Sunday, December 2, 2012

What Is Your Most Viewed Post?

A Mockingbird, The bird is gray with lovely white patches on the wings. This bird will sing before the sun comes up. And if you don't believe me, ask my sister-in-law, Ellen!


 

Thanks so much for all the great comments on my last post about birds! Of course, my followers would love birds too!  I was very excited to see Paul's comment from New Zealand and to find the tui bird that he was speaking of just by doing a search on the Internet!  And please, if you get a chance, go and look at his AMAZING photos from New Zealand.  What a beautiful spot on this Earth...  you may find Paul's blog here!

Now, I have been meaning to ask this of all of you for quite some time.  What is your most viewed post?  Would you say it is your best post? Why or why not?  Tell me, I really want to know!
I was amazed to see how many would get to my blog by typing these words:  "Bird with orange beak".  For the longest time, that was my most viewed post, the post entitled "When Penguins Fly" where I had a funny BBC video of penguins but I also talked about the birds in my backyard (bird with orange beak is a cardinal, it must be confusing if you see a young one before it turns the bright red that everyone knows it by.)  Lately, for some reason, my post about Richard Jewell has surpassed the bird post. Is someone writing a book about him or perhaps a movie is in production about him? For whatever reason, that post still has a lot of views every day.

 
Now, I must tell you that my small post from last year entitled "Christmas Cartoon and Poem" is now my most viewed post!  It must be that people are starved for humor at this time of year.  That is the only thing I can think that would make hundreds view that little post within the same week! And if you want to see some funny cartoons, check out Martha's blog at Plowing Through Life...I love the one she has showing Santa's list on the side of her blog.  You may find her at www.plowingthroughlife.blogspot.com   Hey Martha, here is a cartoon that you might have missed!

Now, you may ask me what is MY favorite post?  Honestly, they are like my little babies and I have loved writing every one of them, so I can't really choose, but I can tell you that writing of my Dad's memories of Berlin just after the war, and the guest posts from my husband and from my son are very special to me.  And I am really glad that I wrote that piece about Richard Jewell also. My husband has taken some of the BEST photos and he lets me use any of them that I want for my blog!  My posts might not win a Pulitzer Prize, but every single piece that I have written means something to me, something that is worth noticing (to me)  and that is what I try to share with you all here.  It just amazes me to click on the "Audience Sources" and see how many people have viewed my blog from all over the world!  Just look at this photo that Richard took of a brown thrasher, he looks amazed that you read my blog too!  My readers are the best! Thank you for following me!  Please, do not forget to tell me YOUR favorite post on your blog and/or the most viewed post!  (And if you don't have a blog,  just tell me your favorite post from one of your favorite bloggers.)  Thank you!
Brown Thrasher, a young one.  This bird will imitate other birds just as the mockingbird does.

 

45 comments:

  1. Hmmmmm...I have no idea what my most viewed post is. I will have to check it out. Love your bird post!xo Diana

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    1. Thanks, Diana! Let me know which is your most viewed post!

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  2. Thank you for mentioning my blog, Kay! I think my most popular posts have been those with running photos and commentaries.

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    1. You're welcome, Paul! I was so tickled to find the birdsong (or birdsounds?) of the tui bird!
      You are lucky that wherever you are running happens to be in a beautiful spot!

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  3. Hi Kay! Just this week I added a Popular Posts listing on the right side of my blog. The most common Google searches I get are "original birth announcement ideas" and "love letter to my child". But my top post BY FAR is Sophie's Wild West birthday party ~ someone pinned the cardboard Western town on Pinterest so I get tons of hits on that post. My favorite post of all is this one ~ http://www.audreygoeslocal.blogspot.com/2011/10/what-we-leave-behind.html. Probably because it's so intensely personal. It probably got all of 2 or 3 views but it probably says the most about me. But there are so many about my girls that I love. It's really hard to choose only one. The one I worked the hardest on was the one about encouraging your child to read (not sure if you remember it!). But I do also love the one about Sophie and I cleaning up the beach. I love my blog. And I love yours too!!!

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    1. I saw your Western theme party and it was FANTASTIC!
      And the one of encouraging your child to read post and the one of you and Sophie cleaning up the beach, I know and remember both of those!
      I tried to get to your post "What We leave behind" and couldn't get there. I looked at the posts from October 2011, oh wait, I might have been in 2010, I will look again tonight!

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  4. I started blogging as a journal tool..and I put my posts into a book after my final one on Dec.31st..every year. I love looking at the books and I'm not sure how many hits any post has received. I can't even pinpoint a fav..but if I think of one, or maybe I just haven't written it yet..I'll let you know! That Christmas sweater made me laugh because I used to have a ton of them..no more, thank goodness!

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    1. That's interesting to have all your posts made into a book. Is it very expensive? The English couple, Joy & Henry, printed the post that I did about them. I wish I had spent more time on it now!
      Yes, those Christmas sweaters, oh my, I had some of them too!

