use a content search and change the dates so it takes into account every post you have ever written and see what is top. Or if you started blogging after June 2010 then you can use the stats on blogger, just click 'all time' and then see what comes up as top.
I'm going to share 2 of mine - They are both tutorials that do really well on google.
The first is my tutorial for adding a link bar to blogger - I posted it back in September 2009, it's still gets lots of hits and it's actually top for a search on google for 'adding a link bar'. I used to promote this lots on places like the Folksy forum and I also made sure I responded to comments on there but now it just trickles visitors in. It's the post that really got me interested in learning more and more about html and sharing little blog template hacks to make our blogs look cool.
The second is my purse tutorial - again this does really well in google and was published almost extactly a year later in September 2010 - it's actually doing better than the link bar tutorial so I don't think it will be long before it takes over :)
They probably aren't my favourite posts just because they have done the best, although I am very proud of them. Clearly they attract visitors and so they help get people over to see me and hopefully a few follows or a squiz at my (empty) shop. I think tutorials do that and they enable you to use keywords and offer something back which helps attract visitors and gives them a good reason for looking around or subscribing.
So those are my all time most popular posts but what are yours - please share the links as a comment and I'll collect them up and add them to a super list which I'll blog next week or whenever I have lots to share :)
Hilary :) - @haptree
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23 comments:
great idea.
my most popular was a fairly average post, view wise, and got no comments. Then a few months later something strange happened with google, and it still gets 10's of hits everyday. If you can tell me why, I'd love to know! it's http://rachelluciejewellerydesigns.blogspot.com/2010/09/thoughtful-thursday-art-deco-eye-candy.html and seems to get visitors from all over the world via google. Weird! I don't think I can claim it's my marvellous post writing. My best guess is that it's coming up in google image search due to the way I named the picture. Good SEO tip :)
Rachel - I suspect the phrase eye-candy may have something to do with it ;) My most popular post was from May last year when I blogged about the launch of Forest Flower http://anthea-talesfrommountpleasant.blogspot.com/2010/05/forest-flower-launches.html It still gets regular hits on a daily basis thanks in part, I think to being linked up with a Folksy blog post on craft fairs. The second most popular one was, unsurprisingly, the Handmade Christmas Giveaway!
Anthea x Forest Flower
Hiya, My popular post this month is from a few weeks ago, it was to do with the Scottish Bead Fair, still averaging 15 plus hits a day and 18 individual comments :)
www.silverthistlebeads.com/blog/scottish-bead-fair-march-2011
Pop over and have a look when you have time :-)
Francesca
Fabulous idea! My most popular post was actually from yesterday, which shocked me slightly. I posted about how I converted our living room drapes from grommet to pinch pleat:
http://ellivenstudio.blogspot.com/2011/03/drapes.html
There have been a few others that came close, but the drape post definitely brought in the most traffic to date!
My blog doesn't exactly get massive hits, but this post was popular for a while:
http://baggieaggie.blogspot.com/2010/09/well-hello-big-boy.html
Hope it gives you a laugh!
Rosie. x
Great idea.
My blogs favourite post/page at the moment is where fellow crafers or followers can upload pictures of thier cat and link it to thier blog or shop if its cat related. Thus providing a link exchange, but also created a lovely gallery of Cratfy Cats. http://egyptianinspirations.blogspot.com/p/crafters-cats.html
According to Blogger stats, my post with the most hits was a giveaway I did last month - I joined in with the annual 'One World, One Heart' massive international blog-hop giveaway.
http://topfloortreasures.blogspot.com/2011/02/giveaway-one-world-one-heart-2011.html
Mine is about folksy love, or well, what shops other folksy sellers love!
http://bootiesbydannie.blogspot.com/2010/07/folksy-friday-folksy-love.html
My most visited blog post is a piece I did about Beach Art: http://www.artful-adventures.co.uk/2010/07/27/beach-art/ - somewhat ironically because none of it was mine. It did so well because it was the first post I had featured on the Crafty Crow. My stats soar whenever I have anything featured on there!
Great idea for a post!
