Written on December 26th, 2007 at 12:12 am by Darren Rowse
What Was Your Most Popular Post in 2007?
As we draw closer to the end of the year I spent some time this week doing some reviewing of ProBlogger.
One of the things I looked at was to analyze popular posts. It got me wondering what type of posts were most popular on other blogs.
So here’s a reader question:
What Was Your Most Popular Post in 2007?
By ‘popular’ I’m thinking of posts that got a combination of traffic, comments and link love from other blogs. It’s up to you to define it as you wish.
I’ll share mine in an upcoming year in review post - but in the mean time I’d love to see yours. Feel free to leave a link, the title and tell us a little about the post and why it was successful.
172 Responses to “What Was Your Most Popular Post in 2007?”
Patrick
December 26th, 2007 12:55 am
This was by far my most successful post, which received 2,500 hits in 3 days, mostly from Stumbleupon.
I think the key was value for the reader and being a helpful and useful post.
Louis Gray
December 26th, 2007 12:55 am
This one:
Internal Linking On Some Tech Blogs Is Out of Control
http://www.louisgray.com/live/2007/09/internal-linking-on-some-tech-blogs-is.html
Goal Setting College
December 26th, 2007 12:56 am
Other than the article the article I’ve written for the Problogger’s group writing project, I’ve to admit the other popular article is this recent one : The Complete Guide To Finding & Learning Something New Online.
I think the main reason’s because it’s a very useful resource article for anyone eager to use online resources to learn almost anything. It was also picked up at lifehack.org which added more link love in the process.
Cheers,
Ellesse
Chris Jacobson
December 26th, 2007 1:00 am
This recent one on why newbie internet marketers suck is pretty good. lol
http://www.moneymakingscoop.com/blog/416/what-newbie-internet-marketers-dont-know/
Matej
December 26th, 2007 1:04 am
Surprisingly it was a post with brief informations for the next season of tv show I blog about.
I received 21 000 page views that day, with 100+ comments. Most traffic came from Google and one more website.
There were some much better posts where I have spent 5+ hours to write them, but the traffic was not that good.
Andrei Kharlanov
December 26th, 2007 1:04 am
The most popular post on my russian blog about Apple was this one – http://macspoon.ru/mac-os-x/leopard-installation-tips-1/.
It is about installation Mac OS X Leopard. I wrote it day after original release and many people were interested in some tips and advice about upgrading these days.
bontegames
December 26th, 2007 1:15 am
My most popular post will be the following one as it is still hot and rising:
http://www.bontegames.com/2007/12/2007-top-10-web-games.html
It’s a 2007 top10 of free web games. Your perfect read for a holiday, cheers!
Marty Weil
December 26th, 2007 1:22 am
One of the most popular posts this year on the ephemera blog–exploring the wold of old paper–was this interview with a Beatles memorabilia collector. http://ephemera.typepad.com/ephemera/2007/11/1-whenwhy-did-2.html
In general, my posts containing interviews with collectors and authors draws the most comments and link love. I’ve interviewed dozens of memorabilia collectors and ephemera-related authors during the two years I’ve been blogging about old paper.
Rebecca Thorman
December 26th, 2007 1:27 am
This was my favorite, since it’s my advice, and I continue to read it to help myself! It was popular on my Modite blog too.
http://modite.com/blog/2007/07/20/personal-branding-accountability-and-how-to-just-be-yourself-already/
I have posts with many more comments (Gen Y women), and posts with more hits (from when I was in the NYT), but I feel this one affected people the most.
Happy Holidays!
Bloggrrl
December 26th, 2007 1:39 am
This question gave me a chuckle. It was definitely The Three Little Blogs, which you were the first to comment on and promote. Thanks, Darren!
Alex
December 26th, 2007 1:41 am
The most popular post for my blog was a list:
http://teamicogamers.blogspot.com/2007/09/50-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about.html
I included a lot of lesser known facts about the niche I write about. I guess because it was a list it encouraged a lot of bloggers to link to it. As for how successful it was, it hit the front page of Digg, getting 700 or so diggs and got me 30,000 hits.
linkerjpatrick
December 26th, 2007 1:45 am
I merged posts from another blog I closed down a few months ago to focus better but this is one I posted back in the summer;
http://www.spinningsilkmultimedia.com/the-power-of-real-conversation-in-marketing-your-business/
Now by looking at it it only received 4 comments but that is pretty good for my blog plus the people who commented are other well known bloggers or experts in the industry.
Now that I have gone back a read it again (also fixing a spelling mistake) I discovered three things;
1.) It was a post of self-discovery and digging to answer a question that had been bothering me.
2.) A couple of the people I referenced were people I mentioned in the blog.
3.) I shared my own experience thus telling my story and extending the conversation!
david
December 26th, 2007 1:49 am
By far, the entry titled “Our Marbles.” It was a very simple post about a dog (Marbles) that was shot & killed by neighbors here in Montana.
http://www.bigskyblog.com/index.php/2007/03/16/our-marbles/
Jorge Camoes
December 26th, 2007 1:57 am
I wrote this post about how create an Excel dashboard the second day of my three-month-old blog:
http://charts.jorgecamoes.com/how-to-create-an-excel-dashboard/
and it gets at least 50% of my daily visits.
Fred @ Newest on the Net
December 26th, 2007 2:01 am
My most popular post this year was “35 Guaranteed Ways to Increase Your RSS Subscribers”
http://newestonthenet.com/35-guaranteed-ways-to-increase-your-rss-subscribers/
I tried to make this post a definitive guide for tips on increasing your number of RSS subscribers. I got a lot of people to link to this article. Unfortunately, Darren did not :(
Thanks for giving me the opportunity to mention it now Darren :)
Steve McGrath
December 26th, 2007 2:02 am
It was my post about the HD-DVD player by Toshiba and the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray Format war.
Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD player: A $200 Doorstop?
I started a poll 6 week later but should had added earlier to get more result. I do have more views than people voting :(
Sangesh
December 26th, 2007 2:04 am
Well, I had quite a few posts which had a considerable number of visitors. But by far one of my post has topped the list. This post that I had written is about a lyrics from Pink Floyd. The following is the link to the post:
http://sangesh.com.np/blog/?cat=5
Cheers.
Mert Erkal
December 26th, 2007 2:12 am
Hi Darren,
There have been 42 comments so far for below blog post:
http://www.searchforblogging.com/index.php/2007/12/12/2007-bloghology-by-search-for-blogging-peopleizedcom/
It was about the first ever edition of Bloghology. Similar to an anthology, a bloghology is a collection of bloggers, their profiles, photos, and links to their best posts. It is a PDF e-book which can be easily circulated throughout the blogosphere for personal branding and marketing of selected good quality bloggers.
Happy Holidays!
Graham English
December 26th, 2007 2:15 am
According to unique visitors and comment count, my highest trafficked post was The Zen of Attraction, something I wrote as an aside. It was very controversial which surprised me.
Famous Quotes
December 26th, 2007 2:20 am
My blog is relatively new and my very first post was ‘A journey of a thousand miles..’ by Confucius located at
http://www.understandfamousquotes.com/2007/11/a-journey-of-a-thousand-miles-begins-confucius/
To my complete amazement, Google started sending me traffic just a few days after I posted it. It’s not a lot of traffic but this post continues to draw steady traffic from Google.
Cathy Moore
December 26th, 2007 2:24 am
My readers create elearning and are always looking for examples to inspire them. So my most popular post by far is a list of links to good instructional interactives.
GM Tristan
December 26th, 2007 2:41 am
The most popular post in my blog garnered almost 20,000 hits. It’s about offering the beta client download for our new game, Perfect World.
The link is:
http://gmtristan.com/perfect-world-open-beta-client-download/
Since I run the blog to help our gaming company, I was really happy!
Merry Christmas, everyone.
Regards,
GM T
Lucy Dee
December 26th, 2007 2:41 am
The Title: My Reaction To The N-Word
Being a black female living in US, this post was something I had been thinking about throughout my life. Race may not be such an issue in other countries, but writing this post was cathartic for me.
I’m also a stand-up comedienne, so I tried to make a serious issue somewhat light-hearted.
The post received a front page Digg and I still receive 20-40 hits on a daily basis from StumbleUpon and as Digg residual.
Here is the link: http://standup101.blogspot.com/2007/11/my-reaction-to-n-word.html
Cenk at Cafe Fernando
December 26th, 2007 2:42 am
Hey Darren -
After your previous post “Best of Problogger 2007″, I had a chance to review my stats in detail (via Google Analytics). I don’t do that pretty often so it was really interesting to see what had garnered interest and what kind of keywords led to traffic, etc.
To my surprise, my most popular blog post was “Brownies” (I am a food blogger):
http://cafefernando.com/brownies-my-way
One would think that a dessert that has been blogged to death wouldn’t be that interesting. Does the blogosphere really need another brownie recipe after all?
The post constitutes nearly 15% of the traffic my blog has received in 2007. Considering there are 70+ posts, I believe that is huge. Also, the post page doesn’t even appear on the first page after a Google search (I have many other posts that do).
Because of these reasons, I am almost certain that the reason is Stumble Upon.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone!!
Vikram
December 26th, 2007 2:43 am
I have seen that Resource Articles get popular quickly.
I have had a good experience with resource articles and the one that went to be most popular is A list of 50 Youtube Resources on the web:
http://digital-musings.com/2007/11/06/a-collection-of-top-50-youtube-tools-and-resources-on-the-web/
This has a number of resources related to WordPress plugins, Downloading videos from Youtube, Third Party Scripts that enhance user experience and Top Youtube related websites.
I had received about 40 comments on this, but I lost that data during my sever crash as I was only able to restore the post and related images.
I learned a lesson from this and wrote an informative post about backing up ones blog, as a server crash can render you helpless.
JenWriter
December 26th, 2007 2:54 am
My most popular post was “101 Resources on the Web for Writers and Bloggers”. It got picked up by StumbleUpon, and it was by far the biggest traffic day I’ve had. I got lots of link love and subscribers sign up that day as well.
http://blog.jenwriter.com/?p=140
OldSailor
December 26th, 2007 3:01 am
Hi Darren,
My blog is going to complete three months on December 30. I had maximum traffic on http://www.marinebuzz.com/2007/10/06/10-reasons-to-classify-ship-as-feminine/
The post lists the reasons why a ship is considered as a female.
Ken Y-N
December 26th, 2007 3:01 am
My best was linkbait I wrote with the aim of getting a digg front page, and it did:
http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/09/16/japans-ten-strangest-qualifications/
It got about 28,000 page views in total.
Surprisingly enough, looking at my overall stats it’s only my third-best story. One high-ranking on a reasonably popular Google phrase did double the traffic over the year, and another with the longest tail that picks up really weird search hits and hundreds of comments. My fourth-best is not far behind, and despite getting very few comments it has been a long-runner in StumbleUpon.
fc
December 26th, 2007 3:13 am
Surprisingly I had a three way tie for the most popular post.. one with most backlinks, one with most comments and finally one with most traffic.. I finally chose 10 unneglectable laws of branding your blog… over the other two because that was one of my post to get popular (popularity is relative here :) ) and I was surprised what started as a joke found serious takers…
ps: I hope html tag works on this box…
Jacob from Mind-Energy.net
December 26th, 2007 3:15 am
My most popular post in 2007 was about spoon bending: http://www.mind-energy.net/archives/167-Spoon-bending-instructions-and-pictures.html
Got more than 320 comments and thousands visitors a month still.
