The Statistics link on ActiveRain shows how many comments, views, and clicks your blog posts have received over time. I was actually shocked to see that one of my posts here on ActiveRain had been viewed over 103,000 times yet only had 18 comments. WOW! Now that's some great traffic and exposure rainers. It wasn't even a post I felt deserved to get that many views...
Digging further into the AR stats investigation, I noticed many posts had 10,000 views or more. Would this information be useful to share with other readers and subscribers? How would you even know or find them since the stats info is private? How can you use and share your stats most viewed posts on ActiveRain? This is just one way to share your "TOP BLOGS" with others.
10 TOP things I learned by doing this exercise:
- Out of 583 posts I've written here, these are the "TOP WINNERS" based on "Over 10K Views"
- It's interesting and re-assuring to see how your writing skills will change and develop over time
- Comments aren't the most important thing on your AR Blog, but views and clicks are significant
- Over time, your posts are still being viewed thanks to ActiveRain SEO and Google searches
- By running through your AR Statistics link, you can provide a single post with your best content
- Copying and Pasting your ActiveRain Statistics into an Excel file lets you do some amazing fact finding
- This exercise will help you determine what content works best for views and clicks year over year
- Adding "How To" into your Blog post title can increase your views and clicks dramatically (lol)
- CAUTION: You'll get excited to see how much traffic. views, and clicks your AR Blog actually gets
- The important thing I learned is Blogging on ActiveRain generates SEO, traffic, views, and business!
The information below is to try and provide you with some ideas and ways on how to populate your best content into a single location. This could be done using a blog post, an RSS feed, or a table with links on your sidebar or website. The first step in knowing which content and posts you wish to share is knowing what articles are getting the most attention and drawing the most traffic. It was very useful to see which ones sparked the most interest, views, and clicks. Here are my TOP 10K most viewed posts on ActiveRain.
WARNING: You may be surprised at your results when you run your own ActiveRain Statistics.
Blog Post Title Comments Views Clicks
| Active Rain INSTRUCTIONS: How to Post your Listings | 366 | 14397 | 14396 |
| How Old Is Your Computer? ..."In Computer years" | 47 | 11267 | 9810 |
| Computers and your HEALTH! | 18 | 103633 | 99667 |
| The Short Sale - Can be a Long Sail... | 44 | 12960 | 11445 |
| Active Rain New Members - Getting Started | 121 | 16613 | 15537 |
| Paying It Forward, Active Rain Style - 100 Links You MUST See! | 256 | 11046 | 9614 |
| Do You Want to be the "Featured Member" Here's Some POINTS! | 706 | 23542 | 19928 |
| 5 Principles to Creating an Effective Blog Post | 214 | 15244 | 11723 |
| The California Foreclosure Process & Timeline | 63 | 22067 | 19036 |
| Update Your Verizon Wireless Handsets - Can You Hear Me Now? | 41 | 15019 | 12295 |
| Blogger Startup Kit | 191 | 16241 | 10347 |
| 20 Google Tools for Your Business | 272 | 14070 | 8730 |
| 7 Mistakes to Avoid on Active Rain | 639 | 23764 | 19247 |
| Widgets: How to Add Them to Your Blog | 231 | 15741 | 12708 |
| Google Earth - The Whole World In Your Hands! | 92 | 21615 | 17497 |
| Do You Want Visitors Searching Your Blog? | 271 | 10335 | 3184 |
| Video and Your Blog - Featuring Future Technology | 106 | 11792 | 4298 |
