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January's greatest clickthroughs

by billdoskoch on Tue 01 Feb 2005 01:30 AM EST | Permanent Link | Cosmos

If you're curious about what people read on this site in January, or about what I'd wished they'd read, step inside!

Here's the 10 most popular, in descending order:

1. Today's the day to help make blogging history! (Jan. 3-15)

2. Elvis's death day (Aug. 16)

3. Men just want mommy (Jan. 15)

4. Deadline approaches on feds' tsunami relief offer (Jan. 1-11)

5. First impressions on the 'new' Sunday Toronto Star (Jan. 16)

6. Newsflash: Sex a hot topic in blogs! (Dec. 19)

7. Tsunami death images stay off U.S. TV screens (Jan. 3)

8. A very long Hour (Jan. 18)

9. Imperial Hubris - II (Aug. 19)

10. Team America: Why make the liberals the FAGs? (Oct. 15)

The sharp-eyed will notice there's four stories from previous months in that list (the power of Google!). Here's the next four-most-popular items posted in January.

11. New aide aims to defrost the press room (Jan. 13)

12. CBS memo-gate coverage round-up (Jan. 11)

13. December's greatest clickthroughs (Jan. 2)

14. Why I hate Toronto drivers (an eternal series) (Jan. 6)

Some notes:

Today's the day was a shameless attempt to pimp myself for the Canadian Blog Awards. As such, I'm surprised it was clicked on so much (perhaps it's the fact I gave it prominent placement for two weeks). I came in fifth in the category of best new blog. What those awards need are a jury (says the whiny loser).

Elvis just keeps rolling along. It's usually in the top 10 on a daily basis and by month's end racks up the traffic quite nicely. Actually, it gained over last month, when it was number four.

Men just want is excellent barstool argument fodder -- even if I think Ms. Dowd's argument was really faulty. It even attracted a few comments! Woo-hoo!

I wish the tsunami relief offer post had been number one. It would have been interesting to know if anyone clicked through from it to donate.

The Toronto Star post got a fair number of track-backs which likely helped push it up.

Newsflash! got four times the traffic this month than it did in December, despite only being up about 19 days longer. I have no idea why -- actually, I do: It's Google! Searching on sex blogs doesn't even get me into the top 50 there. But search on Washingtonienne sex blogs and I'm number 14!

Tsunami death images was just a straight posting. Searching on Tsunami death images tv gets me a number three Google ranking.

A very long Hour and Imperial Hubris both got a lot of trackbacks.

Team America readers are coming from Google; doing a search on team america world police fags gets a ranking of 11 for that posting.

It's interesting that unlike last month, there are no curious stories in the top 10 that just happened to be adjacent to a highly-visited one.

Stuff I wish people had read more

In no particular order:

A few Auschwitz notes (Jan. 28)

Bill argues with self about casual hell (Jan. 25)

The inauguration, the coming wars AND the end of suburbia (Jan. 21)

Blogger payola scandal? (Jan. 15)

Tsunami coverage wave receding (Jan. 15)

Oh really, Ralph? (Jan. 13)