Sunday, April 07, 2013

Making A Mark notches up 2 million visits

Last week Making A Mark notched up 2 MILLION visits and has very nearly achieved 3 MILLION page loads.  

However I was about to succumb to the nasty cold/flu bug for the third time(!) and hence missed the moment!

Making A Mark - Statistics as at 7th April 2013
However I knew more or less when it happened so took a look at the early morning stats on Thursday 4th April and picked out a referring blog which has been a regular friend of this blog.

I'll be writing to Jana Bouc (Jana's Journal) - whose blog regularly sends visitors to my blog - and will be sending her an Amazon voucher for 'making her mark' and generating the two millionth visitor to Making A Mark!

I've introduced Pages to the blog (see top) since the last big review two years ago (Making A Mark notches up 1 million visits). When reviewing the most popular posts, I found it interesting this time that some of the most popular posts are actually the Resource Pages at the top of the blog.

  • Did you know that most of the visits to my blog are actually accessing the archives?  The trick to generating traffic is to promote accessible archives about information which is of perennial interest!
  • If you've not yet considered using the Pages function in Blogger you might want to give it a thought.  I use it to enable people to access recurring themes on this blog. 

Here are some of the most popular posts (and pages) those two million visits have been to.   

Art Business & Marketing

Mixing Complementary Colours Using Coloured Pencils
sample by Katherine Tyrrell
Art Exhibitions 
Techies

I find it really sad that in the last year people have had to become so protective of their images following the advent of Pinterest.  I think I was one of the first to take a stand and say it doesn't need to be like this - hence the popularity of the following posts round about this time last year

PS I wrote about a post back in 2010 called Now we are 5! (12 Top Tips for being a Long Term 'Daily' Blogger).  

That should provide the answers to any questions about how I keep going!
Posted by Making A Mark on Sunday, April 07, 2013
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8 comments:

  1. Bridget HunterMonday, April 08, 2013

    Congratulations on a wonderful achievement

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  2. shevaunMonday, April 08, 2013

    Congratulations, Katherine! I don't think there is a better resource page for botanical artists out there. You've certainly kickstarted more than one artistic journey with your posts, including mine. Here's to the next milestone!!

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  3. shevaunMonday, April 08, 2013

    Congratulations, Katherine! I don't think there is a better resource page for botanical artists out there. You've certainly kickstarted more than one artistic journey with your posts, including mine. Here's to the next milestone!!

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  4. Colours and TexturesMonday, April 08, 2013

    Congratulations!

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  5. David TeterMonday, April 08, 2013

    Congratulations Katherine!
    I'm not surprised at all since you are tireless in your work here and all your blogs.
    You have talked about slimming down 'Who's made a Mark' recently but not long after starting 'Who painted this?' You'll never slow down.
    I can't think of any other blogs that have this sort of interactive regular post much like sending us out on a scavenger hunt, so fun and we learn and discover.
    Keep posting and inventing.

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  6. David TeterMonday, April 08, 2013

    Oh darn, I meant to ask, What are unique visits?

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  7. Making A MarkMonday, April 08, 2013

    Unique visits are when you don't count the number of times a person may revisit the site within a set time period. It's one of the main reasons why you get differences as to the number of visits between different stats systems - it's usually because they define the time period differently.

    Unique visitors is also different from pageviews. Making A Mark has had some 3 million pageviews over the same period. That's where people who come to look at one post go on to look at others.

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  8. UnknownTuesday, April 09, 2013

    Congratulations. What a fabulous achievement!

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