{"id":205,"date":"2007-07-15T14:25:09","date_gmt":"2007-07-15T21:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=205"},"modified":"2007-07-15T14:48:49","modified_gmt":"2007-07-15T21:48:49","slug":"most-popular-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"Most popular posts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"beatlesOne of usability guru Jakob Nielsen’s The Top Ten Design Mistakes<\/a> for blogs is Classic Hits are Buried<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Hopefully, you’ll write some pieces with lasting value for readers outside your fan base. Don’t relegate such classics to the archives, where people can only find something if they know you posted it, say, in May 2003. …<\/p>\n

Also, remember to link to your past pieces in newer postings. Don’t assume that readers have been with you from the beginning; give them background and context in case they want to read more about your ideas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So to comply with Nielsen, I’ve added a popular post<\/a> page accessible from the top navbar.<\/p>\n

I haven’t paid much attention to web stats for this blog — mostly because I’m painfully aware of the shortcomings of webstats. (How many hits are we getting? is a question that I frequently get at work, as if that directly measures the impact of your web communications.) For me, a successful post doesn’t just get hits. It fosters some discussion. Or it just let’s me get something off my chest.<\/p>\n

But I got curious this weekend and went through the reports to see which postings were most visited. (Not that that necessarily means they are the most popular.) I had to do a little weighting as the older posts had a lot more hits from spam and robots. (Akismet spam filter is on pace to have deleted 50K spams comments this year.)<\/p>\n

I wasn’t surprised that some posts got a lot of visits: postings about organic lawns, global warming and gardening, helping pollinators and of course the classic Garden Footwear Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I was happy to see that some of my snarkier posts were visited often, and surprised that some of the music posts were high on the list. (After ‘Ellis Hollow blog’ and similar, the search string leading most often to the site was ‘supertheory of supereverything<\/a> lyrics’.)<\/p>\n

My favorite posts — picture dumps and bloom day scans — didn’t rise to the top. But judging from comments, they are among the most appreciated. That confirms my preconceived notion that the web is a visual medium, and gardeners looking for entertainment love to look at pictures of plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of usability guru Jakob Nielsen’s The Top Ten Design Mistakes for blogs is Classic Hits are Buried: Hopefully, you’ll write some pieces with lasting value for readers outside your fan base. Don’t relegate such classics to the archives, where people can only find something if they know you posted it, say, in May 2003. … Continue reading “Most popular posts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}