{"id":6057,"date":"2010-01-03T13:51:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T19:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2010\/01\/03\/top_12_blog_posts_of_2009\/"},"modified":"2017-01-16T13:12:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T19:12:07","slug":"top_12_blog_posts_of_2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2010\/01\/03\/top_12_blog_posts_of_2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 12 Blog Posts of 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are “The Top 12 Posts of 2009″, in ascending order, ahem!<\/strong> The numbers in parentheses tell how many people read the post, but see my note below on this. <\/p>\n

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  1. Was King Arthur’s Camelot In Caerleon, Wales? (Nov – 236)<\/a>\n<\/li>\n
  2. Reformation Day Faire! (Sep. – 236)<\/a>\n<\/li>\n
  3. Tuck By Stephen Lawhead…Day 2 (May – 243)<\/a>\n<\/li>\n
  4. What Is The Purpose Of A Book Cover? A Discussion (Jul – 253)<\/a>\n<\/li>\n
  5. Tuck By Stephen Lawhead…Day 1 (May – 258)<\/a>\n<\/li>\n
  6. Cyndere’s Midnight…An Interview With Jordam, The Beastman (Feb – 269)<\/a>\n<\/li>\n
  7. Cyndere’s Midnight…A Full Review (Feb – 290)<\/a>\n<\/li>\n
  8. Meteorites #1…My Family Saw One Fall !! (Aug – 301)<\/a>\n<\/li>\n
  9. A Castle In The Ozark Mountains? (Jul – 387)<\/a>\n<\/li>\n
  10. Cyndere’s Midnight…An Interview With Jeffrey Overstreet (Feb – 430)<\/a>\n<\/li>\n
  11. Taste And See That The Lord Is Good (Apr – 485)<\/a>\n<\/li>\n
  12. Why Thomas Nelson Opened A Self-Publishing Press (Oct – 496)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    A few observations about this:<\/p>\n

    I’m getting more readers coming to my blog<\/strong>, and this is great news! Last year’s<\/a><\/strong> “least read” top post had 111 readers. This year’s had 236 — over double! And there were just a SLEW of blog posts around 200 that didn’t make the list. <\/p>\n

    This increase is despite the fact that I wrote 32 less blog posts than last year. I did, however, make up for this by my involvement in FaceBook, and that gets some of the credit for people coming to my blog. <\/p>\n

    The other thing that helps bring people to my blog is that Google likes me! If you search for “King Arthur Blog” (and ignore all baking related sites), then I come up at #9<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    Book reviews are popular!<\/strong> Last year I had 3 book reviews in the top 12 — this year I have 5. <\/p>\n

    Michael Hyatt has a lot of followers!<\/strong> My MOST READ BLOG POST of 2009 was written late in the year (October), yet shot to the top in no time because Michael twitterred a link to my post. Not only that, but it has now broken into the TOP 15 blog posts of ALL TIME. Wow, Michael!<\/p>\n

    Over 704 people read the first chapter of MERLIN’s BLADE in 2009<\/strong>, almost twice the number who had read it through 2008. A lot of my time this year went to perfecting MERLIN’s BLADE, so this is encouraging.<\/p>\n

    Two of the items on the list are “off topic” for me<\/strong> (on topic being The Craft Of Writing, King Arthur, and Faith) … #2 (a local regional event that a lot of people wanted information on), and #11 (about a lingual nerve injury I sustained while having dental work done, yes this one “hit a nerve” with the public \":)\" !).<\/p>\n

    If these two were removed from the list, the following two would be added.<\/p>\n