| Marketing and Farming Your Blog | 239 | 11360 | 4263 |
| 3 Ways To Find Out Who's Reading Your Blog | 367 | 16705 | 9587 |
| Your Active Rain Profile - Your Masterpiece! | 237 | 15392 | 9561 |
| Active Rain Settings & SEO Benefits - Very Powerful | 228 | 15398 | 8656 |
| How To Use Your AR "Settings" Page | 501 | 26101 | 18706 |
| How to Add a Power Point Presentation to Your Blog | 114 | 11484 | 6165 |
| NEW MEMBERS - Start Here | 263 | 21433 | 15308 |
| Overcoming Adversity, Change & Life's Challenges | 207 | 13034 | 6824 |
| Real Estate Video Hosting - Dare To Compare | 118 | 10947 | 5011 |
| Email Signatures - How Good/Bad Are They? | 205 | 10913 | 6060 |
| ActiveRain Navigation - For New Members | 175 | 23791 | 18481 |
| How To Customize and Personalize Your ActiveRain Blog | 305 | 19403 | 13347 |
| How to Use The Flip Video Camera with Your Computer | 117 | 14760 | 9691 |
| SEO Tools - You Should Know, about SEO | 136 | 19853 | 14674 |
| ActiveRain Launches Outside Blogs - How Do You Get Yours? | 860 | 36504 | 27251 |
| 3 Ways to Use the "Join ActiveRain" Referral Link | 120 | 11261 | 5755 |
| The "NEW" ActiveRain Blog Customizer - Version 2.0 | 237 | 14254 | 7078 |
| ActiveRain and Your NEW Twitter Settings | 158 | 11405 | 3742 |
| New Members - Video Explanations - Social Media, Blogging & MORE! | 98 | 10509 | 3743 |
| The ActiveRain Suggestion Box | 0 | 12515 | 7219 |
| How To Use ActiveRain Channels | 228 | 10459 | 5624 |
| Karen George - Goodbye to an Angel | 162 | 12213 | 7252 |
| ActiveRain Widgets & The New and Approved HTML List | 292 | 14440 | 6036 |
| How To Remove Antivirus Pro 2009 VIRUS from your Computer | 163 | 15145 | 7049 |
| Copyright Laws and You - Here's All You'll EVER Need To Know | 155 | 11862 | 3072 |
| Hit Router - How To Set Up Your Own Click Campaign | 138 | 12113 | 5780 |
| ActiveBrad's "TOP FREE Picks" | 232 | 16429 | 9195 |
| Google Local - Register Your Business and Blog | 120 | 10850 | 2163 |
| New ActiveRain Widgets for ActiveBlogs | 124 | 12647 | 3513 |
| ActiveRain Domains and Blogs - The AR Staff "LIVE" and Uncensored | 79 | 13144 | 4613 |
| Internet Explorer vs Mozilla Firefox - The Mythunderstanding | 152 | 11283 | 2616 |
| 5 Important Tips - Outside Blogs | 146 | 10989 | 3201 |
| How To Create an ActiveRain Outside ActiveBlog - 10 Easy Steps | 161 | 15536 | 6099 |
| ActiveBlogs - 5 Suggested Ways To Maximize Your New Group Blogs | 156 | 11360 | 3634 |
| A Special Delivery from Santa and His "RAIN"deer! | 108 | 14472 | 7905 |
| Hit Router - How To Setup & Save Your Own Traffic | 213 | 19347 | 8737 |
| ActiveRain Launches Google Analytics for Outside Blogs | 137 | 10302 | 4128 |
| ActiveBlogs - Link Love and SEO | 193 | 14369 | 4870 |
| The New ActiveRain Badges | 342 | 16543 | 5189 |
| ActiveRain's NEW RainMaker Membership Plan | 795 | 33365 | 21284 |
| The ActiveRain Ambassador Program | 270 | 12459 | 5812 |
| ActiveRain Community Search - HGTV’s "House Hunters" Is Now Casting | 185 | 14260 | 7128 |
| REALTORS® - Important 100K Announcement! | 138 | 13661 | 7185 |
| How To Setup and Maximize Hit Router for Generating Leads | 90 | 12050 | 4999 |
| How to Create a Blog Post for Customers and Search Engines | 364 | 24434 | 16532 |
| The ActiveRain RainMaker - Getting Results! | 85 | 10115 | 3763 |
| What Is RainCamp™ | 90 | 11806 | 3584 |
| RainCamp is Coming To San Francisco | 116 | 12064 | 4944 |
| RainCamp - Our New Training Program - Starts In Seattle, WA | 154 | 10757 | 3484 |
| ActiveRain Training and Support - Our New On-Line Campus | 128 | 10984 | 4716 |
| The Virtual Real Estate Brokerage and Office - WEB 3.0 | 159 | 18042 | 11257 |