Joel Libava
December 26th, 2007 3:17 am
My Number 1 post this year was on a new franchise that is offering solar energy design and installation for homes and businesses.
i posted it about a month ago, and their is a huge amount of interst in it.
URL-http://thefranchiseking.typepad.com/the_franchise_king/2007/12/a-solar-power-f.html
Joel Libava
BW
December 26th, 2007 3:23 am
I posted this one on a blog carnival and it got a few hits.
I think people that have been here, can relate to it..
http://www.visit-the-coqui.com/2007/05/10-signs-you-are-in-puerto-rico/
Jodie
December 26th, 2007 3:29 am
Blog has only been set up less than a week.. so I dont know yet :)
http://www.blogkindle.com
Steve
December 26th, 2007 3:44 am
I usually draw up three lists on a regular basis:
Most popular pages overall
Most popular pages from search engines
Highest earning pages (as far as these can be identified)
So I’m wondering, do you find, as I do, that there is a great deal of difference between your most popular pages and your highest earning pages?
Patrick Burt
December 26th, 2007 3:45 am
Article on why you should validate your website:
http://www.pat-burt.com/web-development/why-you-should-validate-your-website/
jd
December 26th, 2007 3:46 am
These were my top and I somewhat expected it
* Patterns and Practices for New Hires - (http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2007/10/08/patterns-and-practices-for-new-hires.aspx)
* Results Approach (http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2007/02/04/my-personal-approach-for-daily-results.aspx)
* 7 Habits of Highly Effective PMs (http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2007/04/09/7-habbits-of-effective-program-managers.aspx)
* The Secret of Time Management (http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2007/03/21/the-secret-of-time-management.aspx)
This one surprised me …
* Ward and the wiki Way (http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2007/03/09/ward-and-the-wiki-way.aspx)
It had 20,000+ views! It wasn’t a major post so I can only reason it was because it mentioned wiki.
What’s sad is I flipped through my posts and found many that never got the traffic I though they would and with 20/20 hindsight — and some new insight — It think it was my poor titles and keywords.
Jaganath
December 26th, 2007 3:54 am
As of today this is the popular post on my blog:
http://www.jaganath.net/content/apple/building-cheap-yet-powerful-hackintosh/70
Written only a couple of weeks back, it has become quite popular among my readers.
Ben
December 26th, 2007 3:57 am
My most popular post was http://www.tenaciouscreations.com/tutorials/peeling-away-skin-to-reveal-another-image . It got lots of link love and good feed back. I din’t think it was anything to special but I guess the technique really had not been shown before and the out come looks really neat.
Ben
December 26th, 2007 3:58 am
My most popular post was http://www.tenaciouscreations.com/tutorials/peeling-away-skin-to-reveal-another-image . It got lots of link love and good feed back. I didn’t think it was anything to special but I guess the technique really had not been shown before and the out come looks really neat.
redwall_hp
December 26th, 2007 4:06 am
I’d have to say my most popular post in 2007 was Don’t Block Firefox. It got over 10,000 unique viewers over a week, and it has my highest comment count today. But I’ve gotten respectable numbers of viewers (2,000+ on some of them) in a lot of posts in my “featured posts” category.
Adam Lyttle
December 26th, 2007 4:31 am
Most popular post was one written about the effects of Digg VS CNN, it attracted quite a lot of traffic:
http://blog.adamant.com.au/blog/news_events/the_diggeffect_vs_the_cnneffect
Marek
December 26th, 2007 4:40 am
My most successful post in 2007 was actually written in December of 2006 as a part of Problogger group writing project “Reviews and Predictions”. It was posted in my “Paddling with a Camera” blog as “12 Pictures and Reflections from Paddling with a Camera in 2006″:
http://photokayaker.fit2paddle.com/C1666358270/E20061219073654/index.html
This is somewhat surprising. Usually, articles related to camera and gear review, tips, paddling destinations, etc., attract most of attention and traffic.
The second in popularity would be a more commercial article
“Waterproof Digital Cameras for Paddling and Water Sports - A Shopping Guide” posted in the same blog in November of 2007:
http://www.fit2paddle.com/photokayaker/C560391461/E20070826082732/index.html
Heraldo
December 26th, 2007 4:48 am
My most popular post broke the news that our local billionaire reportedly shoved a city councilman and threatened to “destroy” him if he didn’t approve his Home Depot project. It didn’t get the most comments but my traffic jumped and has remained markedly higher than it was before.
Steve Nguyen - BeyondBehaviors.Com
December 26th, 2007 5:03 am
My most successful post on http://www.beyondbehaviors.com was called “I’m So Embarrassed” (http://www.beyondbehaviors.com/im-so-embarrassed.htm) I think what made it successful was that we can all relate to embarrassing moments in each of our lives. In that post, I shared my embarrassing moment when I mistaked a nonpregnant woman for a very pregnant one. First, I called her by the wrong name. Second, I mistaked her toddler son for a girl. Finally, I mistaked this poor woman for a 9 month pregnant woman. :(
Eitan
December 26th, 2007 5:12 am
Not surprisingly the most popular post on my blog was the one where I talked about my Las Vegas commercial (what happens there…).
http://eitantheactor.com/bio/2006/01/11/what-happens-in-vegas-commercial-eitan-is-famous/
Probably because that commercial was on 10 times a day and is part of a huge and very well known campaign.
