Analyzing Blogger Stats

The information provided by Blogger's Stats over this past month has been pretty interesting to analyze.


My most popular post this month was my review of the Flip-Pal scanner.  Not surprisingly, this scanner has become my favorite new genealogy toy.  I'm sure that this post has been one of the more popular because of my posting a link on Twitter.  Using Twitter to post about blog posts has increased some traffic to the blog.


It would also appear that by using the widget for "Popular Posts" has allowed some of those posts to have even more page views.  In other words, the popular posts end up becoming more popular.


Some of the search terms and links that have caused people to land at my blog are pretty interesting as well:

Most of the referrals have come from Google, but Facebook and Geneabloggers are well represented.


One of the more interesting search terms was "suicide daughter married james dwiggins"!  Why didn't this person contact me?  This sounds like a great mystery.  I'm not aware of any suicides involving the Dwiggins family in my research.  Two searchers were looking for "Dr. Chew Salamonia Indiana" - my ancestor.  Who were you?  You didn't leave any comments.  


I'm glad that I've added this feature to my blog, and I've turned off my own tracking, so in the future this will be even more accurate.  I'm glad to see that links to my Facebook profile and occasional tweets have also brought visitors to check out my blog.

Wordless Wednesday: Ord W. LeMaster family

Ord W. LeMaster, Ruth P. (Haley) LeMaster, Paul, Idola, Juanita, Weldon

Wordless Wednesday – a great way to share your old family photos! Create a post with the main focus being a photograph or image. Some posters also include attribute information as to the source of the image (date, location, owner, etc.). Wordless Wednesday is one of the longest running “memes” in the blogosphere and is an ongoing series at GeneaBloggers.

Wedding Wednesday: Davies & Glunt

Because you have shared in 

Our lives

By your friendship and love, we, 

Laura Elizabeth Davies

And

Jared Charles Glunt

Together with our parents

Rev. and Mrs. Douglas Davies

And

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Glunt

Invite you to share the beginning of our new life

Together when we exchange

Marriage vows

Saturday, the twenty-fourth of October

Two thousand nine

At half past four o'clock in the afternoon

First United Methodist Church

Gas City, Indiana

Reception immediately following

Roseburg Event Center

Laura Davies is my paternal first cousin.

Wedding Wednesday – a great way to display those old wedding photos or scan wedding invitations and announcements! Suggested by Carol of Reflections from the Fence and in use by several genealogy bloggers.