My Radical Blogs

My Radical Blogs is heading towards its first birthday - I cannot believe it is nearly a year old already. When I look back at my early work I notice a big change to how I write compared to today. Over the next week or two I am going to spend a little time going over what has, and hasn’t, worked for me; what I have liked and disliked; which posts where popular; and which posts I though were good but failed to spark much in the way of comments.

Today’s review is a mix of the posts that proved popular by way of comment numbers, along with some of my favorite posts. It has been a strange year. I started off a little aimless, took aim with blog reviews which I enjoyed doing, but found most bloggers a little apathetic to them. From there I lost track, and a little focus, particularly when I started writing on other blogs. This has left me a little time poor. I think apathy is a double edged sword. Lack of reader numbers and comments leads to more apathy, the results being less post, poorer quality, and fewer readers.

I have plans to change all that from the beginning of next month having finally decided on the direction I intend to go. As readers, you will either appreciate it, or not. How does that song go - “It’s my blog, and I’ll write how want to” (to the tune of it’s my party - anyone remember it?).

My favorite posts, and some of yours - lets get to them - there were so many. I spend some time learning WordPress inside out and back to front. As I picked up tips and ways to improve my blog, I passed them on. One of the most visited was How to optimize your WordPress blogs for speed, a post that brought numerous comments. I regularly talk about plugins and what has or has not worked along with any workarounds if I find them. This post on Plugins By The Bucketload was extremely popular, at least for the links to everyone else

The most popular posts were the lists. People are right - we all love lists. The first one was a good one showing you how you could Forget Adsense - Here Are 140 Alternatives To Consider.  Another income related blog that brought some traffic was How I Quadrupled My Blog Income, I don’t know why, but visitors enjoyed it.

I also discovered interesting facts about making money online, for exampl, Your Tip N Run Visitors Are Costing You Adsense Dollars, a look at Google and how traffic affects Adsense.

Other list posts that were popular included 100+ Bookmarking Sites To Drive Your Traffic - or drive you crazy - it certainly drove me crazy. Directories can be great for backlinks and increased PageRank so I sourced Free Directories With PR4+ Ranking - enough to keep you going for a week.

That’s my brief roundup of posts from the last 12 months.

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