Lilahpops

This is my entry in the Blog Statistics - Most Popular Project

Tibor has announced the second part of his Blog Statistics Project over at photonovice.net. He asks: what is your most popular post and why do you think it generated so much interest? did it create a lot of discussion in the comments and has it made you change the way you blog, or even how you photograph?

My website is just under a year old and although I don’t receive many comments on my posts, I am finding that web traffic is slowly but surely increasing. It’s true what they say, it won’t happen overnight.

What are my most popular posts?

The first part of the project told me a little about my readers and what you are looking for. So, I checked out my stats again. Not only do they tell me what you are looking for here at Lilahpops, but it seems you might have also found what you were looking for.

For this project I’m focusing on the Top 3 posts. Part one revealed you have been searching for vintage cameras (namely, the Voigtlander) and iPhoto tips. Two of my Top 3 posts are part of my iPhoto series:

Top 3 Posts

• 1. Add special effects to your images with iPhoto
• 2. How to resize an image in iPhoto
• 3. 8 simple steps to add your Flickr photos to your blog feed

Let’s break that down a bit more

Number 3

Not about iPhoto or vintage cameras: this post made the front page of photographyvoter.com; got stumbled; and received links from both Tibor at photonovice.net and Antoine at All Day I Dream About Photography. It got a huge spike in traffic as a result. While this post still receives visits, the interest has leveled off. However, I’ll add here that the readers who visit this page are interested in the content - each reader staying for an average 3:38 mins. It’s not a simple click-in and click-away post.

As an aside, I have to say that adding my Flickr photos to my blog feed has been insanely useful this month. I’m participating in the April Challenge, taking a photo a day and posting each one to Flickr. My feed has never seen such fresh content on a daily basis! I also have picked some extra subscribers.

Numbers 1 and 2

So, the first two posts are from my iPhoto series. The time readers spend on each page is 1:46 mins (Number 1) and 4:35 mins (Number 2) which is quite good considering the nature and speed of ’surfing the web.’

What does this mean?

I can’t say for sure, but when I first got my Mac and began using iPhoto, I didn’t find many tips and tricks out there. Possibly I wasn’t looking in the right places. So I started writing some. It seems that there was a bit of a gap in this area.

Does this change the way I blog? The consistency in my popular posts (not just the Top 3) does encourage me to write similar ones in the future and continue the iPhoto series. Does it make me change the way I photograph? No. But I do store my photos in iPhoto. And I ensure that I use it (even though GIMP is my new editor of choice) often to see what post-processing possibilities it has. And then I write about them.

What are your most popular posts? Get your entry to Tibor at photonovice.net by 9 May!

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