KiwiPulse
December 26th, 2007 5:16 am
A post about the Amnesty international. It was the top #1 on reddit for the 3 days, I received more than 100,000+ visitors daily. My hosting compagny have suspended my blog for the week, because of the intense cpu load. Well it was a good experience for me. I learned that I needed a bigger server, because my shared hosting plan is limited. :D
http://www.kiwipulse.com/amnesty-international-china-is-getting-ready/
DB Ferguson
December 26th, 2007 5:17 am
http://www.nofactzone.net/?p=883
At NoFactZone.net, we blog about all things Stephen Colbert. We had heard in December that Colbert was going to come out with an ice cream flavor, so when we were sent pics of a demo carton by an anonymous source at the beginning of February, we went ahead and published it on good faith.
Come to find out, the Ben & Jerry’s carton that we were sent a picture of was at the Whole Foods corporate marketing department and the pic was one made especially for us. NO ONE else had it. And there was no news on the web about this ice cream. This was also in the middle of a huge upswing in Colbert’s popularity, so the media was all over it.
We had a blogger who was active on the Salon forums, and she forwarded this tip to her in hopes that it would be picked up and blogged about. And it was! After our story was picked up by Salon.com, the story was picked up by numerous high-profile blogs and news sources, such as The Huffington Post, USA Today, BoingBoing, VH1’s Best Week Ever, OhNoTheyDidn’t, OliverWillis.com, Comedy Central Insider’s blog and Fark.com. We even made the Ben & Jerry’s page with this map that we put on this entry.
Here’s some of the things we did to make this post the biggest and what we did once it was big:
1) Tipped off our top media contacts to let them know that we had an exclusive. Luckily, one of them bit, and when they did it got picked up all over the blogosphere. This made the story HUGE!
2) Once we realized that this particular post was ranking at #1 for “Stephen Colbert’s Americone Dream”, and we were getting lots of Google traffic, we kept modifying the post to add more information to new traffic.
3) We kept track of all of our link love to this post within the post itself, as a “resume” for our ability to get high-profile links from highly trafficked blogs.
4) This post was what rocketed our status from simply a “fan blog” to the most high-profile and high-status blog in our niche. Taking the work to publicize this particular piece of information helped us to gain the status needed to help find even more fans who were able to feed us even more scoops which helped to push us even further (such as the Comedy Central insider who leaked us the Richard Branson water fight story). But this post is what really started it all for us this year.
elamb
December 26th, 2007 5:20 am
My most popular post has got to be the “Windows Has Detected Spyware Infection” . I’m sorry to say it brings in most of my very weak flow of traffic. And I’ve been trying to expand my base for over a year. This site started about 6 months or so after Problogger and I’m still not a blog rock star like Darren.
Kris
December 26th, 2007 5:21 am
My most popular post was an article on how to build a $200 PC.
http://www.krisbarrett.com/2007/11/09/build-walmarts-199-pc/
Sue
December 26th, 2007 5:25 am
I have three that have brought in a lot (for me) of traffic. One is the free printable lighthouse Christmas card (no.1) and the other two are Lighthouses for sale around the world (no.2 - Apparently a lot of people want to buy a lighthouse) and lighthouse keepers jobs available (no.3 - Unfortunately they’re mostly volunteer).
Lin
December 26th, 2007 5:33 am
My most popular post, highly trafficked post was while hosted on Blogger called “Top Ten Tips To Become A ProBlogger”. I had nearly a thousand hits to that post, only to discover the next day that anyone using Firefox was unable to read the dang post because of a template coding error. I pouted about that for days! I hate Blogger!
And now that I’ve moved my blogger blog to Wordpress, I think the entire URL changed as well, ’cause all my comments from IE users disappeared. :(
uglykid80s
December 26th, 2007 5:41 am
My little 80s pages have picked up steam this year. I hope that 08 gives me the same climb in traffic. My best post for 80s Rewind was 80s Punk Fashion.
Brian Purkiss
December 26th, 2007 5:42 am
I have very interesting ‘top content.’
My post, A Comprehensive List of Design Showcases was my most popular. It got stumbled a few times and got linked to from a A Blog.
My second most popular post was A Few Components of ‘Good’ Web Design. It also got stumbled a few times and linked to from the same A Blog. But it was a few hundred views lower than the List of Design Showcases.
And then, surprisingly, my about page had the third most hits, and then my post The Quest for PageRank - How PR Works.
And surprisingly, my index page had the fifth most views.
My reason for success was getting links from an A Blog.
However, “The Quest for PageRank - How PR Works wasn’t ever linked to by an A Blog - I just got stumbled and linked to from a few smaller blogs.
I found the most eye opening part was my About page coming in third.
That just goes to show the power of the about page.
Most interesting…
Alain
December 26th, 2007 5:43 am
I have an automotive blog, and by far the most popular post (in its thus far short life span) has been the post in which the Hyundai Genesis coupe was revealed.
http://www.driverslife.com/2007/11/14/la-auto-show-hyundai-genesis-coupe/
I got a lot of google search engine traffic and it was linked to on various forums and stuff. Unfortunately I didn’t get a lot of dialogue on the post, as there were only 7 comments left.
Still, I’m pretty sure that is the most feedback I’ve ever got on any of my posts to date.
A wee bit disheartening, I must say, but I’m trying to keep going. I know that ONE DAY I’ll have a steady reader base. Who knows, maybe I’ll even make enough money from ads to start paying for hosting costs!
Louis Gray
December 26th, 2007 5:45 am
Why mention just one, when you can mention 12! Talking about Google and Apple TV dominated my viewership this year, with Google-related content taking the top 3 spots for page views alone.
Google Dominates My 2007 Blog Statistics
http://www.louisgray.com/live/2007/12/google-dominates-my-2007-blog.html
I mentioned the internal link story above as it got the most high-profile discussion, external linkage, and comments.
J.F.H.
