Today marks the six month anniversary of this blog. I’m proud of (and a bit surprised at) the progress I’ve made. This blog now has a Google Page Rank of 3, a Technorati rank of 29,263 (give or take since it’s constantly fluctuating), a Technorati authority of 165, an Alexa rank of 384,365 (note to self — figure out what Alexa rank means and how it works). I’ve also just been accepted by PayPerPost and ReviewMe.
Any success that this blog has attained is due to you, the reader. I know that this blog has a great and active reader base. You’ve left me 946 comments to my 144 posts. (Thank-you, thank-you!!!) I feel like I’ve really gotten to know some of you. I appreciate that you come by often and I enjoy visiting your blogs as well.
This week is going to be a busy week for me. There’s a holiday right in the middle of it. I just started a new curriculum for one client and I have a sample developmental edit due for another client.
Since it’s such a busy week, I thought it might be fun to post links to the most popular posts of each previous month. I know that some of you just started reading, so you might have missed some of these early posts.
I used two methods to determine popular posts. First, I used the number of visitors recorded on Awstats to determine which posts appeared on the days that the website received the most visitors. Second, I used the number of comments that appeared on a post.
Popular Posts By Number of Website Visitors
- January — “Ideas Possibly for Sale – An Experiment” (Note: This idea didn’t actually take off.)
- February — “Will a Company Style Guide Give Your Documents a Unified Voice” and “Why Do I Blog? Five Reasons” (There were two posts on the high traffic day.)
- March — “Where Do Your Ideas Come From?“
- April — “Dealing with Deadlines“
- May — “Of Note: getting it right for you“
- June — “Ten Reasons Why You Should Hire a Professional Writer” and “My Favorite Business Book“(There were two posts on the high traffic day.)
Popular Posts By Number of Comments
- January — “Pain and Poetry (or the irony of how life affects art)” and “Yet Another Writing Blog” (Tie)
- February — “Five Proofreading Tips That You Can Use Right Now By Yourself“
- March — “Simply Successful Secrets Meme“
- April — “Ethics in Writing (Part 1 of 2)“
- May — “Top Five Reasons To Work At Home“
- June — “Don’t Be A Stranger: Five Reasons Why You Should Leave A Comment“
I hope you enjoyed this look back at past posts!
P.S. Do you have a favorite post? Why not drop me a note and let me know what it is.
Contents (c) Copyright 2007, Laura Spencer. All rights reserved.
11 responses so far ↓
1 Joanna Young // Jul 2, 2007 at
Congratulations Laura. It’s good to highlight the milestones along the way – and good for us to see some highlights from the archive 🙂
Joanna
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3 Lillie Ammann // Jul 2, 2007 at
Congratulations, Laura! You’ve accomplished more in six months than I have in a year. Wishing you continued success.
4 Laura // Jul 2, 2007 at
Thanks Joanna!
Thanks Lillie! I’m not sure that I would say that I’ve accomplished more. Your posts tend to be longer and more detailed.
Thanks Yvonne!
5 Vivienne Quek // Jul 2, 2007 at
Congrats Laura. You are certainly doing well. 🙂
Sometimes, it’s interesting to note that a popular post is not an important post to the writer.
6 Laura // Jul 3, 2007 at
Vivienne–You’re exactly right. I was surprised at some of the posts that turned out to be popular. Other posts, that I thought were very important, were hardly read at all.
7 Matt Keegan // Jul 3, 2007 at
Great work, Laura. You can lower your Alexa score immediately by installing the Alexa widget on your blog. You’ll get credit for making the move and additional credit from people like me who visit your site and are already Alexa-widgetized.
Visit this page to make your personalized widget. Alexa updates at least once weekly so you’ll see a nice dip right away.
8 Laura // Jul 3, 2007 at
Thanks Matt! I didn’t realize adding the Alexa widget would make such a big difference. I put the widget on the right, under my Technorati badge.
9 Mary Emma Allen // Jul 4, 2007 at
Congratulations, Laura, on your achievements the past six months. I found it very interesting the way you put together your summary. Too many people focus on what they didn’t accomplish and forget to look at what they have.
10 Laura // Jul 5, 2007 at
Thanks Mary Emma Allen! I really appreciate the encouragement.
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