Back in 2009 I decided to start this
blog just as something to do. I didn't have any long term goal for
it, but figured it would be a good way to write articles for people
who might be interested in reading them. Since then, ten years have
passed and surprisingly I have stuck with it. Some of the stats during
this time include:
- Over 500 articles published
- About 2.5 million page views
- Over 1000 comments
For the 10 year anniversary, I have
decided to recap the most popular posts from the blog during this
time. Here are the articles that were most popular:
The most popular articles came as a bit
of a surprise and they happened to be the ones I wrote each year
covering the Monopoly Collect and Win games. These are yearly
promotions done by grocery stores where you collect game tickets to
try to win prizes. In my articles, I help track the rare pieces
needed to win and because of this, the articles became very popular
with people playing the game.
Apparently I was not the only one who
was wondering what happened to Discovery Zone. A lot of other people
were searching for it too and happened to find this article. It ended
up getting a lot of comments from people sharing their experiences
about going to Discovery Zone when they were a kid.
Years ago I was in a situation where I
was exposed to a loud noise which hurt my ear and had a lasting
effect over many months. I could not find much advice or help on the
internet so I wrote about my own experience in hopes that it would
help others. It turns out many other people had also experienced a
similar situation and came to get advice and share what happened to
them.
Years ago I spotted evidence that their
might be mice getting into my kitchen. In this article I go over how
I found where they were getting in and how I solved the problem.
I had been getting a lot of spam phone
calls coming from phone numbers that looked similar to my own so I
decided to look into it and write about what I found. Based on the
popularity of the post, it seems this has been an issue that has
affected many other people so they came to this article looking for
answers.
My toilet had been making an annoying
whistling sound every time it flushed so I learned how to fix it and
then shared my experience in this article to help others who might
have the same issue. Turns out many other people did have this issue
so they came to this article for help on how to solve it.
What can we learn from the results?
Looking over the trends, what all of
these articles have in common is a topic where people were looking
for more information and wanted to learn more about. I'm glad to have
been able to provide helpful articles for people looking for
information in these cases.
This can be good advice for anyone out
there looking to write articles or share information on the internet.
Writing about what you know or what you have experienced in life can
be very helpful to others out there. We are all trying to learn more
as we go through life and the more advice we can share with each
other, the better off we will be!
