MOG Stats 7:Page Views
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Track:How Do Yeaw View You? (75)
My Top Ten Posts by page view
- Changes Motown 1968;The B-Sides (number 65 on the all time MOG hit parade)
- Smiles In An Instant,Happiness In a Minit
- What The Kid Is Listening to
- Defending The Honor Of Hip Hop
- Funky Friday:Pleasure and Pain
- Highlights From The Hip Hop Genome
- Mardi Gras Funk
- Funky Friday:The Motor Booty Affair
- Under The Covers With Ruth Copeland
- Chicago Gangsters Lay Funk Foundation For Hip Hop Gold
Why did these posts receieve almost 2000 percent more page views than my average post does?
Only one of them (number 4) is in my Top 10 most discussed, so there must be another reason. My first impression is that it's tags and pictures that pushed these guys to the top of the charts.
Analysis
10. The post is very old, but when it was new it had a picture of Al Capone and Al Capone's Car in it, that came up pretty high in google searches for Chicago Gangsters, Al Capone's Ride, or Al Capone. The Post was about the band Chicago Gangsters.
9.If you do a regular google search for Ruth Copeland, this post from over a year ago, is still in the top 5. Mogger Spike 1 joined the site when he found this post from google. Plus anything from the P-Funk ouevre gets a lot of web action.
8.Still showing on the 2nd page of searches for Motor Booty Affair images and on the second page of Google web searches.
7.Google search Mardi Gras Funk in images or a web search and you find this post first. Search Mardi Gras Indians images and one of the pictures from the post is on the first page.
6.Search Lenny Roberts (the creator of the Hip Hop genome, ultimate breaks and beats) images and you'll find my post on the first page.
5.Search images for Ohio Players Pain, Ohio Players, Ohio Players Pleasure,or Pain and Pleasure (i'm sure this was most helpful) and this post is on the first page.
4.Google Defending Hip Hop and this post is on the first page..Image search Defending Hip hop and this post is the second entry. Image search basehead hip hop and this post is on the front page. The post also had a lot of discussion and embedded videos which may have added to the hits. I don't post a lot of video but I'm guessing video searches draw a lot of action as well.
3.My top 3 read posts went to a whole nuther level. With number 3 receiving 5000 more hits than number 4. I'm guessing (cause the posts aren't anywhere in google rankings) that posting about a kids band called the Naked Brothers and about Spongebob doesn't hurt in getting page views.
2. If you google smile in an instant this post is at the top, but the real reason this got viewed so much is that after a MOG remodel it was the default first post when any user hit the Mogosphere..
1.If you google Motown 1968 in a web search, or an image search this is on the first page. Image search Marvelettes its on the first page. Image search Bobby Taylor and The Vancouvers-first page,Tommy Chong Motown,first entry. I guess I caught search engine lightning in a bottle with this one. (11,510 views and counting)
Thanks MOGfather and MOG tech for adding the pageview feature. For obsessives like myself it is a treat.
If anyone would like to share their stats, I'd love to hear some numbers and thoughts.
Comments (72)
I think "obsessive" is an understatement. Yowza.
I get real meticulous when I'm procrastinating...this is kind of a follow on to this capndad post.
Wow, that got me going to my own stats. To find out that over 5500 people have read a post makes me start wondering whether one shouldn't be - um - "professional". My biggest post is a Rock Shrine for The Scotch of St. James. The new Mog has fucked up the formatting and my tags have gone, so lord knows why that's so popular. The 3rd most popular post is the Shrine for The Hammersmith Palais, which shows that The Clash and Joe Strummer remain gods of rock. (An impetus for me to post my next Shrine, which is Rehearsals Rehearsals.) Must remember to put the word "naked" into a headline...
You know if you search for Fistula Spume you always get me. :) Another thing that will probably boost your page views is if you have these words in it.
1. chrysler dealerships closing 2. plum island 3. tamir sapir 4. afpc 5. kirksville mo 6. cell for cash 7. daytime emmy nominations 2009 8. kirksville daily express 9. chrysler dealer list 10. rugby scandal
This post is going to the top!
Nice Sam..I tried somali pirates as a tag for awhile..
Jonh,
When you google image Rock Shrine you have more than a few up there. A regular google search of Rock Shrine has you on the first google page as well. Google any band name + shrine, and you are right there.
Every now and again I go back and edit some of my old posts to fix 'em up. After the last upgrade, I asked MOG tech to fix some and they did..thanks again MOG support.
I really must pay more attention. (I think that's my motto.) It never occurs to me to check this stuff in Google or anywhere. Thanks for setting me on the road to self-discovery. :-)
Since you asked here's my top posts with brief explanations.
