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The Best and Worst of June 2014
I can’t believe it’s July 6th already, but then again when you have tech problems time seems to fly. So yes, it’s a little late for my Best and Worst of article but I guess it’s better late than never. Other than my ridiculous tech problems June was actually pretty good. Work is picking up as the tourists flow into town and the weather is finally, finally starting to smarten up. Luckily I’m not in the part of Saskatchewan that’s flooded or has experienced tornadoes.
Anyway, here are the best five articles of June 2014:
1. Why Girls Hate Game of Thrones—A Rebuttal
2. How to Read 100 Pages in an Hour
3. The Hunger Games and Ancient Rome
4. Your Open Book Promotion Thread
5. I’ve Been Invaded by Gremlins!
For the fourth month in a row, I have broken my monthly stats record! Instead of the 13,316 views of May, in June I received 14,198 views. As with the previous months, I have the TV show Game of Thrones to thank for that as my rebuttal article received 8,581 views or about 60% of my total traffic for that month. I have the hugely popular season 4 finale to thank for that, I think.
So what were the worst articles in this record-breaking month?
1. Graphic Novel Review: Batgirl Volume II: Knightfall Descends by Gail Simone
2. Discussion: Romance in YA Novels
4. I am More Than Just a Chronic Pain Statistic
5. The Best and Worst of April 2014
Meh, none of these are surprising or worrying. The only real trend I’ve noticed among the five worst articles is that Scott Westerfeld’s books seem to pop up a lot. It’s not because he’s not a popular author but maybe because I actually liked the books. I seem to get a lot more traffic from reviews where I didn’t like the book.
So how was your June?
The Best and Worst of April 2014
Remember how, back in my January installment of this series I said it would be along time before I broke my monthly views record of 8,228? I broke that record last month in March and then I thought to myself, “Well there’s no way I’m going to break the record again so soon.” Enter April 2014, my best month ever. In April I broke both my daily stats record and my monthly views record. The previous daily record was 861, the new record is 918 views on April 6. My previous monthly record was 8,941 views and my new record is 11,905 views. I was also able to welcome 54 new followers to my blog for a total of 842 followers. Now that is a good month to make up for the stress and general awfulness of my personal life right now.
Now without further ado let’s look at my top 5 articles:
1. Why Girls Hate Game of Thrones—A Rebuttal
2. The Hunger Games and Ancient Rome
3. How to Read 100 Pages in an Hour
4. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
5. How Not to Criticize a Book Reviewer
Thanks to Game of Thrones Season 4 premiering on television my statistics on my Game of Thrones article, which have always been high, skyrocketed. Just to give you an idea of how crazy it was I have to say that of the 11,905 views I received this month, 6,895 of them were on my rebuttal article alone (that’s 58%!). The second best article by comparison only received 343 views. That’s insane.
So which articles were the worst this month?
1. City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
2. The Goddess Test by Aimée Carter
3. The Mad Reviewer’s 2013 Holiday Book Buying Guide (Part Two)
4. Writing the Popular Novel by Loren D. Estleman
5. The Oracle of Delphi Blog Tour Kick-Off and Giveaway
Meh. I think it’s pretty obvious why all of these are in the bottom 5 list this month. They’re either really old posts or posts that just aren’t relevant anymore because of things like blog tours ending and Christmas being 8 months away. As usual, my 5 worst list doesn’t bother me in the least because I know it’ll be different next month.
Well folks, that was pretty much my April: pretty bad in real life, awesome in the blogosphere. How was your April? When do you experience spikes in blogging traffic?