December 26th, 2007 5:56 am
My most popular post is one I just recently wrote about the top mac os x applications:
http://scribblesandwords.com/top-mac-os-x-applications-for-bringing-in-2008-with-productive-style/
Jimson Lee
December 26th, 2007 5:58 am
My website is primarily a running web site, but the one article that nearly crashed my server had NOTHING to do with running!
Granted, it was a World Record in pull-ups attempt with a feature story and Video (everyone loves videos), and it was linked from the official World Record web site and several popular forums.
Dubber
December 26th, 2007 6:00 am
No question. By far the most popular blog post of 2007 for me was one called An IFPI / BPI Board Member Writes.
In a series of emails, Paul Birch of Revolver Records - and board member of the British equivalent of the RIAA as well as the International body that represents them - threatens legal action and a formal complaint to my employer, demands that I edit my blog to his liking, and insists that university academics always represent the views of the corporate record industry.
He then (remarkably) gives his permission to publish the exchange, which was much appreciated. An absolute gift of a blog post.
Crashed my server with the sheer volume of traffic (generating a series of nice little conspiracy theories), sent my comments and links absolutely through the roof, got Dugg and Boing-Boinged and everything else you could hope for - and pretty much tripled my regular ongoing readership as a result.
Merry Christmas, Paul…
Sly from Slyvisions.com
December 26th, 2007 6:05 am
Honestly, I had a lot of popular posts from Slyvisions.com. But the one that was really liked by my readers was this one:
10 Things To Do When You Have Nothing To Blog About
http://slyvisions.com/files/10-things-to-do-when-you-have-nothing-to-blog-about.php
codist
December 26th, 2007 6:30 am
http://thecodist.com/fiche/thecodist/article/all-i-need-to-know-to-be-a-better-programmer-i-learned-in-kindergarten
Got 40,000+ readers and continues to get at least 100 or so every week. Even the author of the original book liked it.
Alik
December 26th, 2007 6:39 am
My most popular was
“Focus On Results, Avoid Workaholism - My 4 Simple Rules”
http://practicethis.com/2007/12/20/focus-on-results-avoid-workaholism-my-4-simple-rules/
Linux Operating System
December 26th, 2007 6:44 am
Hi Darren and everybody, my most popular post this year, with 2154 Diggs, and, seven reviews at StumbleUpon, with more than 40 Stumbles, was
Linux Operating System
December 26th, 2007 6:45 am
Hi Darren and everybody, my most popular post this year, with 2154 Diggs, and, seven reviews at StumbleUpon, with more than 40 Stumbles, was
Review of changes between Firfox 2 and Firefox 3
Mary
December 26th, 2007 6:45 am
this one
BERLIN SHOPPING GUIDE ::: VINTAGE
http://pudri.blogspot.com/2007/12/berlin-shopping-guide-vintage.html
kind of saw that coming
Matt McGee
December 26th, 2007 6:49 am
I’m almost certain my most popular post was Top 21 Signs You Need a Break From SEO (2007 version). It was the second such post (I did one in 2006 which was also very popular) and I always make sure to link out to several popular SEO bloggers, which tends to encourage them linking back to me. :)
It’s also the #2 most popular post on Sphinn.com.
stilinberlin
December 26th, 2007 6:51 am
http://stilinberlin.blogspot.com/2007/08/aerobic-ii-2007-08-04.html
makemoneyonl.blogspot.com
December 26th, 2007 6:54 am
The my most popular post was about make money online at http://makemoneyonl.blogspot.com.
Terry Ng
December 26th, 2007 7:09 am
No doubt it was my:
5 Steps to Winning the Man of Your Dreams (with Lego illustrations!)
Jeff Kay
December 26th, 2007 7:13 am
This was the most popular feature at my site this year, or any year. Good times.
http://thewvsr.com/adsvsreality.htm
Mark
December 26th, 2007 7:32 am
Greetings All -
My most popular post was ‘The Ten Most Inspirational Bloggers of 2007′:
http://www.mytropicalescape.com/2007/12/16/the-ten-most-inspirational-bloggers-of-2007/
This post got stumbled by Leo, of Zen Habits, and Maki from DoshDosh, so it drew tremendous traffic. It was a great way to finish off 2007
Patrick D.
December 26th, 2007 7:53 am
My most popular post was, by far, on a device called Washlet. I wrote about it as a joke. It was StumbleUpon’d and got a nice bump in traffic. But if you use SU, you know the bump is very short usually. This one, however, exploded. It ended up getting over 14,000 hits, nearly 40% of my total page views for all posts. Crazy.
http://www.patricksays.net/2007/09/16/greatest-invention-ever/
Shane
December 26th, 2007 7:57 am
By far, my most successful post since the start of my blog is:
Linux Is Not Y2K(38) Compliant!?
But of course, it was dugg! With over 243,000 hits and 1035 diggs, this really brought a LOT of traffic and comments to the site.
It seems it was a very hot topic on digg. This was very unexpected, I was just writing about what interested me, not what I thought others might be interested in. You can read the digg post and comments here:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Linux_Is_Not_Y2K_38_Compliant
Albert | UrbanMonk.Net
December 26th, 2007 8:33 am
This post I made was one of the most popular, for two reasons:
1) People who didn’t understand it got depressed and upset
2) People who understood it fell in love with it. :D
http://www.urbanmonk.net/136/loneliness-the-beginning-of-romance/
Matt Robison
December 26th, 2007 8:35 am
I had two posts that were equally popular. Although neither helped me at all in regards to readership stats like feed count. I’ve hit a 2 month long plateau :(
5 Tips On How to Read the Bible the Right Way - My Way - This was a satire piece that brought out some praise and some crazy talk. Always great.
