Blog News
This blog recently passed a milestone – over 100,000 hits – so I thought I’d give you a peek at SMBAS Blog World Headquarters history.
Miscellaneous blog tidbits:
First Posting: 3/29/09
Current total posts: 382 – Event announcements are deleted following the event
Total Hits: 100,400
Subscribers – 315: Email – 268 WordPress Members – 47
All-Time Page Views (did you know we have 19 pages?):
1. 30,855 Home Page
2. 11,874 Los Angeles County Birding Spots 7-page set
3. 2,849 California Bird Festivals
4. 2,809 Bird & Marine Mammal Rescue
5. 1,967 Malibu Lagoon Restoration Project 2012-13 4-page set
6. 1,965 Printable Calendar & Checklist
7. 1,119 Bird Locating – “It’s right there…in the green tree!”
8. 774 Western Snowy Plovers
9. 401 Birding Info. Pages
10. 297 Unusual Birds at Malibu Lagoon
All-Time Top Ten Postings:
1. 3,482 New Hummingbird Species Discovered in L.A. County
2. 1,931 The First Americans of Ballona (3-part series)
3. 1,768 Snowy Plover Likely to be Split from Kentish Plover
4. 1,411 “It’s Right There in the Green Tree!” Getting others onto that bird
5. 1,152 California Bird Festivals 2010-11
6. 1,133 Birders Take Their Lumps with their Splits
7. 1,091 Canyonland Roadrunner Captured on Film
8. 1,070 Full Pink Moon Update for April 15, 2014
9. 1,012 Kestrel Photoshow
10. 754 Western Roof-Owl: Bird of Mystery
Best Day Ever:
4/1/11 – 1,486 hits (April Fool’s Day post on New Hummingbird Species)
Links: Fifty interesting & useful websites – Look to the right > > >
Countries – Hits for 2015 – 70 Countries:
Over 10,000 hits: USA
100 – 200: UK, Canada
40 – 60: Germany, Australia, Taiwan
20 – 39: Netherlands, France, Sweden, India
10 – 19: Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Brazil, Euro. Union, Finland, Denmark, Spain, Ukraine, Russia, Singapore
1 – 9: Sri Lanka, Poland, Thailand, Japan, Czech Republic, UAE, Hong Kong, Norway, Kenya, Senegal, Bulgaria, Maldives, Macedonia, Pakistan, 36 others
Some 2014 Statistics:
Over 25,000 views
463 pictures presented (thanks to you photographers!)
People linked in through: Facebook, Audubon.org, CA.Audubon.org, SMBAS.atspace.com, WordPress
103 countries represented, including far-flung places like Azerbaijan, Burkina Faso, Fiji, Guyana, and Papua New Guinea.
For the Future:
The plan is to decentralize postings: trip leaders writing their own trip reports, program chairs writing their announcements, other chairs writing reports about what they’re up to, and contributions from YOU! our reader. {Chuck Almdale}
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Great job. Always interesting!
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You’ve done a terrific job with it Chuck.
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