Now is the time on Crooked Road when we share blog statistics. Read on for links to the most popular posts of the month and a list of intriguing search terms that led readers down this Crooked Road. Read More
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September by the Numbers
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August by the Numbers
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It’s that time of the month again, folks – time for blog statistics! Read on for links to the most popular posts of the month and a list of intriguing search terms that led readers down this Crooked Road. Read More
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July by the Numbers
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I’m not sure why anyone besides me would be interested in reading about my blog statistics, but these “Numbers” posts seem to get read as much as any, and they’re easy, so here’s another one. The most notable number this month is that page views so far for 2014 are higher than last year’s total. So thank you all very much. Read More
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June by the Numbers
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I have heard about website ranking before, but never paid much attention. This month I stumbled across an article discussing how your Alexa Rank could affect your odds of scoring a press pass, and thought I would check it out. As in golf, the lower your Alexa Rank, the better. Anything under 100,000 is considered good. After googling “how to find the alexa rank of your blog” I discovered that this website is ranked 17,182,514. Whatever. I’ve never even heard of Alexa before anyway. Read More
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May by the Numbers
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Once upon a time, this blog was just a place to direct potential editors to see a fairly recent example of my writing. If I posted monthly, it seemed like enough. Over time, I built up a few followers anyway (thanks!) and began to enjoy the occasions when something I wrote sparked someone’s interest. As I contemplated the shift to freelancing full-time, I began to research potential income streams and avenues of writerly activity, and discovered a whole world of people who live off their blogs. Some of them are delightful and I read them every day. Many of them are awful, and I can’t imagine how gaming the SEO system to drive unsuspecting browsers to these ugly, ad-laden, content-sparse pages could benefit anyone.
I still think of this blog as a place to explore ideas without an assignment and introduce myself to potential editors, but since quitting my day job, my blog stats have begun to take on a new urgency.