Bizarrely, my most visited is a post I did about the Ikea Domsjo sink. I started my blog before I was ready to start my business (because I'd heard blogs were great for helping new websites) and blogged about doing our new house up to start with. The kitchen sink post still gets hits most days and has twice as many as the next one down. If only I sold sinks, I might be wealthy now!
Well I had to go check this out, and mine by far was the wedding dress collaboration I did last year, which is really nice to know as it was nervey work indeed! The Bride and wedding were fabulous totally worth it.
Sami.
http://teasemade.blogspot.com/2010/07/wedding-birds-meet-wedding-dress.html
It didn't have a *HUUUUGE* amount of hits but it's the one with the most... http://marthamoopette.blogspot.com/2011/02/competition-name-birdy-mrs-oswald-owl.html AND with it being a competition, it's quite understandable! I'd love to know the secret to lots of steady flowing traffic... one day ... one day...
Bedtime for me methinks! :~}
What a fab idea! My most visited post is my interview with Pussy Galore http://konniekapow.wordpress.com/2010/07/11/folksy-celebrities-pussy-galore/ and then A Day in the life of Dolly Kapow! http://konniekapow.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/crafting-adventures-a-day-in-the-life-of-dolly-kapow/ I moved my blog from blogger to wordpress though several months ago and my blogger site still seems to get the most hits although I never promote it!
I was right, it was one of my polymer clay tutorials: http://carefordcreations.blogspot.com/2010/07/how-to-make-polymer-clay-klimt-cane.html
I say 'one of', actually, I think it's the only tutorial!
Hi there, thought I'd join in - I think I got a lot of hits following a couple of different forum links to my egg cosies:
http://tamarajayne.blogspot.com/2011/01/dress-up-your-egg.html
this one was mine, quiet little place my blog, compared to yours it got 143 views in a day
http://amyorangejuice.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/launched-my-boat/
Love this idea.
Mine are so different, really bizarre! The first is a round up of the best iGoogle gadgets, http://randombloggingsofawannabe.blogspot.com/2010/07/eighteen-of-best-gadgets-for-igoogle.html
and the second is a look at Bakerella! http://randombloggingsofawannabe.blogspot.com/2009/07/bakerella-pound-cake-and-petit-fours.html
Hello Hillary,
I recently posted about my under $500.00 farmhouse kitchen restyle. That post got over 2,000 hits and for me that is a lot!
http://theemptynest-janet.blogspot.com/2011/03/stick-fork-in-meim-done.html
Also my post on my very first slipcover attempt got a huge number of hits
http://theemptynest-janet.blogpsot.com/2011/03/my-slipcover-journey-or-i-get-by-with.html
Great post idea...this is fun and I will checking out all these cool post above.
janet xox
http://theemptynest-janet.blogspot.com/
PS...i really need to do that header bar thing!!!! Is it that easy??
PS.....was wondering..when you are in your blog making edits to an active post, if someone is reading it at the same time..what do they see? Does it go inactive while you make your changes or is all that behind the curtain so to speak. Does my question make sense???
janet xox
Hey there, eeeeeeeeek what a supa dupa idea.
Well I've not been blogging long (beginning of the year really) and I've been getting so so hits/comments which is amazing. But yesterday since I posted "Welsh Delight..." I've had reet flurry of blog hits. This post is actually currently in 3rd place, but it's on track to becoming first.
This is my current blog post leader "Yarns, yarns...". Here's the link: http://www.whitejanuary.co.uk/2011/02/yarns-yarns.html
Cheers, Ionwen XXX
I do love that blogger have added a statistics feature, very interesting to see all the information. My most viewed post is a post I wrote last year about living willow structures.
http://stoneartblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/living-willow-structures.html
These are all really fab, I'll get on and write 'em all up into a nice list of the best blog posts ever (well sort of!)
Janet - they wont see changes until they refresh your page and until you have clicked save.
It's interesting that Vic's Klimt tutorial was her most viewed, as mine was too!
it's at
http://averilpam.blogspot.com/2010/03/klimt-cane-polyer-clay.html
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