The Golden Compass and The Christian Whine - this one drew a whopping 39 comments, making it by far the most commented on post. It was controversial and went against the grain of the typical Christian rant against other people’s artwork.
It was also an experiment I did in Search Engine traffic. I wrote it about 3 weeks before the movie came out, and I got several thousands of visitors searching for The Golden Compass in regards to the boycotts.
Gab from SEO ROI
December 26th, 2007 10:26 am
This one made Sphinn’s frontpage: http://seoroi.com/search-engines/msn-search-share/
These others at SEOmoz will also be of interest to my fellow Pb readers:
5 Youmoz and Sphinn bloggers You MUST RSS
20 Top Sphinners You Should Know
Scot
December 26th, 2007 10:43 am
My blog still feels like a relatively new affair, and true to form my most popular post was of the list variety - my Top Five Tips for Writing a Killer Bio
Interesting, because it far outdid my most personally satisfying post (The Appeal of an Acting Career) in terms of drawing traffic.
Sharon Hurley Hall
December 26th, 2007 10:51 am
My most successful post written by me was How To Build Your Own Buzz about ways of promoting yourself for free.
Homeboy
December 26th, 2007 10:54 am
I have few blogs and from those the most popular articles were as stated below.
Skiing: It seems people are interested in gear reviews
http://homeboyski.com/2007/10/15/volkl-0708-ski-review-series-part-i-volkl-katana
Astronomy: People seem to be interested in constellations
http://homeboyastronomy.com/2007/11/17/astronomy-observation-tips-what-constellations-can-be-seen-in-different-times
Headbanging: It seems Northern Kings is interesting for my readers.
http://metal-music-videos.com/2007/10/15/northern-kings-we-dont-need-another-hero-cover/
Mario Andrade
December 26th, 2007 11:49 am
I was actually able to write a wonderful post about youtube downloading software that currently tops google serps for a bunch of youtube relatd searches.
http://muiomuio.net/programas-para-fazer-download-de-videos-do-youtube/
The post is written in Portuguese but it’s very easy to understand where to go from there :)
Jonathan Fields
December 26th, 2007 11:50 am
This post on no-cost, off-blog marketing that featured a round-up of top bloggers was a home run…in no small part because you joined in it…
How to build traffic without spending a dime
Bill Perry
December 26th, 2007 12:43 pm
My most popular post, when comparing both of my blogs, is called “How to Stay in the Dream as Long As You Want”, at http://www.lucidblog.com/how-to-stay-in-the-dream-as-long-as-you-want/
I checked all-time content stats with Google Analytics, and this post came in #1 at 17,327 unique views, and 28,758 pageviews, with a P/V ratio of 1.66.
I particularly liked writing this post a lot, because it took me MONTHS to figure out how to prolong lucidity in the dream state.
noemi Dado
December 26th, 2007 12:48 pm
One of my most popular blog posts is “Reshaing the Sexy Filipina Image”
http://aboutmyrecovery.com/2007/06/27/reshaping-the-sexy-filipina-image-filipino-women/
It became so popular that I got a new domain for it at http://filipinaimages.com . Not only did it become popular it helped achieve my gola.
Dee Stewart
December 26th, 2007 1:01 pm
My most popular post this year was a feature I began called Your Two Cents Thursday. The most popular post was about Tyler Perry’s new sitcom House of Payne”.
Why was it popular? I received news about the show very early on from a contact at TBS, I opened it up for discussion. Tyler Perry fans flocked to the blog to get info about the sitcom and chime in.
I’ve learned that for my blog using my publicist contacts help add more traffic. Thanks for reminding me about this feature. I had forgotten about Two Cents Thursday.
Jason Swadley
December 26th, 2007 1:10 pm
My best article, and thankfully my most popular, was The 10 Commandments of Mac Optimization at jasonswadley.com.
pablopabla
December 26th, 2007 1:15 pm
My favourite and most popular post for this year has to be 25 Pointers for Blogging Beginners. It took a bit of time to write it but the feedback received through comments and stumbles was great.
Cigar Jack
December 26th, 2007 1:32 pm
I was interviewed by Chris Garret a few months ago and he Stumbled the article. I had a week of my highest traffic ever.
The article was 10 Questions from a Wannabe Cigar Smoker.
Dr.Mani
December 26th, 2007 1:53 pm
By just about every indicator, mine was “A Beginner’s Guide to Getting More StumbleUpon Traffic” at http://moneypowerwisdom.com/a-beginners-guide-to-getting-more-stumbleupon-traffic/
All success
Dr.Mani
Cindy
December 26th, 2007 2:12 pm
My most popular post included options for inexpensive but interesting banquet centerpieces: http://cindyae.blogspot.com/2007/08/centerpieces-limit-spending-increase.html
I write a blog for association staff; but quickly found many companies/people plan events and search for that info.
Cindy
http://cindyae.blogspot.com
sarah
December 26th, 2007 2:20 pm
Te iGoogle Teahouse Fox takes the cake. ^_^
http://journal.sarahcada.com/2007/06/igoogle-teahouse-ghost-captured.html
Danny Foo
December 26th, 2007 2:45 pm
Oddly enough for me, I’m still riding the Apple iPhone wave. From when I thought it was expensive to getting a free unit from a reseller, it’s given me a new high. :P
http://www.dannyfoo.com/blog/apple-iphone/day-4-buy-the-apple-iphone-in-malaysia/
Chris
December 26th, 2007 3:04 pm
My most popular post for my local news/politics blog was a post about how police used cell phone records to destroy the alibi of a suspect.
On my celebrity blog, it was a post about a certain B-list celebrity reportedly being impregnated during the filming of her reality dating show. It also broke the record for number of comments.
IndependentKitten
December 26th, 2007 3:39 pm
I have two that has gotten a reasonable amount of traffic from Google.