| RainCamp™ Platinum Access Pass and Upcoming Locations | 108 | 10767 | 2558 |
| How To Create and Use iFrames and Tables on Your Blog | 148 | 10178 | 3003 |
| How To Use ScribeFire to Enhance Your ActiveRain Blog Posts | 164 | 12376 | 4100 |
| How To Use Google's Wonder Wheel | 86 | 18814 | 12666 |
| How To Use Interactive Google Maps Using Google Base Data | 88 | 10274 | 3878 |
| How To Create HyperLinks to Anchor Text | 112 | 10580 | 2894 |
| The ActiveRain Manual - NEW & IMPROVED | 125 | 10299 | 2711 |
| An ActiveRain Conduit - Toolbar for Your WEB Browser | 128 | 10237 | 2680 |
| New and Improved ActiveRain Leaderboard | 44 | 14174 | 822 |
| Who's Calling The Shots on ActiveRain - The New "Called Shots" Feature | 145 | 10170 | 2997 |
| Look What We May Have Started with The ActiveRain Point System | 108 | 11871 | 2816 |
| ActiveRain's NEW "Suggest For Feature" Button | 151 | 12701 | 3465 |
| How To Brand Yourself an Expert & Build a Six-Figure Real Estate Business | 62 | 14715 | 5832 |
| How To Create and Maximize Your ActiveRain Blog Post | 85 | 13433 | 4439 |
| Top 50 Google Tools for Business | 118 | 13710 | 4820 |
| The New "Like" Button for Facebook on ActiveRain Blogs | 101 | 11098 | 3228 |
| Winner Announcement of the "Life! By Design Contest" By Tom Ferry | 57 | 10061 | 2132 |
| Using Gmail Email as a Blog Post and HTML Editor | 103 | 10536 | 2497 |
| It's Official - Going From "A" to "Z" | 235 | 10208 | 2236 |
| The Real Estate Industry - It's not Just a Job, It's an Adventure! | 181 | 10826 | 1677 |
| How To Design a Facebook Page | 85 | 10125 | 1282 |
| Call Phones from Gmail - Now We're Talking! | 80 | 10741 | 1229 |
| Following Others On Twitter Without an Account - Twitter Fast Follow | 61 | 10680 | 1122 |
| Marketing and Advertising On ActiveRain - A Time and A Place | 41 | 10535 | 1974 |
| The ActiveRain Featured Blog Post | 171 | 11596 | 2489 |
| How To Create Your Customized QR Code Images | 158 | 11410 | 4776 |
I'm anticipating another great year for members on ActiveRain and I'm especially looking forward to seeing how many views posts will get in 2011? I wonder if this post will hit the 10K mark? haha~ Maybe I should go back and add "How To" in the title? lol~
"Learn More. Get More. Do More. Be More."
Hi Brad...Wow Lots on Content here, It is exciting to see how many lurkers are reading and viewing your posts..I too look to see which subjects bring the most viewers...in my Case it appears to be mostly Real Estate stats for a neighborhood or property Listing
Well Done...have a great week!
Activerain is one of the strongest tools out there.. The more relationships I build on this site and also the better content I make my blogs I noticed the more hits I get.. Nothing compared to your STATS. But I will get there.. Great post Brad.
Brad very interesting observations, as always.....now I am just thinking out loud.Do you think some of the Comments increased while you were the Community Manager for AR? and before and after the numbers decreased but the viewing remained high due to good information?
Brad, the statistic information interesting. Additionally, I've bookmarked this post because you have provided a nice summary of great sounding/informative articles that I missed reading when initially posted. Thanks! I'm off to check my statistics now.
Endre - excellent observation and comment. I absolutely believe that as an employee of ActiveRain I was exposed to more views and comments via the tutorials and featured "how-to" posts, but I also believe it was those various types of posts that helped land me the job here at ActiveRain.
