Top 50 articles for 19th February 2005

Top 50 articles for 19th February 2005

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jema
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Posted: Sat Feb 19, 05 10:01 am Post subject: Top 50 articles for 19th February 2005

#	Title	Page Impressions
1	Chicken Keeping (2004-11-03 05:51:01)	2201
2	First steps in finding out about downsizing (2004-11-05 05:12:11)	2041
3	Top Ten Wild Foods to Gather in Winter (2004-12-02 12:15:22)	1991
4	Filing Cabinet Hot/Cold smoker (2004-10-26 05:49:42)	1815
5	In praise of the humble allotment (2004-10-26 10:23:26)	1534
6	Deck on a Hill (2004-10-26 04:07:12)	1511
7	Home wine making (2004-11-05 03:08:27)	1335
8	Top Ten Wild Mushrooms for the Beginner (2004-11-08 12:45:25)	1026
9	River Cottage Meat Book - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (2004-11-04 02:29:33)	929
10	Creating a Store-room (2004-11-14 15:29:09)	870
11	Mooncup Memoirs (2004-12-02 06:08:51)	548
12	Dustbin or Dinnertable? (2004-10-29 06:40:50)	524
13	LETS (Local Exchange Trading System) (2004-12-01 13:24:33)	504
14	Building Your Own Home (2004-12-02 10:00:36)	489
15	Food for thought for the downsizing homebuyer (2005-01-12 14:02:23)	485
16	Feeding Chickens (2004-11-09 17:03:31)	479
17	Top Ten Wild Foods in February (2005-01-31 17:05:14)	428
18	Keeping Geese…..easy as pie! (2004-12-14 05:24:49)	419
19	Going Organic Isn’t Just About Food (2004-12-09 05:50:41)	413
20	Carrier Bags are Rubbish (2004-12-14 05:03:54)	412
21	The Bridge Between Modern Living and Downshifting Is Crossable (2005-01-26 14:17:36)	396
22	Bread Making (2004-12-01 16:42:37)	391
23	Eggonomics or the maths for keeping chickens (2004-11-23 12:17:25)	378
24	Small Scale Coppice Production (2004-12-02 10:12:21)	376
25	Installing a wood burner (2004-11-22 09:46:34)	343
26	Creating a wood working shop (2004-11-18 11:23:55)	329
27	Chicken Concerns, Problems and Ailments (2004-11-28 11:22:19)	308
28	Wind power to the people! (2005-01-17 00:00:00)	290
29	Building your own incubator (2004-12-14 05:14:21)	287
30	Come and stay at Mullacott Farm (2005-01-30 03:46:34)	266
31	Personalised Knitting and more (2004-11-02 10:51:12)	265
32	Living Memorials (2004-11-15 13:31:50)	248
33	Big small wind power! (2004-11-18 07:24:34)	243
34	Going West: An Immigration Story (2005-01-05 16:02:40)	242
35	Don't pay the Ferryman! DIY funerals (2005-02-10 07:32:22)	226
36	How to... joint a rabbit (2004-11-09 09:00:13)	221
37	Sculptures, Trophies and Jewellery (2004-11-03 02:07:37)	208
38	Home Education Basics (2004-11-29 10:08:22)	208
39	Kerry Hill Knitting Yarn (2005-01-20 18:32:56)	201
40	Contact Us (2004-12-30 10:20:37)	200
41	Sloe Gin and Vodka (2004-11-09 09:12:03)	196
42	Worried? (2004-11-05 10:09:53)	192
43	Arkwrights Homebrew (2004-10-26 07:47:43)	188
44	Fleeces For Sale (2005-01-28 11:53:29)	188
45	Volunteering for HDRA (2004-12-30 15:40:07)	186
46	"A Taste of India" (2005-01-05 00:00:00)	179
47	Basic Guide to Safer Internet Use (2004-11-20 17:19:29)	176
48	Basic Stock Making - - Beef, Chicken, Fish (2004-11-05 06:28:15)	174
49	Real Christmas Spirit - Charity Fund instead of Christmas Cards (2004-12-03 12:15:37)	172
50	Hand crafted name plaques (2005-01-31 11:31:07)	172

Notable that the top 2 articles are getting 300 views a piece in the last week. Which roughly means day or night every 40 minutes someone is reading one of them. Many other articles are easily getting more than 100 views a week.
I don't think anyone can wonder of indeed they ever did about how worthwhile it is to write for the site

It is also notable that some of the adverts that have fallen off the front page, are still seeing 20 views a week.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Sat Feb 19, 05 10:36 am Post subject:
Are most of the visits to the top two articles due to search engine hits?

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28111
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Sat Feb 19, 05 11:14 am Post subject:
Chicken keeping I would say for certain most are. First steps is harder to tell, as the search terms could be quite a few things.

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Tue Feb 22, 05 6:06 pm Post subject:
I'm startled that Wild food in Feb. has picked up so many hits. I wasn't entirely sure that it was worth going monthly with those, but it looks like it is.

jema
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Posts: 28111
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Tue Feb 22, 05 7:52 pm Post subject:

Cab wrote:

I'm startled that Wild food in Feb. has picked up so many hits. I wasn't entirely sure that it was worth going monthly with those, but it looks like it is.

Clearly it is woth doing, getting about 20 reads a day at the moment

Which as we tail off toward March is pretty good going.

But these types of monthly articles are timeless. Assuming we are still going in 10 years time. We would still be prominantly showing off that article in February.

When consider any type of monthly thing like this, we have to think long term

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