Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Genea-Musings Top 20 Hits for 2010

Like other genea-bloggers, I'm curious about which posts on Genea-Musings are "popular" - and why they might be.

Here are the Top 20 blog posts that had the most page views in 2010 (from Google Analytics).  Of course, with almost five years and 4,500 posts, they were not all written in 2010:

1)  World records for number of children (posted 21 July 2006) - 5,610 views

2)  Family Tree Maker 2011 Announced (posted on 6 August 2010) - 3,536 views

3)  John Tyler's Grandson is still alive! (posted 20 February 2007) - 2,715 views

4)  How rare is your personality type? (posted 20 June 2007) - 1,522 views

5)  Tombstone Tuesday - Nathaniel Grigsby (posted 19 May 2009 ) - 1,521 views

6)  Want a genealogy job? FamilyLink is hiring! (posted 15 April 2009) - 1,352 views

7)  I'll wait on Family Tree Maker 2011 posted on 31 August 2010 - 1,239 views

8)  Make Your Own Gravestone (posted 29 July 2007) - 1,118 views

9)  New FamilySearch Record Search Databases - 300 million names! (posted 3 May 2010) - 986 views

10)  I'm Puzzled by DNA Claims on "Faces of America" (posted 4 March 2010) - 831 views

11)  Who has married the most times? (posted 24 June 2008) - 782 views

12)  Exporting a Tree from Ancestry.com (posted 9 July 2009) - 711 views

13)  Was Daniel Boone an Ancestor of Pat Boone? (posted 31 August 2007) - 690 views

14)  My mtDNA is in the K Haplogroup (posted 30 September 2008) - 676 views

15)  Is Robert Pattinson a Cousin to Vlad III Dracula? (posted 24 June 2010) - 6095 views

16)  Ancestry.com Offering 15% Savings on NEW Subscriptions (posted 4 July 2010) - 576 views

17)  Ancestry.com Source citations leave a lot to be desired (posted 14 May 2010) - 553 views

18)  "I Am My Own Grandpa" (posted 30 June 2006) - 516 views

19)  First Look at Archives.com - a Database Site? (posted 16 April 2010) - 512 views

20)  The 2010 Census Questions - and why they are asked (posted 9 March 2010) - 479 views

Twelve of these top 20 posts are "oldies but goodies" - 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.

Previous Top 20 "most popular" posts are:

*  2009:  Genea-Musings Statistics for 2009 - Post 2
*  2008:  Genea-Musings top posts - by page views

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