I know for a fact that there are members on AR right now that are NOT employees and have way more views, comments, and clicks than I do. I don't believe for one minute that the views and clicks have anything to do with "status" as much as they do with the titles and content.
FYI - a "View" means the reader saw your post on a blogroll somewhere on AR including the feature board. A "Click" means they actually clicked on the title to go into your post and read it. A "View" does not necessarily mean they read your post, it's possible that it just scrolled by on their screen. "Clicks" in my opinion would be of the most value and significance. :-)
I have seen similar things when checking stats. Makes you wonder why more people don't comment if they read the post.
Wow, so impressive. And I did recently look and I was suprised. First- hyper local posts work and second... people apparently Google some really strang things.
Brad - These are some incredible stats. also, a few great posts on here that I missed and will try to catch up on.
I really wish they had a way for us to sort these based on # of clicks. I will try to download to excel but that's rather time consuming given the number of posts I have.
At the end of the yr David Popoff challenged us to do our Top 10 for 2010 and I will prob. do that each yr. ironically one of my most popular ones is stupid video but the topic is "how to hire a contractor you can trust" so it gave me good insight as to how I could get to this idea in other ways.
Brad - those are some pretty impressive numbers... Gosh I'll bet I still have some of these bookmarked... lol
Brad
Incredible stats, and a bunch of posts I need to go back and read. Somehow I see the result being a to of bookmarks.
I check my stats on an almost obsessive basis. It's good to know which posts are generating the largest audience. Great stuff here Brad...as always.
Those are some impressive stats. Looking at the list, I need to go read some of those posts!
Thanks for the homework Brad. I really need to key in on what drives traffic to my blog to make it useful to me as an agent. Looks like I have some homework to do. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
Brad, as already noted, you position and nature of help posts would have gotten a lot of attention here which would account for the views and clicks. I'm making the comment, just so you can add to that comment total as well.
I have just learned about the statistics page. Thanks for the information. I'm starting to get an idea how all this works. I'll have to check out some of your earlier blogs ;o)
Brad, I can see I'm going to be busy reading these posts over the next few weeks.
Hmmmmm.....interesting satistics... thanks for getting this out today.
Patricia/Seacoast NH & ME
Brad,
You have posted some fair information. Some people may simply enjoy reading, not always feeling compelled to comment [to bolster someones stats ...but to be nice, I thought I'd do my part for you.
Have a great week,
Steven Zimmerman Realtor ABR GRI
Living & Seller Florida's Waterfront Lifestyle in GULF HARBORS
on the Gulf of Mexico
Okay, I'm even more imporessed now. Forget the guitar on your phone...lol.
And I look at mine and I see the more I have about local things, listings, events, the more I am viewed...guess I'm the event lady.
Hello Brad,
103,000 views? or 10,300 views...that's almost half the AR membership. And, only 18 comments...makes no sense to me - at all. Which one was it? I see you have almost always 10,000 or more readers. But I didn't see 103,000??? There were possibly only that many members in 2007???
However, I see what you have at the top...going to investigate further as I want to read it too!
Miss you here on AR!!!
Great tip on adding"how to" to yourblogs. Will definitely try itin my blog.
Interesting blog, Brad. Also interesting statistics. I am a "numbers person," so I will take a look.
Hi Brad.... I sure did learn so much on this post !!! " How to " is so important !!! Thank You
Brad, I love this, I forget how many different tools that are provided here, I remember looking at stats on my blog over a year ago and totally forgot, I just went back to see what people were looking at, incredibly beneficial information
Very interesting post Brad. It is a very interesting that such a small percentage of "viewers" make comments. We suspect that many viewers do value reading the blog but don't necessarily believe that they have anything to contribute to that particular discussion. We wholeheartedly support "lurkers".
In my case, only 20 or so each year got over 10K views, this means you have to blog, Blog, BLOG if you want to get your content out there and viewed in volume. That's only 80 or so out of 583 total. Not everything we produce will get us views, comments, clicks, and business, but every post and every effort will produce something for sure. Sometimes it's the unknown and magical things that happen that are the most rewarding.
