My Top Five Most-Read Posts

I thought about doing a "My Five Favorite Posts" list but decided that people might find what other readers chose more useful. It turns out, it isn't as easy as it sounds to make a list of your 5 most-read posts. There isn't anyplace that has stats on my blog from the first day I posted (at least, not that I can find). The results from the 5 or 6 other places I have stats vary depending on when I posted their little codes into my template.

Blogflux is probably the most useful site for stats because they are exceeding generous with them. The only problem is that I didn't sign up with them until a couple of days into June. That means that I have no stats for May! Then again, I had a lot fewer readers then, too.

Here are the top-five most read posts from this blog as best I could determine. They are in no particular order.

Article Writing and Freelance Tips about the 10-Second Rule, formatting, and Sharon Hurley Hall. This one also has the second highest number of comments.

A Bit of Encouragement and Ethics about the Well-Fed Writer.

Resources: Promote Your Blog, Blog for Someone Else about blog listings and job listings (and Deborah Ng).

Freelance Jobs Galore for which the title is pretty self-explanatory. The post has a couple of wacky comments on it. I'm debating whether to leave those, so if anyone can shed light on whether they're as spammy as they seem I'd appreciate a note or a comment to that effect.

To me, the strangest result is that the post that came up in three places as my most-read, most-searched-for topic is Does the World Need Megaglobe? It's one of two sponsored posts I've done. I can't help but wonder if it was the company searching for buzz or others hired to write about them searching for other posts. I suppose it could be people searching for the site because they've heard the buzz. It just seems strange to me that that is the one that tops the list. Perhaps I'm writing about the wrong things after all?! Nah. I like what I'm doing. I hope you do, too.

Does the World Need a Megaglobe?

I’ve been told about another new search engine/pay-per-click program - Megaglobe. It’s set to launch July 2nd. Using their search engine results in credits to your advertising accounts, which are used to pay for ads on their results.

I was favorably surprised by their search results. I did a search for “human c02 production” (without the quotes) and ended up with RealClimate’s argument that people are bad for the earth as the first result and this counter-argument from znet a few results down the page. These are both quality links with a ton of (incidentally fascinating) information each. There is no way, however, to tell if these sites are advertisers with Megaglobe. If they are, I’d say it speaks well to the caliber of their advertisements.

As a bonus, you can submit your site to their search engine. Of course, the first thing I when I got there was submit this site. I also submitted Associated Content in its entirety. You can never have too many results, right?

I didn’t see anything indicated on the Megaglobe site about whether the average joe (like you and me) can trade in credits for cash instead of advertising through them at some point. I sent them an e-mail and will edit this entry when I get a response.

UPDATE: I got the response that same night, which was pretty quick for folks who are busy gearing up for a launch in three weeks. In essence, they told me that the search rewards are credits with the site, period. If you're looking for a new place to advertise, then this would be of a lot more interest to you than if you're looking to make some money, although I suppose you could advertise your blog or affiliate sites.