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Surprising Stats From Feedburner
By JLP | July 6, 2006
I checked my Feedburner stats this morning and noticed that my All-Time most popular post is:
Wise Spending Habits for Kids – Feedburner says that this article has been clicked on 1,257 times. The second most popular article, which was only clicked 367 times, was:
Just Got Back From the Grocery Store
I think it is kind of funny (and frustrating) that my two most posts were posts that took me all of five minutes to put together. Crazy how that works.
Topics: Blogging | 4 Comments »
July 6th, 2006 at 11:21 am
Heh. I’ve always cried about how insane it is that “thrown together” posts are often the most popular. At Get Rich Slowly, my “healthy food on an unhealthy budget” post has been most popular, and that took me three or four minutes to compose. Meanwhile, posts that took me hours to work on receive little attention. At my personal weblog, I’ve noticed the same thing. I wonder if this doesn’t say something about the way our brains work: when we belabor a point, spend a lot of time fleshing it out, maybe we’re robbing it of vitality. Maybe there’s something energetic about those quick posts. Who knows?
And how are you getting these kinds of stats from Feedburner? I can’t find them. Is this part of the “pay money for stats” option? If so, what other stats do you get to see?
July 6th, 2006 at 11:36 am
No, this isn’t part of their paid service. I just run ALL MY FEEDS through Feedburner. There’s a plugin that will allow you do this with WordPress (I’m not sure about other blogging software packages).
Do you have an account with Feedburner?
July 6th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
I run all my feeds through them too…but I can’t find the kind of info you’re talking about either. Can you please point me in the right direction? Thanks JLP!
July 6th, 2006 at 12:43 pm
So far I’ve found that my most popular posts get that way because they grab good search terms, and people click through from Google or Yahoo because it looks interesting. The most popular has been the one on the economics of tattoos
I also find it amusing that when I write about silly items and I rail about how expensive they are, people searching for them are led to those articles about how you shouldn’t buy whatever it was they were looking for.