Brad,
Love the data. I did do the top 10 for last year and it was interesting to see. None are close to 10k, but I'm working on it.
I do wish AR would make it easier for us to do stats analysis by ranking them or giving us the option of doing that!
All the best, Michelle
Love all of your content, as you are always helping us, even when you are not here at AR. Miss you- going to look at my stats and read some of these...
Here's a great example of Craig's Catalog which is another great sample and idea of ways to combine your best content for your viewers:
http://activerain.com/blogsview/2160026/craig-s-classroom-catalog
Great job Craig, nicely done!!
When I first started blogging I found it interesting that some of them got several comments and some a couple, and when I was lucky, featured. But often there were quite a few people went to them but did not comment. Since I have my own blogging style, I am still analyzing what got me comments. The long and short of it, I now blog what I want, period. Comments are great, but I don't worry about it when I don't. Because people are still reading them!!!
Brad - an interesting exercise but the best benefit for your efforts for us is the detailed links to some of your great posts here in the rain
Hi Brad - I agree with Kathy's comment above.
With my stats, I find that some of my most popular posts with respect to non-ActiveRain views and with extremely high click through rates are not related to real estate at all. One post less than 3 weeks old has 1,200 views with an 88% click-through rate - the topic? Why am I receiving a $67.41 check from the telephone company. Oh, and I have been also been receiving phone calls about whether the check should be cashed.
Hello Brad
Very impressive! I need to read many of these as I am sure they will be a great learning experience
Brad, Thank you. I have missed reading many of the posts. I will bookmark this and read them later. I have a lot of reading to do.
Brad, I am a Six Sigma Black Belt, yet had never thought to analyze my blogging in such detail, thanks for the inspiration.
And your name comes up first on Google for just putting in Activerain.
I noticed it the other day, then went and checked again before writing this post.
Missy - you must be joking right? Haha~ You have been one of the greatest inspirations to me on this network and getting to know you over the years has been more fun than one person should be allowed! Thanks for always being there through thick and thin!! :-)
Fred - lurkers are good! These are the folks that end up working with you down the road.....
Stacey - AR can be a phenomenal tool, and your stats over time will exceed mine, just stick with it.
Sondra - it's almost a shame that others can't view our blogs by stats too, that would change things drastically.
Brad ..I love reading your posts! You are always so Helpful
Hannah
Inspirational! Kristine
Wow, such a useful post. I've never checked my stats. but it may be time to start.
Thanks you guys, looks like this one still has a ways to go.... :-)
Brad, I just added up how many of your links I just clicked - 23. Thank goodness for right clicks. Thanks!
One suggestion for RainCamp's would be to have a station where RainMakers can gave a staff member review their stats, blogs, etc. and make quick suggestions and point out which links they should be reading to improve.
I look forward to seeing you again somewhere down the road. We finally met at the RainCamp in New Orleans last year.
Thanks brad! You have a lot of audience!
Jim - great idea, I'll be at all the raincamps and think your suggestion is a good one. I'll pass it on to the others... Thanks.
Thanks Brad now I will have to back and check out the statistics on my posts. Amazing that after all this time I have never really looked into this helpful tool.
Brad - love this! I think I have most of these bookmarked for reference but if not am book marking this!!! I check out my statistics from time to time but they are nothing like this. Incredible!!!
Roy - thanks, I think you'll find it very helpful and useful.
DeeDee - thank you, I always love seeing your comments on my posts... your stats are just as good as mine, I worked here at AR for so long, many of my stats come from all the great friends I've made here just like YOU! :-)))
Oh I had to bookmark this one for future reference. We had a little contest on New Years of what where your top 10 AR posts of 2010, some great responses.
http://activerain.com/blogsview/2049372/what-were-your-10-best-activerain-post-in-2010-
This was very helpful.
Great positive encouragement for all of us bloggers.
It assures us that our posts are being seen, and are making an impact on others