Completed: The WordPress postaday2011 Challenge

CAROLYN’S DAILY POSTS: 2011

COMPLETED:

THE WordPress postaday2011 CHALLENGE

     It is done. It is accomplished. The 2011 WordPress postaday2011 challenge is complete with this post.

     Even the eleven questions posed by WordPress concerning the postaday2011 experience are answered. Click on The WordPress postaday2011 Challenge to read the questions and the responses.

     Blessings and kudos to all others who accomplished this goal. For now, it’s time to take a rest from writing…Have a Happy, Joyful 2012.

     And keep writing…

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ADDITIONAL READING:

JANUARY DAYS OF CELEBRATION: Part 1

www.carolyncholland.wordpress.com  to read my personal writing site. Check the CATEGORY list in the right hand column to read stories in your personal interest area. SUBSCRIBE (upper right hand column) to receive e-mail notification of posts as they are posted.

www.carolyncholland2011.wordpress.com this site, to review postaday2011 writings

www.intertwinedlove.wordpress.com to read posts related to my historical novel-in-progress

www.beanerywriters.wordpress.com to read the Beanery Online Literary Magazine, supported by the Beanery Writers Group in Latrobe, Pennsylvania

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www.beanerywriters.wordpress.com

Maintaining Top Positions at a Former Blog Host Site

CAROLYN’S DAILY POSTS: 2011

MAINTAINING TOP POSITIONS

AT A FORMER BLOG HOST SITE

     My original host site for my blogs, proBlogs, had a reasonable setup for the purpose behind the Beanery Online Literary Magazine and my writing site. However, when the site changed ownership in 2007, it also changed its design. The new design did not meet the needs of either blog, so I changed host sites.

     While on proBlogs both sites I facilitated claimed the top hit (visitor) spots.

     I began the Beanery Online Literary Magazine blog on the new site in the fall of 2007, and my writing blog, Carolyn’s Compositions started in February, 2008  

     I revisit the proBlogs site occasionally, finding consistent statistics with those I saw when I visited it a few days ago. The two sites I managed still maintain top spots—albeit, eighth

Increasing Traffic to My Blogs

CAROLYN’S DAILY POSTS: 2011

INCREASING TRAFFIC TO MY BLOGS

 

     The WordPress question of May 9, 2011, was: How can we help you get more traffic for your posts? They suggested using two core features, both involving twitter and facebook. Unfortunately, I am not involved in either social network at this time.

     Although I would love more traffic to my site, I realize that commenters are more important, because they mean I have “connected.” Traffic for the sake of traffic, eg. spam traffic, doesn’t impress me.

     I’ve discovered connections are neat. My post (to continue reading click on Do I Want To Increase Traffic or To Increase Comments to My Blog?)

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ADDITIONAL READING:

KILLED STRANGELY: A NEW ENGLAND MURDER STORY

Adoptee Finds Biological Family: Mine

My Mother’s Secret: An Adoption Story

www.carolyncholland.wordpress.com

www.beanerywriters.wordpress.com

My Three Favorite Post a Day Posts: January through April 2011

CAROLYN’S DAILY POSTS: 2011

MY THREE FAVORITE POST A DAY POSTS:

JANUARY THROUGH APRIL 2011

Congratulations on completing month four of the challenge. Since January, you guys have collectively published almost 150,000 posts!

To celebrate being thirty three percent done with Post a Day/Post a Week, share your top three favorite posts that you’ve published since starting the challenge.

     As a participant in the WordPress Post a Day challenge, I must admit that my favorite post during the first four months of participating in the Post a Day challenge is actually a set of four posts concerning a very important event in my life—that of being

Our 100,000th Visitor Clicked on www.carolyncholland.wordpress.com

Around 2:15 p. m. this April 20th afternoon my friend Lois had the privilege of being the 100,000th visitor to my main writing site,  www.carolyncholland.wordpress.com. Although in the large scheme of things, 100,000 visitors is insignificant (considering some sites receive 10,000 visitors daily), it is still a major landmark. Thanks to readers who visit the site regularly. You have made my blog a success.

      Congratulations,  Lois!

Celebrate Carolyn’s Composition’s 90,000th Visit!

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CELEBRATE CAROLYN’S COMPOSITION’S 90,000th VISIT!

     90,000 visits!

     I want to thank you, my readers, for making this number happen. It’s the count on Carolyn’s Compositions as of about 3:30 a. m. this morning, February 22, 2011.

     When I awakened at 3:10 a. m. I checked the count I predicted would reach this landmark around 11:00 a. m., I saw that at 3:22 a. m. it was at 89,997. I boldly went ahead and clicked on five posts I wanted to review.

     At 3:45 a. m. I checked again. The count was

Are We Computer Addicted? A 1997 Prediction

CAROLYN’S DAILY POSTS: 2011

ARE WE COMPUTER ADDICTED? A 1997 PREDICTION

     …the term (Internet-addiction) was coined as a joke by New York City psychiatrist Ivan Goldberg, who was astonished that people took him seriously. “There ain’t no such thing!” he would howl to journalists…

…Yes, it is true that many people use the Internet for hours on end; and yes, it is true that a small percentage of those people go overboard,…But these people aren’t addicted, certainly not in the way that

How Does My Blogging Score?

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HOW DOES MY BLOGGING SCORE?

     I evaluated my blog, www.carolyncholland.wordpress.com, by using the blogging tips discussion written by Molly Campbell, Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Writing, a WordPress guest post.

     There were two sections, blogging and writing. I scored 39 out of

Post Statistics on My WordPress.com Blog

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(Jan. 13, 2011, 9:44 a.m.: 16 degrees, overcast, snowflake-clear air)

POST STATISTICS ON MY WORDPRESS.COM BLOG

      Call me WordPress challenged, blog challenged, computer challenged, technology challenged—whatever moniker you want to tag me with. It will explain how, after several years of managing up to five WordPress blogs, I just this week discovered some statistics on the sites that I didn’t realize were there.

     I’d been trying to analyze the popularity of posts on my blog, knowing it would be a monumental task. What I discovered is that the WordPress host site is doing the work for me in their statistics displays—which are provided for all-time, year, thirty days, seven days, and daily times..

     A review of the statistics reinforced my sense about the “popularity” of particular posts and reaffirmed my feelings about topics readers find most interesting, readable, and/or helpful. For all my feeling “challenged,” I know I must consider that recent posts will, due to the unequal time element, have less “hits.”   

     I also must admit that I am not following the advice of persons who are more expert at blogging than I am. That is, my blog does not have a “niche” topic. Because it is a writing blog topics have a wide range—BIBLICAL, blogging, Cats, COCHRAN’S SHENANIGANS, DEVOTIONS, GENEALOGY, HUMOR, JOURNAL, MEMOIRS, NEW ENGLAND, NOVEL SEGMENTS, OP-ED, PHOTOGRAPHY, Poetry, ROMANCE STORIES, TRAVEL, WRITING TOPICS, etc.

     My scrutiny of the statistics revealed what posts, and which categories, received the most attention.

     The top post is CHILD ABUSE AND SCRIPTURE. It has held one of the top three spots in the year, quarter, month, and week stats.

     Since the second contender,  (to continue reading this post click on: Statistical Analysis of My WordPress.com Blog )