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More Content. Increased Interactivity. The Latest Updates to my Website!

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In the past few months, despite being ill (see Let Me Explain About The Monetising), I’ve managed to added significantly more content to my website. I’ve also made it much easier for both new and returning visitors to find content that they might like.

New Content

In this post, I’ll share both details of all the new content and how I’ve organised it. For new visitors I have added the Discover page that provides a list of links for new people to learn about me, my creative works and ways they can support me.

After YouTube recently removed my channel and videos, I decided to set up my own video channel page right here on this website. All of my video content can now be watched here: My Video Channel.

Improved Organisation

I’ve always been interested by and written content about a wide range of topics. I love the variety of topics that I write about. But I have come to realise that different content will appeal to different groups of readers/website visitors.

The amount of content I have created, along with how it was organised, made it difficult for readers/visitors to find the content that interests them. So I’ve developed the following Topic Content pages:

Each page contains a paragraph briefly explaining the topic, then a list of: Creative Works, Pages, Blog Categories/Tags and Blog Posts. Each page contains a gallery of Related Images and where available Related Videos. I am hoping that these Topic Content pages, help readers/visitors to easily find content around their interests.

Increased Interactivity

When I have analysed the statistical data around visitors to my website, I noticed that visitors are only spending a short amount of time on my website/blog. So I have made a real effort to make my website more interactive. I already had the newsletter, social media and contact pages. But I’ve also added:

Future Content

I currently have a list of ideas for future blog posts, pages and other content. I am also intending to start the planning and writing of Z-VIRUS Cure & Restore, which is due for release some time in 2027.

Write soon,

Antony

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20,000+ Visitors in 2014 – Not Bad For A Little Personal Blog! :)

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Jetpack Annual Report 2014 – Crunchy Numbers

The numbers are in and according to my WordPress Jetpack Annual Report in 2014 I had 20,000 views of my blog. Not bad for a little personal blog! Click the image left to see the screenshot. Any image in this post can be clicked for full size.

My hosting provider Vidahost (who you can learn more about here) provide AWStats software. According to AWStats I’ve had (see image below):

  • 58, 101 unique visitors to my blog in 2014.
  • Who have visited 149,103 times in 2014.
  • And have resulted in over a million hits in 2014.
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AWStats from Hosting Provider Vidahost.

The WordPress Jetpack Annual Report reports that my biggest referrers in 2014 were from social media sites Facebook and Twitter:


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Jetpack Annual Report 2014 – How did they find you?
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Jetpack Annual Report 2014 – My Posting Patterns

I’ve really grown my blog in the last few years, with Reviews of books, films and technology seeming to make the big difference to increasing the number of visitors. But what keeps my visitors returning seems to be blogging about my personal life. Below is the result of a readers survey undertaken in 2014. It that shows that readers enjoy the current content I create and would like more of everything. It shows that 80% of readers surveyed said that they would like more personal blog posts:

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Readers were asked: What sort of blog posts would you like to see more of?

I think these statistics are great. In the next year and beyond I hope to continue to grow my loyal blog readership.

The blog costs money to host and takes up a considerable chunk of my time. So if you have a product or service that you’d like to advertise on the blog, please don’t hesitate to Contact me. Your advert could reach 20,000+ unique visitors a year.

Blog soon,

Antony

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