First of all thank you!
Thank you for following me and reading my blog. I know that some of you had extra time this year but it still means a lot, that out of all the blogs you could have read, out of all of the places you could have visited, you left me Likes and comments on my poetry blog.
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For those of you who like wrap up posts, like me, here are some of my stats from 2020. It is my biggest year ever!! Probably because so many of you were quarantined/locked down so many times that you had to find new material to read! I still thank you for clicking on my posts because you could have picked many other blogs to read.
Most Liked Post - Poems Painting Inside the MRI Most Liked Post - Haiku A 2020 Haiku Cactus Haiku Dry River Haiku Most Viewed Posts The definition of success by R W E. Haiku don't have titles. Tornado Haiku Top Referrer Facebook
One of the reasons that I am not going to leave Facebook is because it is my top referrer, by a lot. I have changed my main posting day from Mondays to Tuesdays and I thought because I could not post links to a couple of places that I used to link to, that I would lose followers. But I did not. I have actually kept gaining followers. Yes, some are bots, but I am gaining more than I am losing and that’s always good.
At the end of 2018 something happened and I got monthly views of over 1,000 in November and December. I didn’t get a record number of likes, but I did get a crazy number of views 9,569. Most of the views were to the post The definition of success by Ralph Waldo Emerson. The other most viewed posts, that understandably have a ton of views, are posts that explain the rules to writing haiku poems. I don’t know why the definition of success quote gets so many views, I guess people must google that a lot toward the end of the year when they are thinking about their goals. It has to be people who are not WordPress users themselves because these posts have a small number of likes but continue to be my most viewed.
I had many weeks where I did not blog this year. I even thought about giving up social media this year. But then I got more interactive followers on Instagram and I got a huge amount of interactive followers on Twitter. And I started getting more Likes here on my blog. Last month I got over 1,000 visitors again.
In 2020 I had 9,103 unique visitors and 11,763 views. I know it’s small compared to other blogs, but for doing everything for literally 0 dollars and using stock photos, I think that’s pretty darn good! I have 1,073 followers to the blog. I know that I have a few Twitter followers and Instagram followers who regularly visit my blog who don’t subscribe, but I think my numbers are really good for 1K followers.
I am really happy about it and I have decided that I will continue blogging. I may not share a haiku every week in the coming years, but I will share one poem per week. For a small blog I think it’s a good goal. I am also focusing on my artwork and that is at least three hour process, plus I have other responsibilities.
So this is my 2020 wrap up. Thank you for reading!! Please encourage your friends to read blogs, it is a unique writing form and it isn’t going anywhere!
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