Genea-Musings Statistics for 2009 - Post 2

I posted Genea-Musings Statistics for 2009 - Post 1 yesterday with charts and numbers for visits, page views and RSS subscribers of this blog.

What did all of those visitors and readers read online? Google Analytics keeps a record of the web pages that the visitors to the URL www.geneamusings.com looked at. The 20 most "popular" blog pages, based on all page views, were:

1. www.geneamusings.com - 70,494 views (29.4% of all page views)

2. World records for number of children (posted 21 July 2006) - 5,474 views

3. John Tyler's Grandson is still alive! (posted 20 February 2007) - 1,876 views

4. How rare is your personality type? (posted 20 June 2007) - 1,853 views

5. Make Your Own Gravestone (posted 29 July 2007) - 1,750 views

6. Electronic Genealogy Magazine Publication (posted 22 April 2009) - 1,661 views

7. Family Tree Maker 2010 software - what? when? (posted 11 July 2009) - 1,448 views

8. Tombstone Tuesday - Nathaniel Grigsby (posted 19 May 2009 ) - 1,117 views

9. Are imaging services missing NARA records? (posted 5 January 2009) - 1,081 views

10. Family Tree Maker 2010 <=> Ancestry Member Tree Synchronization (posted 1 August 2009) - 1,029 views

11. More on Ancestry.com and MyLife.com (posted 20 March 2009) - 907 views

12. FTM 2009 Source Citations - First Look (posted 5 February 2009) - 882 views

13. Online Historical Directories (posted 27 October 2009) - 787 views

14. My mtDNA is in the K Haplogroup (posted 30 September 2008) - 775 views

15. Family tree tattoos? (posted 10 January 2007) - 709 views

16. Searching Online for Genealogy Data (posted 18 May 2009) - 606 views

17. Ancestry and MyLife Public Records Index (posted 18 March 2009) - 592 views

18. Unindexed Databases on Ancestry.com (posted 4 May 2009) - 571 views

19. Was Daniel Boone an Ancestor of Pat Boone? (posted 31 August 2007) - 550 views

20. Working in RootsMagic 4 - Summary of Posts (posted 27 April 2009) - 549 views

Six of these top 20 pages are "oldies but goodies" (numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 15 and 19) - posts that people find by using a search engine. The others are more recent posts, and the traffic for most of them peaks right after they are posted and dies down quickly.

For example, if you check the first graph on Post 1, you see that the most visits and page views occurred on 24 April 2009 (767 visits, 1,272 page views). The post Electronic Genealogy Magazine Publication had 602 visits on that day after the post was highlighted by Dick Eastman.

The key to getting high blog post visits and page views is to be linked to by another genealogy blogger, mentioned by a magazine article, or be listed in a Google Alert.

Like I said in an earlier post - I'm a "numbers guy."