The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 3,700 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 3 trips to carry that many people.
Click here to see the complete report.
What’s really fascinating about this is that I posted nothing on my blog in 2013. If you’ve been around the blogosphere for long you’ll probably have heard that “content is king”. The fact that my blog has had no new content in almost a year and still maintained a steady stream of visitors is proof of this.
So what was bringing in all this traffic? Turns out it was the set of tutorials I wrote about Joomla, a website platform much like WordPress. These tutorials where rich with natural keywords related to questions that many readers had, and their Google search queries lead them to my posts. The strong amount of keywords naturally included kept my pages high in the Google ranks, equalling more traffic.
So that’s my testimony! Despite my absence, my blog’s traffic climbed to over 10,000 views. Now that I’m back I’m hoping to take it even further.
Moral of the story: SEO works!
