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I realized yesterday as I sifted throgh my blog archives that while my catchy post titles amuse me, they do me about 0% good (okay, maybe 2%) when I want to go back and figure out when I wrote about a specific topic. This is why I don’t come up with my own book titles. And also why I’ve worked so hard (not) to replace the blog title I have for today.
I was looking at my top ten posts for the last month – those that got the most hits. Not surprisingly, all of the blogfests are on the list. But I was surprised Scott’s guest posts are on the top of the list as well. Okay, at the bottom of the top ten, but still…made me wonder if it’s because I like them the most so I retweet the links the most, or if the rest of everyone is actually reading them.
I could make some assumptions. That’s my job. Looking at statistics and drawing conclusions. The other guest post from Max and Lexi made the top ten, too. If I was asking a client to pay me based on blog traffic, I would say it was because they were brilliant posts.
If I was me and analyzing my own blog traffic I would say it was because they get the fewest comments (ignoring the fact that it’s really hard to comment on imaginary people talking to each other when they don’t say anything relevant to the reader), so I keep tweeting the links all day in an effort to pretend someone besides me thinkgs I’m being clever.
So…keep doing the Scott posts, or ditch them?
My top posts vary, even on my blog where I post all my blogfest entries. On It’s in the Book my top posts are: my broken heart blogfest announcement, 100th blog post, snack bar (post about snacks during nanowrimo), and two posts over the one giveaway I held on the blog. On my Dawn Embers blog the top posts are: romance novel covers, announcements, the non-writing post about the turducken I made for thanksgiving, worldbuilding and boy v girl books.
It is very interesting considering some of the top posts barely had any comments yet well over 100 views. Even the blogfest entries with the most comments didn’t make the top views list. Obviously, views and commentable posts are very different. I know some of my friends don’t even comment on my blogs, but I know they at least read the content. So it’s not that unusual after all.
I think you can do character posts occasionally. Even do different characters eventually. It is fun though I can say a full blog of characters talking doesn’t get quite as much attention. But an occasional post keeps it interesting and provides how you can write through your characters’ point of view. I don’t comment on them unless I can figure out what to say. Maybe I’ll start commenting through one of my characters when you do those posts. Should be fun!