8 Things to Do If You’re Alone This Christmas
http://independentkitten.com/christmas/
and
Feeling Naughty? Learn How to Make Patent Leather Look Classy
http://independentkitten.com/feeling-naughty-learn-how-to-make-patent-leather-look-classy/
GadgetGrid.com
December 26th, 2007 3:59 pm
‘10,000 kW Electrical Power Generation in Your Backyard’ was our most popular post of 2007. With oil prices the way they are, I can understand why this post was popular. It made front page on digg.com the day it was posted and spread like a virus.
http://www.gadgetgrid.com/2007/03/26/10000-kw-electrical-power-generation-in-your-backyard/
scooter
http://www.gadgetgrid.com
Lipton
December 26th, 2007 4:03 pm
This one:
http://www.starfeeder.com/blog/archives/beautiful_night_elf_spotted/
An Asian girl dressed up as a Night Elf from World of WarCraft…
Got over 40,000 unique visitors to this one post alone in Nov, and still getting visits (
alanj878
December 26th, 2007 5:01 pm
my most popular post was this http://livelymoney.blogspot.com/2007/12/top-5-stock-picks-in-ghetto.htmlI made it at he top of digg and got over 30,000 vistors
Tom Simpson
December 26th, 2007 5:16 pm
Sometimes I feel like having a “popular” post isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. My most popular for the year (linked on my name) was a post from almost 3 years ago. On the average, I delete at least 5 trackbacks per day. I’ve even thought about moving my main blog to a different domain, just so the new items will get seen.
I definitely don’t complain about the traffic, just about the fact that most people who see that post never actually subscribe or come back for anything else.
Rose
December 26th, 2007 5:49 pm
My most popular on the business blog was:
Adevertising, It’s How You Say It
It got noticed by a blogger I respect and she gave me a comment and a later link back.
My most popular on the main News for Moms blog was:
Multiple Recalls 12/21/07
I think it’s just the most popular because it’s my most recent toy recall summary and my blog got a link back from a popular mom blog.
66tx
December 26th, 2007 6:22 pm
Surprisingly it was a post with brief informations for the next season of tv show I blog about.
MaxBro
December 26th, 2007 6:29 pm
Since starting my blog November 8th of this year, by far my most popular post in terms of traffic, links, and comments, was ‘Why Does Fiction Fail on the Internet?’
http://max-bro.net/2007/11/26/why-does-fiction-fail-on-the-internet/
I think it was successful due to two main reasons:
1.) It was about something that doesn’t get talked about too often since fiction isn’t nearly as popular a genre as technology or blogging itself or other non-fiction related topics, and
2.) WordPress linked to it on their front page, which gave me a good number of initial hits that eventually built into a nice StumbleUpon wave and a few links from Delicious bookmarks and other blogs.
Rob
December 26th, 2007 6:33 pm
Posts on my site pretty regularly get thousands of hits, and dozens (occasionally hundreds) of comments, but a post I did about the appalling status of an Indian reservation community in my state did the best. I didn’t track how many hits it got, but it got nearly a thousand comments:
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/the_app/
That was a post I wrote when the controversy over my original post (published at the tail end of 2006) hit. The original post has nearly a thousand comments as well:
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/the_appalling_state_of_our_indian_reservations/
Those posts also got me banished from the Indian reservation in question for life, so I’m not sure if “popular” is the right word for them. “Infamous” is a better one, I think.
kaiwah
December 26th, 2007 8:20 pm
Mine is http://ecommerze.blogspot.com/2007/04/making-money-online-e-commerce-revenue.html
jen at semantically driven
December 26th, 2007 9:03 pm
Mine, according to my popular posts Wordpress plugin is ‘Wondering if I’m capable.
Another one was when I hosted the All Women blogging carnival.
Both of these were commented on, viewed and Stumbled which definitely helped their popularity.
Craig Harper
December 26th, 2007 9:12 pm
Mine was: Celebrate the Weirdo
Random Good Stuff
December 26th, 2007 9:28 pm
My most popular post is:
http://www.random-good-stuff.com/2007/06/24/puchipuchi-bubble-wrap-toy/
It got picked up by couple of other posts and I receive a decent amount of search engine hits.
CompuWorld
December 26th, 2007 9:49 pm
10 EverPink Only For Moms Social Networking Websites
Above article of mine recieved huge amount of response.
Comments, mails, backlinks.
There were so many females mailing me and thanking me for the list. They recieved a place to hang-up I guess.
I made few good online friends due to the same article :)
Andy
December 26th, 2007 10:02 pm
My most popular, unusual post was:
How to lose weight with straws
http://www.weight-loss-tips.ws/lose-weight-with-straws/17/
Andy
December 26th, 2007 10:06 pm
My appologies, the above post I mentioned was actually posted in 2006.
RT the fitness guy
December 26th, 2007 10:24 pm
Most popular for me is Brutal Backyard Shed Workouts for Huge Muscles.
Went off like two cats in a sack.
RT
Deb Ng
December 26th, 2007 10:25 pm
My most popular post wasn’t even a favorite. It was written during a moment of crankiness after reading a blog post about how anyone can be a writer.
Freelance Writing: Not Everyone Can Do It
Kathy
December 26th, 2007 10:43 pm
Mine was a post about grade school memories and the agony of it all:
http://junkdrawerblog.com/2007/11/you-couldnt-pay-me-to-do-it-over-again.html
Jirel
December 26th, 2007 11:06 pm
My post on
How to get up early in the morning? at http://positivensuccess.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-to-get-up-early-in-morning.html
was the most popular post for me. It got many diggs from readers and good comments.
Actually I do not include link to any post in body of comment in others blog and sorry here for doing this. I think it should be done here anyway.
