It's My Blog Birthday!

Andrea R Huelsenbeck

Jun 3

Eight years ago today I posted my first article on ARHtistic License. Since then, I've posted 4,425 more, and found my blogging voice.

In the past year, my blog has grown from 1334 followers to 1417, an increase of only 5%. It makes me sad that it's so stagnant. I hope I can grow to 2000 followers by this time next year. How do I do that? Beats me.

I recently wrote a post about my all-time most popular articles, so I won't repeat those statistics.

My all-time best blogging day was September 2, 2022, when my blog got 469 hits. I don't know why. My average for 2023 so far is 50 views per day. I wish it were double that.

My most popular post in the past year was Quilting Frustration, which has been viewed almost 1,400 times. I guess the title struck a nerve with a lot of quilters.

On WordPress, it's really tedious to determine the next most popular posts in the past year. It's a little easier to find stats for a single calendar year.

My most viewed posts so far in 2023 (have you seen them all?):

10. NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 7

9. WordPress is Losing its Place in my Heart

8. NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 23

7. NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 15

6. NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 8

5. NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 13

4. I'd Rather Be Dancing Sacred Circle Dances

3. NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 6

2. Quilt Arizona! 2023 Part I

1. An Interview with Andrew Carnie, Folk Dance Enthusiast and Linguistics Professor

My most liked posts so far in 2023:

10. Creative Juice #327

9. Wordless Wednesday/ Flower of the Day: Butterfly and Lantanta

8. NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 13

7. NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 5

6. Wordless Wednesday/ Flower of the Day: African Daisies

5. NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 23

4. NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 6

3. Flower of the Day: Century Plant

2. NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 16

1. Wordless Wednesday/ Flower of the Day: Marigolds

I love blogging challenges for two reasons. First, they give me an ~~excuse~~ opportunity to do some of the creative things I love to do. Second, participants check out what other participants post. Many of my top posts are challenge entries. There's a little bit of overlap between the two categories. NaPoWriMo is a poetry challenge held every April. Wordless Wednesday and Flower of the Day are photography challenges.

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