WordPress.com Stats 2009, Content for a Convergent World
At the Marketing over Coffee blog, Christopher Penn provides helpful tips on how to create a top 10 list for year end blogging. According to Penn, these lists are very popular and an easy way to generate traffic.
Using Google Analytics on WordPress.org
Check out Penn’s post for steps on how to use your Google Analytics traffic stats to identify your top content. While there, make sure to review the top 10 Marketing Over Coffee posts from the past year.
You might also like to swing by the First Time Visitor’s page, where you can subscribe to the weekly Marketing Over Coffee podcast, an informative internet radio program (podcast) that covers both classic and new marketing.
Using the WordPress.com Stats Feature
If you’re a WordPress.com (as opposed to a WordPress.org) user, you probably already know that Google Analytics is not available at this time, on your WordPress.com blog. Instead, you can use the free Stats feature, which tracks every time a visitor views a URL on your blog. (For more steps on viewing your year-end blog stats, see the WordPress.com Support topic.)
Note: When considering traffic stats, remember that WordPress.com Stats show the views, while Google Analytics show the visits (see the Aytemir post, WordPress Stats twice as good as Google Analytics?).
Based on my WordPress.com Stats, here are the Top Posts and Pages for 2009, at Content for a Convergent World.
Top Ten Posts for 2009
- Peer Review Checklist for Writers
- On Making Your Own Game: A Parable
- About Peg Mulligan
- Social Media for Good: Jennifer Bechard on the Detroit Hydrocephalus WALK
- Christmas Cards for 5 Year Old Noah Biorkman
- Catch the Wave: 3rd Annual Detroit Hydrocephalus WALK (Part I)
- Digital Marketing World: Spring 2009 – Winning Against the Odds
- 50 Years Later: Elements of Style (and Life) with Strunk & White
- Understanding Audience and Purpose
- SDL Author Assistant for Adobe® FrameMaker 9
Runner Up Posts for 2009
- MarketingProfs B2B Forum 2009 ~ re:invent, re:charge, re:engage
- Understanding the Differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org
- A Collaborative Writing Model for the Social Web
- Twitter: Not Just for Conversation (also about Listening, Broadcasting, & Learning)
- Links of Note, July 2009: SEO and Search Engine Marketing ~ Google’s No Follow Change
Other End of Year Thoughts
Reflecting on my foray into blogging this year, I’m grateful for how much I’ve learned through this medium, for the ways I’ve been able to exercise my own writing voice for the first time in years, and for the small but loyal and steadily growing group of readers who keep returning here.
I’m also especially grateful to those who provided guest posts in my Live with Abundance: Social Media for Good series, including Jennifer Bechard, Marie Ennis O’Connor, and Neddal Ayad. Additional thanks to Christine Whittemore for asking me to guest post in her Bridging New and Old social media series and for including excerpts from my interview in her e-book, Social Media’s Collective Wisdom: Simplifying Marketing with Social Media.
Professionally, it was very rewarding to cross paths with Ann Handley this year on Twitter and through our respective blogs. My subsequent MarketingProfs membership and ongoing, freelance contributions to MarketingProfs Get to the Point newsletters strongly complement my social media, SEO, and blogging interests.
Completing HubSpot’s Inbound Marketing University certification was another professional highlight this year, which I would not have learned about, had it not been for blogging and social media—two sides of the same coin for me.
I remain very indebted to those who have enriched this blog through their thoughtful comments, especially from the technical writing community, including Anne Gentle, Ellis Pratt, and Sarah Maddox. A big thank you to Ugur Akinci, for recently featuring my Peer Review Checklist for Writers, at his Technical Communication Center.
My main blogging resolutions for 2010 are to set aside more time to regularly comment on others’ blogs, to become more active in online communities related to my professional interests, and to develop a greater sense of community both here, and at my newly launched Facebook page, where I plan to provide blogging, writing, and SEO tips, as well as links to posts, from others’ blogs as well as my own.
Heading into 2010, I take as my inspiration the “marketing over coffee” feel of Christopher Penn’s and John Wall’s successful podcasts, which to me are good examples of the right tone for a blog, or any social media presence, in general. As a new blogger, developing a more conversational tone is one of the things I plan to work on the most, in the new year.
If you’re a first time visitor here, welcome to Content for a Convergent World…To both new and returning visitors, here’s wishing all good things to you and yours in 2010.
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I am honored to be included on this list – many thanks! Continued sucess to you in the New Year. Marie
Thanks so much, again, for your guest post, Marie, and for all the ways we’ve shared this year. Here’s to 2010…
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