Merry Christmas!
hackaback
December 26th, 2007 11:46 pm
it was a shortcut for locking windows….. I wasn’t expecting that it would be mentioned on some really good sites..
http://theblogwhichsaysall.blogspot.com/2007/05/shortcut-for-locking-windows.html
Takuin Minamoto
December 27th, 2007 12:12 am
My most popular post is easily, Using the Rule of 5 For Blogging Success.
This was actually due to Problogger. I submitted this as a part of the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog series.
Thanks Darren!
And Happy Holidays to all of you.
Takuin Minamoto
Susan Payton, The Marketing Eggspert
December 27th, 2007 12:49 am
Although I write about marketing (press releases, enewsletters, etc), my most popular post was called “Why Your Business Should Blog.”
I know blogs are popular, but I still meet a lot of people who don’t know what they are or what they’re for. It was great to see such interest in the topic as it pertains to marketing your business!
Paula Neal Mooney
December 27th, 2007 2:24 am
Well, thanks in part to your wonderful link love, MInister Rowse, my post about blogger salaries put me on the blogosphere map!
Hope your Christmas was great,
Paula
ReddyK - The Atma Jyoti Blog
December 27th, 2007 2:25 am
The most popular post on The Atma Jyoti Blog this year was a surprise. It was Key Concepts in Yoga: Raga and Dwesha. I was surprised because it is an uncommon subject. I give the credit to StumbleUpon, which is the main draw to our site.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
DJ
December 27th, 2007 2:40 am
My most popular article was Won’t You Be My Drinking Buddy Neighbor? It was picked up on BoingBoing, and then it kinda went crazy from there. I wish every article did this! :)
Yebot
December 27th, 2007 2:56 am
My most-trafficked post of 2007 was my anti-top-ten top-ten list.
http://www.yebot.net/55/top-ten-reasons-to-avoid-top-ten-lists-like-this-one.html
Roland Kopp-Wichman
December 27th, 2007 3:01 am
Hi,
my most popular post was an article of about ten lines which refers to an article in an economic newspaper. The article tells about that it is possible as am woman to have career an to have children.
I don’t understand why this article is on number one of my posts.
Here is the link: http://seminare4you.de/weblog/article/35/verzicht-auf-kinder-lohnt-sich-nicht
Have a good new year.
Greetings from Germany.
Roland
markowe
December 27th, 2007 3:07 am
Darren, no Happy Christmas, nothing!?
This man is DRIVEN…!
Guardian Angel
December 27th, 2007 3:35 am
Hi Darren! I am still very young in this field so I do not have huge traffic yet and “fans” yet, but I guess this post was popular enough, and I think it was the most interesting one. Why Bloggers Should Show Their Own Pictures On Blogs They Own. Thanks for being my inspiration for this post.
ian in hamburg
December 27th, 2007 3:38 am
Although I was away for three weeks after posting it, this one on The 20 Blogging Commandments got the most hits and comments this year. :-)
Dave
December 27th, 2007 4:28 am
My most popular post was promoting a great tailgating game and supply, the portable and inflatable beer pong table. It probably did not hurt that the photo that accompanies the post had a hot girl in a bikini playing the game. With that said, I know all the guys will want to check out the link:
http://www.tailgatingideas.com/2007/10/10/port-o-pong-beer-pong-table/
Elaine Vigneault
December 27th, 2007 4:46 am
My most popular posts of 2007 were these…
The post that received the most traffic: http://www.elainevigneault.com/how-to-make-your-text-on-myspace-bigger-or-colorful.html
The post that received the most substantial comments: http://www.elainevigneault.com/the-oppression-connection.html
Corinne Edwards
December 27th, 2007 4:54 am
Wonderful list to go through. Thanks for giving us all this great reading on a slow week.
Mine was
http://www.personal-growth-with-corinne-edwards.com/the-big-idea-when-to-bail-out/
Shama Hyder
December 27th, 2007 5:11 am
Top 10 Ways to Use Facebook to Market Your Business-
http://www.afterthelaunch.com/2007/11/18/top-10-ways-to-use-facebook-to-promote-your-business-for-free/
Moviecat
December 27th, 2007 5:17 am
We can’t stop here. This is bat country.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with a feline cast.
http://movie-cat.com/content/view/82/1/
Laura
December 27th, 2007 5:22 am
My article on starting an IRa without a lot of money is my most popular by far.
http://www.greenpandatreehouse.com/2007/12/03/how-to-start-an-ira-without-a-lot-of-money/
It’s pageview is double he 2nd most popular.
Unruly Jets Fan
December 27th, 2007 5:43 am
I actually nailed an interview with Chad Pennington of the Jets. Before that, I was just a hack writer. I weaseled my way by interviewing his foundation first. Then I had them owing me a favor. A little while later I asked if Chad would answer questions via email and he did.
It actually gave me the confidence to start another blog about HS Sports in Northern NJ which gets more hits than the Jets website. I also started writing for the local paper covering HS sports.
My HS blog is http://www.ironhillssports.com
Power Designer Blog
December 27th, 2007 5:58 am
Our design blog is online only for a very short amount of time and there are not that many post, but still we got the most popular: http://www.designblog.powerdesigner.pl/2007/12/designer-life-is-now-even-cooler.html
Jack
December 27th, 2007 6:00 am
Top 50 Most Popular Video Sites was (is still) mine.
I wrote it for blog marketers to encourage video syndication for links and traffic, and it turned into a top visited page on the web for people looking for video sites to simply find new stuff.
It was crazy trying to figure out how to monetize the traffic from a top ranking with a phrase with almost 1 billion results. Especially since I wasn’t expecting to land in the top 10 in Google for several video site related phrases and attract a lot of people who aren’t the target of my blog content in general.
Rob O.