Top 12 Blog Posts of 2008
Today, Michael Kwan posted his “Top 10 Blog Posts of 2008.” It seemed like a good idea to steal borrow, except I’m doing a Top 12 because #11 and #12 were so very, very close to #10. So here were mine:
- “The Long-Tail Search, or How Not to Be Such a Guy” (2008-03-01)
- “Save Money and Be Happy” (2008-09-29)
- “Hodge Podge, or What to Say to a Hot Mom in Her Used Lingerie with Obama’s Headshot Ironed On” (2008-07-27)
- “Creepy Underwear Guys Seeks Swimsuit Model” (2008-02-09)
- “How to Make $1,000,000 Blogging” (2008-01-28)
- “Money for (Almost) Nothing” (2008-07-29)
- “How to Succeed in American Business Today” (2008-10-03)
- “Success Saturday: Putting Together an eCommerce Site” (2008-07-05)
- “Some AdSense Secrets” (2008-04-16)
- “First Test Post After Upgrade” (2008-08-23)
- “Why Don’t You Want Me to Comment on Your Blog?” (2008-07-17)
- “No One is Looking for You. Sorry.” (2008-05-19)
I included dates so you can see the relative strength of certain posts that didn’t have the advantage of being up as long as earlier posts. Just look how “Save Money and Be Happy” rose to the #2 position despite being online for only about 3 months compared with 9 months for the #1 post.
The #1 post did end up with nearly double the views of the #2 post though. As did #4 over #5. The remainder were much closer.
Traffic Sources
This may be surprising to some people. Here are my top traffic sources for 2008:
- StumbleUpon
I’ve only been on Twitter since mid-August, and it already jumped to the #3 spot in my top sources of traffic to this blog! Twitter provided nearly 3 times as much traffic as the #4 source and about 6 times as much as the #5 source.
It’s important to note that I rarely tweet about a blog post. I don’t use Twitter as an RSS feed like some people do.
It’ll be interesting to see how this year shakes down in terms of traffic.
Stumble Upon?? Really! …. I don’t know if I have ever heard that before. I do know people have had explosive reactions to posts that were stumbled multiple times.
Tell me, were the hits from SU in clusters, or over a period of time?
Do you gather info from your blog host, or counters? (Do / does) … (it / they) count mobile hits?? I have nothing that tracks mobile traffic.
I noticed most of the posts having interesting titles and some are long. I have read an article about how to choose a title for our blog. Try something controversial, it will be easier to get on top in SE.