A big “Thank You!” to all my dear blog readers and
blog followers!
In 2018 I have enjoyed your email and comments, and
your messages via social media. Every
comment is very important to me. I appreciate
all your suggestions, clues, humor and inquiries.
My blog is not monetized. I don’t promote advertising and I have no
affiliate links. But I enjoy checking my
blog statistics to see what is popular, and what my readers enjoy reading. If there are patterns, I don’t necessarily change
my writing or my posting because mostly I write for fun, for my family, and for
the pure enjoyment of making “cousin connections” and receiving feedback from
you, my readers.
Here are the top ten blog posts from Nutfield
Genealogy, in reverse order….
#10 “How Genealogy Literate Are You?” My
attempt at humor, from March 2018, with 22 comments it seemed to resonate with
many genealogists.
#9 “19 August 1692, Five People Hanged at Salem, Massachusetts” This one was originally posted on 19
August 2015, and receives modest re-reading every year on that date. It is a re-post of a blog post I wrote
several years earlier that was very popular, too.
#8 “Ten Ways to be a Good Ancestor” This was
another attempt at humor from 2016
#7 “Meghan Markle’s New Hampshire Roots” This
was written this year near the royal wedding, so I can see why it received so
many hits from Google. Nearly 5,000 hits!
I wasn’t trying for popularity, just trying to see if there were any
cousin connections out there. According
to the number of comments on Facebook many, many people are kin to the new
Duchess.
#6 “Patriot to Passenger Project” This project
from the General Society of Mayflower Descendants attempts to match patriots in
the DAR database with Mayflower Passenger ancestors. It was also published just this year, and has
nearly 6,000 hits. Many of the readers
found DAR patriots who were not listed, and they provided the names to the
project manager and increased the list by a large amount. Good job readers!
#5 “University of Durham Team is Reaching Out to the Descendants of 17th Century Scottish Prisoners” This blog post was
written in 2016 and received thousands of hits because of the archaeological
dig that was in the news (uncovering the bodies of many of these prisoners from
the 1650 Battle of Dunbar). This dig
continues to be in the news, along with the recreation of the battle next year,
and so now the number of hits is approaching 6,500. A very popular subject among genealogists and
history buffs!
#4 “10 Unexpected Places to Find Family History”
This was written in 2015, but
continues to draw readers and is now nearly 7,000 hits. I suppose that when you hit a brick wall, a blog
post like this might help you think out of the box.
#3 “2020 Events for the 400th Anniversary of the Arrival of the Mayflower” This post from just a few weeks ago has
nearly 8,000 hits already, and as 2020 approached received a lot of new
reads. Check out this list of scheduled
events if you are interested in attending the commemorations this year.
#2 “Flora Stewart – Black History Month” This
post from nearly eight years ago (written in February of 2011) still receives
lots of hits, and it makes me happy that this obscure woman who lived in
poverty in New Hampshire is still of such interest to history buffs. Perhaps it is her haunting photograph that
makes this blog post so interesting?
#1 “A Favorite Christmas Gift! You Might Want One, Too” This post from 2012 has
lead my list of popular blog posts for eight years. It has had over a quarter of a million hits,
with about 3,000 more this Christmas season.
I suppose people googling for gift ideas (especially family history gift
ideas) find this an interesting post. My
thanks for this success goes out to my daughter, who gave me this gift for
Christmas in 2012. And my thanks goes
out to Pinterest, where this post still goes viral every December.
Top Ten Traffic Sources for 2018:
1. Facebook
2. Google
3. BuzzFeed
4. Pinterest
5. Nutfield
Genealogy
6. Bing
7. Yahoo
8. Tipsted
9. Google UK
10. t.co (Twitter links?)
Other trivial facts about Nutfield Genealogy:
First blog post- 17 July 2009
Total posts- 2867
Page views all time history (as of January 3, 2019) – 2,810,044 (almost 3 million! Cool!)
Top Five Search Keywords (phrases)
1. White Horse
2. Maria del Rosario
Cayetana Alfonsa
3. Flora
Stewart
4. Kilcher
Family Tree
5. Thanksgiving
Proclamation
Total
Blog Posts by Year
2009 - 75 posts
2010 - 337 posts
2011 - 341 posts
2012 - 346 posts
2013 - 349 posts
2014 - 309 posts
2015 - 291 posts
2016- - 286 posts
2017 - 284
posts
2018 - 249
posts
Total
number of views of these pages:
"Surnames to 9 Generations"
23,298
"Descendants of Thomas Wilkinson"
16,942
"Descendants of Samuel Wilkinson"
11,364
"Awards"
8,394
(this page has been removed)
"Honor Roll Project"
8,394 (this has moved to its own webpage)
"New England Genealogy Bloggers"
9,850
“Nutfield FAQ’s” 2,783
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Thank
you Nutfield Genealogy Blog Followers”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 4,
2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/01/thank-you-nutfield-genealogy-blog.html: accessed [access date]).
Very impressive!!
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