Next month represents my 7th anniversary as a blogger. I was looking yesterday at my top ten posts of all time. Beyond the usual suspects, I found it interesting to see which posts got legs and generated more views than others. Here they are, from the home office in Pella, Iowa. The top ten Wayfarer posts from seven years:
9. Day 19: Something that Never Fails to Make You Feel Better
8. Tom Vander Well meet Tom Vanderwell
7. Day 5: List Five Things that Irritate You About the Same/Opposite Sex
5. Striking a Chord: When a Blog Post Goes Viral
3. Day 2: How Have You Changed in the Past Two Years?
2. Speaking of Changes in Life
1. 10 Ways Being a Theatre Major Prepared Me for Success
As I look through the list, it’s a reminder to me of the blog posting mantra that Mike Sansone impressed up on me when I started. Always “link out” to another post, he told me. I can see that some of the posts on the top ten made it simply because they had been “linked” within a popular post. The more people read the popular post, the more likely some would click the link and explore what it had to say.
Blog on.
Good stuff, Tom. Happy blogiversary, pilgrim
Thanks, my friend. You are the blogging master. I’m a simply humble protoge trying to make ya proud. Cheers!