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  5. By far, my most viewed post was "The Mouse Highway". It was -17 degrees and I had left some cracked corn out for a cold and hungry jackrabbit. You guessed it - the mice got it, lol.
    My favorite recent post was "A Beautiful Day" from when we did a carriage drive with dear friends.

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    1. Oh, I would like to read them both. You don't have a search engine on your blog, tell me when you wrote them and I will read them!

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  6. My most-viewed post is for my Ribbonberry crochet tutorial - it's currently at ... hold on, have to go check ... 16,820 views. (Good grief! Most of my posts get less than a hundred views - although the crochet patterns typically get more.)

    My favourite post? Probably either "The Virus and the Tissue Box" or "Micawber's Law".

    What a very gorgeous header photo! :)

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    1. 16,820 views! Good Grief is right!
      I will have to go and find your favorites. I like the way you write!
      And the header photo was from Alexander Lake at Panola Mountain from Sunday, Dec. 2nd!

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  7. i can't honestly can't think of my favorite post. but i think many of my best posts have been because of a (my) broken heart, from which i am finally recovered (ing).

    i laugh sometimes, kay, because the posts i like the most may not get the response i'd hoped for and the posts i whip together fast often do.

    love
    kj

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    1. kj,
      We are so much alike it scares me!
      I will work and work on a post and hardly any response.
      Then, the one that I do off the top of my head, will get the most comments! Funny old world!
      Love to you,
      KAY

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  8. Dear Kay,
    checking on my current blog stats reveals that my most viewed post still is "Dear Dashboard", even though it is not up-to-date anymore; many new blogs have been added to my reading list since then, while some others have sadly been abandoned by their authors.
    That one is followed by one of my Mum's guest posts, the one about her being a sock-knitting maniac :-)
    Like you, I treasure all my posts and find it hard to decide on a favourite out of the nearly 400 I have written since starting my blog. Maybe "How The Cat Lost Its Thumbs" is my favourite, it is a short story I wrote based on what my sister and I made up many years ago.
    On your blog, I love all the posts about your family in England, about your Dad and about Arabia Mountain - in short, I love ALL your posts :-D

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    1. I love your story, "How The Cat Lost Its Thumbs"!
      I really love the posts where you go and see places that I have very little chance of seeing in my life!
      I also enjoy the ones where you show us a new outfit or the view from your window. And I love your Mum's guest posts too. So, I think I like all your posts too! :-) (Oh, and I forgot to say how excited I was to learn that you have real candles on your Christmas tree! Even if it did make you get needles on you as a baby!)

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  9. Hahahaha...yes, I missed that cartoon. And it's a good one! Thanks for mentioning my blog :)

    My most popular post, surprisingly enough, is one about trivia about the human body. Not sure why, but maybe students doing research for school work might be boosting that page's numbers. Whatever the reasons, it has surpassed the other pages by the thousands. Amazing!

    If that page didn't exist, then my post titled 'Weapons Of Choice For The Zombie Apocalypse' would have been in the number one spot. That doesn't surprise me since zombies are such a popular topic these days.

    Hmmmm...my favourite post.... I'm not sure. There are so many, and I don't really have a favourite, but if I had to pick one, it would probably be the one I wrote about introverts.

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    1. You're welcome! I love the "misunderstood" list for Santa, I am on that list!
      Wow, the thousands! I would be so tickled!
      I remember reading the Zombie post, methinks you write a lot about Zombies, do you promise me that you aren't one? JUST KIDDING!
      When was your one about introverts? I would like to read it!

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  10. http://denzilpugh.blogspot.com/2011/05/where-wild-pixels-are.html ... Most viewed post, dealing with the video game for Where the Wild Things Are, I analyzed the monsters in the film with the personality traits in Max. It's viewed the most because of the pictures I used, which are searched for on image search a lot. My next most viewed one deals with the Twitter issues of Disney child actor Davis Cleveland, whose opinions on Demi Levato's criticism of his show landed him in an onslaught of visceral girls sending him death wishes (and this to a 9 year old). I compared it to the actions of the boys on Lord of the Flies, with the Internet being the island: http://denzilpugh.blogspot.com/2012/03/davis-cleveland-and-chaos-of.html

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    1. Denzil, Are you sure you're not a teacher? This sounds like a lot of hard work to me!
      Two books I really liked: Where The Wild Things Are and Lord of the Flies. The first one scared me when I was a kid (the monster pictures) and the second one scared me when I was a teenager (the absolute truth of the depths that mankind can go.)
      Thanks so much for you comment here and letting me know which of your posts are the most viewed. Please, visit and comment again! (I promise not to call you a teacher again.)

