December Bylines
December is always a slow month work-wise, but I have a few things to share.
Published in December
I only had three articles published in December, and all of them were for Earth911.
Green Giving: Nonprofits Clobbering Climate Change
Blogging
December is slow for blogging, too. In 2017 I spent December setting up my new self-hosted URL (Spoiler alert: waste of time and money). This year I spent December doing family stuff. Anyway, I still posted 10 times in December, and a few people read them.
Visitors
Top visiting countries were all native English speakers. The U.S. dominated by a factor of 10, so I guess I’ve doing local interest right. Next came the U.K., and Canada. But there were also a lot of readers from Germany, China, and Russia.
Most people arrived here via Google search. The WordPress Android app was a distant second, followed by my author bio link on ParentMap. Facebook, Twitter and Earth911 were all roughly equal distant thirds.
Top Posts
Calling Forth the Militia – I blog about the Constitution as part of a personal education project, and don’t expect many readers to be interested in this category of posts. Good thing, too, because not many readers are. But for some reason, my top post in December was a study of this Constitutional clause that I published in April. The mind reels.
Live Theater Film Experience – You just never know what will resonate with readers. I almost didn’t blog about the time I took my family to a second-run theater to see a film of a Sailor Moon musical theater performance. But it has popped into the top three posts at least three times since it was published. Go figure.
Book Report: Through Black Spruce – This book review I wrote four years ago started performing in November and got even more views in December. I don’t know why. But it is a good book.
Searches
Icelandic online ewa and daniel – I’m glad they found this post from 2013 about the Icelandic online language program.
https://gemmadeealexander.com/samaris-question-goda-tungl/ – Sometimes I tweet out links to old posts, and I think this was one of them. But it still seems like a strangely specific search term.
ricenwine – I had no idea what this one might have referred to. So I searched for it inside my blog, and found this mommy rant from 2015. I don’t think it’s one of the old posts I tweeted, but I also try to go back and clean up old posts, fixing broken links and applying my current style guide. I think this was one of the ones I recently cleaned up.
So I guess the lesson learned from December’s search terms is that maintaining and promoting old posts is a good practice.
About The Author
GD
I'm a freelance writer in Seattle specializing in parenting, arts and the environment.