The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for my blog. Let me give you a few statistics first.
Total Views
Total views on my blog were about 28,000 compared to 19,000 in 2014.
I hit my all-time high of 395 views in one day on December 6th with my post Happy St. Nicholas Day – de Kleeschen kënnt op Eechternoach.
Viewers came from 84 countries compared to 68 in 2014. Most visitors came from the United States with Luxembourg and Germany not far behind.
Comments
Thank you, Amy Cohen of Brotmanblog: A Family Journey for being my most active commenter.
Followers
I now have 126 WordPress and 45 email followers.
My top 5 posts during the year
- Black History Month: The Slaves of James SIMS, Part 1
- The New FamilySearch – I’m loving it!
- James SIMS (1754-1845) Pioneer of Nicholas County, West Virginia
- Happy St. Nicholas Day – de Kleeschen kënnt op Eechternoach
- Slave Name Roll Project: RELEASING Judy, Beck, Dick, and Mourning
It was no surprise my top post for 2015 was the first of three parts on the slaves of my ancestor James SIMS for Black History Month.
Surprisingly two posts written on a whim and at the last minute, post #2 about my loving the new FamilySearch and post #4 Santa Claus’ visit to my hometown, were in the top 5. The first got most of its traffic through Twitter while the second made our local newspaper site which linked to my post. The report asked permission in an unexpected phone call. 🙂
Post #3 is a piece I originally wrote in 2002 and added to my blog in 2014, backdated to 25 August 2013 when it was last updated.
Top 5 search terms
- william clonch was gunsmith in wv 1860o
- opening doors in brick walls
- why did william wilmore leave amherst county virginia in 1805
- wood family of monroe, greenbrier & fayette county
- mcgraw family of fayette county wv
Johnny Cash brought traffic to my blog with these search terms
- johnny cash family tree
- did johnny cash have a coisin named dodlrothy
- who was johnny cash’s great grandfather
- johnny cash ancestors
- ancestry of johnny cash
- johnny cash’s family tree
- johnny cash 4th cousin
- who are johnny cash’s ancestors
- johnny cash geaneology
- johnny cash’s relatives
- johnny cash’s ancestors
- johnny cash ancestry
- johnny cash paternal ancestors
- johnny cashs grandmother
- johnny cash genealogy
- johnny cash ancestors on line
- johnny cash cousins
Click here to see the complete report.
Thank you to all my followers was making 2015 such a great year!
© 2016 Cathy Meder-Dempsey
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I have wordpress.com and they sent me an email with the link to the report. You can also do the same thing with your statistics. I had already checked my top posts and search terms (they weren’t included in WP report) before I got the email. Thank you Amy.
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Hmm, I didn’t get the email. That’s the second email I didn’t receive—the other was from a friend who called when she hadn’t heard back. 😦
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It came on the 30th. I tried this https://brotmanblog.wordpress.com/2015/annual-report and get: Sorry, this report is only visible to members of this site. So maybe you can use the link to see your report.
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Thank you! That worked for me. Wonder why I didn’t get it.
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You’re welcome. Glad it worked!
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I tried the link with 2014 instead of 2015 and could see your report from that year. There may have been some kind of activation code in the email. I know once I was on my page with the report I had the option to keep it public or make it private.
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Thank you!!
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