Project: Site Statistics
Last month, I got an invitation to participate in Photonovice’s project on blog statistics. It involved discussing “shocking, funny, awakening or otherwise special search term or list of terms you noticed in your blog statistics.” Unfortunately, I didn’t find any interesting search terms to share back then. Back then, “cactus pt-04″ and “pt-04 trigger” were my top search terms. There was nothing surprising there, especially since one of my first posts was about Cactus PT-04 RF Triggers.
It’s a good thing that was only the beginning of the Photonovice project. Now, we’re discussing our most popular posts, and this time, I’m jumping right in.
There’s no doubt in my mind that the post 4 Reasons to Never Delete Images From Your Camera is my most popular post. Compared to any other entry I’ve posted here, this post has gotten over 4 times as many visitors. If you want to go by the number of comments, this post is still at the top of the heap. Heck, this single post has had more pageviews than the blog’s home page and the portfolio combined. It looks like quite a lot of people have had bad experiences with their cameras’ delete buttons.
Of course, I know that other people played a big part in that little post’s popularity. One day last December, Antoine Khater decided to discuss 7 Bad Habits of Digital Photographers over at Brian Auer’s little photography resource. For some reason, he decided to throw in a link to me (see item #5), and because of this, created an anomaly in my site statistics. I’m not complaining, of course. In fact, I’d like to take this opportunity to once again thank Antoine and Brian. You’ve screwed up my analytics, but I’m still very thankful.
update:
I’ve decided to mention my top 5 posts. Added up, posts 2 through 5 still haven’t gotten as many page views as the top dog, but I think they still get quite a bit of attention. So, here are my top 5 posts:
- 4 Reasons to Never Delete Images From Your Camera
- How to Shoot (Photographs) Like A Terrorist
- Testing My DIY Grid Spot
- Items You Must Have in Your Camera Bag
- 6 Gifts for Photographers Under $25
• Luis • 19 April 2008 •
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