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  11. Hi Kay, I did a post back in Nov 2/10 entitled "In Honour of the Owl" that has far surpassed any other post for 'hits' - it's head and shoulders ahead of every other post I've ever done. Go figure. My personal favourite was when I posted a pic of myself in my housecoat, sun hat and rubber boots "Doesn't Everybody Garden In Their Housecoat?" hehe! I love all your posts from Arabia Mountain - it's fast becoming one of MY favourite places to visit :)

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    1. Hee Hee, only you would do a post about yourself in a housecoat! ;-)
      I will look at that one up about the owl, I love owls too!
      So happy that you love our Arabia Mountain too, my readers of my blog might know more about it than the people who live around me, isn't that funny to think of?

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  12. My most popular post is one on Orlando Bloom & Miranda Kerr. My favourite is the one on Donald Trump's Hair. You write in such an engaging way and your enthusiasm really is infectious, Kay.

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    1. Oh! I know both of those posts that you mention here!
      You have the FUNNIEST posts, oh my, I almost fall off my chair laughing, honestly, I can't drink coffee and read your blog at the same time!
      Oh, to say that I write in an engaging way and that my enthusiasm is infectious... oh wow, you have made my day! Thank you so much, that means a lot to me from someone who writes so well! You are not a sulky kitten, you are the sweetest, most intelligent kitten I know!

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  13. Hi Kay, I love all of your post, you always have pretty photos, but I like your Arabia Mountain posts probably the best. I like the bird posts too! I don't know what mine are, but bloggers like the vintage toys I post!
    Have a good week, Dorothy

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    1. Thank you, Dorothy. So happy that you like Arabia Mountain too! And my birds.
      I love your vintage toys too. Tiny Tears Doll, oh my goodness, how much I loved mine!

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  14. Well, i have no clue what my page views are or why, and i'm amateur enough not to know how to check.

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    1. Dear Mimi,
      I didn't know how to do it for the longest time, and it didn't matter, since hardly anyone knew of my blog!
      Here's how to see: In upper right corner, click on "Design", then on the left side click on where is says "Stats", then underneath that it will say "Audience" and "Traffic Sources". The Audience will tell you the countries that have visited and "Traffic sources" will show you what has been typed into a search engine to arrive at your blog. Fascinating to see where people come from to get to you!

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  15. My post entitled, A Young Man in the Woods, gets loads of hits; I've just realised, it probably sounds rude, lol. Other than that the ones I do about churches seem to get the most views.

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    1. I remember the one about "A Young Man In the Woods"!
      And I also love all your posts about churches. I really love your post about the American Cemetery and also the one about the American pilot who crashed his plane and saved the town and the young girl who witnessed it and was able to get something done to commemorate it in the town. I also love your walks. You have the best blog!!

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  16. Great pics of birds. You are lucky to have so many visit you! Spammers visit my blogs mostly!

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    1. Thanks! And I am afraid that I am getting some more visits from unwelcome sources too.

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    2. Christmas sales bring out the spam.

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  17. I feel humbled by the numbers everyone else is quoting. My whole blog has only had 503 views and most of that was spam when I started out in July. My most viewed post is called Mystery guest about a common-spotted orchid I found in my garden and it's a complete mystery as to why. My own favourite is probably about Bonfire Night black peas as I enjoyed researching and writing it - and sampling the results! x

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    1. You only started in July, so remember that, and just have fun with your blog!
      I remember your Bonfire Night peas post! That was the first one that I read of yours! It's a very good one!

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  18. This is a great post! It is very interesting what people searching for.. I made a post last year after finding so much strangs thing people search before they land at my blog.

    Then and now I think my post from when I visit Chernobyl and Pripyat still is my most visited.

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    1. Thanks for your comment. Belated happy birthday wishes to you, hope you had a nice day. I will try to find your posts on Chernobyl and Priyat.
      I love what you wrote on your post where you said, "My hope is, that I can the light for someone who needs it."

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    2. Oh, I left out a word, it should be "I can BE the light for someone who needs it."

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    1. I think that your comment was spam. If it was not, then I am sorry, but I did not click on the link that you gave.

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    2. Any anon post with a link is spam. The language is usually falsely friendly also.

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    3. Thanks, Adullamite! I thought it was, but just in case, I didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings.
      That's funny, I don't get much spam but my Christmas cartoon is really getting a lot of views!

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  20. Oh that's so easy. Anything you write of photograph about Stone Mountain. I just love seeing and reading about it. Quite a magical place. One day, before the zimmer controls my life - I am not expecting to have to use one any day soon I might add - I would like to walk up it just one more time.

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    1. Oh, yes! We will pull and push each other up! There, that is an image, isn't it? :-)
      We LOVE Stone Mountain, and YOU know that pictures just don't do it justice!
      (And I know that a zimmer is what we call a walker here in the USA. Aren't you proud of me for knowing that?)

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  21. Thank for mentioning the seasonsfullcircle.blogspot.com, I myself find many ideas there.

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