1. Fake Blood - these guys were really popular all at once last October when I posted this.
2. Flight Of The Conchords - again really popular.
3. It's Only a Paper Moon - one of my favorite songs and posts. I guess a lot of Paper Moon enthusiasts out there.
4. Cartoom! - only one of the coolest albums ever by a couple of Japanese guys.
5. Soko - I still never got an album by this French girl but I guess people really like her.
6. Cornelius - Omstart - he's a Japanese rock god and poeple like em.
7. Dying naked isn't as embarr... - my Mog wars post. What Jonh said is the reason why it's popular.
8. Hercules and Love Affair - new hip and popular album.
9. Get The Fuck Up - it's got a cussword in the title.
10. Bikes Blues and BBQ - this is a local Fayetteville biker convention. Lot of locals and bikers google it.
There you go. My top ones in a nutshell.
Is mog paying you for this info, and how do you get to see which ones got viewed the most
Fake blood is also a popular make up item around halloween..you went right to the zeitgeist, Sam. Thanks for the list..looks like your top posts were mostly driven by unique content (no surprise there).
Rawk, you have the number one viewed post of all time when you were your old self.
Click-Blog Posts>AllTime>Most Read to get the all time list
To get your list>Hit my Posts. They are arranged by time, just click the views tab and it will arrange 'em from most to least viewed.
I thought it was serendipitous finding Fake Blood just before Halloween. I should probably write a post about Bjork's bootleg Fireworks album just before the 4th of July.
adding the # of views stat was such a nice addition
i really am quite pleased with this new mog
I don't know what it is (probably my terrible posts) but I routinely got 1000+ views on my posts as late as October of last year..Now I have to go overboard to get over 1000 views..
Since last year my only post over 1K is
Nude, All-Female Feminist Bands With Silver Body Paint Singing About Football
and that barely made it.
This post is (Cialis, Viagra, ED) definitely going to get many hits. I'd say a whole prescriptions worth!
Free Teen Viagra..No way. Do comment threads actually make it to google?
Anyway, to some extent I think less traffic on MOGger posts can be attributed to the new home page, where the links don't go to very much mogger content.
i can attribute my post with the most views to you and Contra for your promotion under the MOG greatest hits/Best Mogmerican Music Blogging posts.....which is pussing 23,000 views now
so thanks for that :)
wow...pushing..not pussing haha
The origins of metal post...oh yeah, that was hot like
free teen viagrafiresomali pirate.Golly golly gosh you guys are all very popular then, aren't you?
lol...nice
I'm a second tier guy compared to the folks who had pictures of Jessica Beil's booty in their posts..they did really well. Of course, Evil Genius Scotfree is in the top 10 with Phobe Cates movie stills from Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Heh, I'm still 12,000 page views behind Lyrikhan..don't think I'll be makin' that up anytime soon.
I'll never crack the Top 40.
Of course, some Beatles beastiality posts might make some hay, with the right pictures of course.
It is kinda pitiful though that out of 705 posts in the last 24 hours only 18 got any comments..
Oh yes..that'll do nicely. Genius Lyrik!
woo...your comment jumped....or did i just know you would mention something about Beatles and beastiality
You are psychic! and for just 3 easy payments of 29.99 you will help others increase their page views by psychicaly predicting future searches by the users of the internets.
Did you know that Apple is going to release a refrigerator that talks to your Apple car and other Apple Lifeware devices? Broken here in the past for the post in the future!
"It is kinda pitiful though that out of 705 posts in the last 24 hours only 18 got any comments.." The cream always rises to the top!
Some unexpected odities in my Top Ten as well. My spat with Zarpex a year ago is still in the lead, but it's followed, bizarrely, by an acoustic jazz sax cover of a Mighty Diamonds cover of a Cables tune.
I can perhaps understand Sandy Denny in my Top Ten, and Gregory Isaacs covering Bunny Wailer, but I wouldn't have picked Eritrean rebel singer Helen Meles or deceased reggae star Prince Lincoln Thompson as likely to be wildly popular.
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that oughta help the cause, great post man. I'd pitch in, but I can't make much logic outta my top ten, after Phoebe, who cares??
Baudilino, I think if you pick just the right obscurity to post, you get the benefit of first dibs on google searches for a long period of time. a la Ruth Copeland for me. Not too many people looking for Ruth but all of 'em saw that post.
Scot, so how many views does a top 10 all time MOG post have? 50K. You sir are a genius.
i just checked and i have a post with 37,600 views... and 8 comments. AND the video that the post revolves around has been disabled lol
I gotta remember to put emo in my tags..Sam TA. I think it was the emo they had 'em flocking like lemmings. You had your finger on the pulse that day.
I find this kinda sad.
@Scottfree....That's false advertising!
I wuz here.
Which part Chris? The part where the most read posts are the one's where there is some link to porn? I think it is interesting to see how the internets work.
Or just the fact that I'm bringing it up?
Apologies.
Hi DMDM.
let's see . . .
free nude celebs
oprah winfrey
barack obama
boobies
pink
all male review
condom
Groon,
That's your top 10 posts? i don't remember those.
At one time, if you did a Google search on "Pirate's Pantry" (a cookbook published by the Lake Charles LA Junior League), my Amazon review (posted, like all my Amazon reviews - i used to be in the top250 reviewers there - on my website) would be the #1 hit. I have no idea why.
I just tried it: The #1 hit is for the Amazon detail page.
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But guess whose review is at #1 on the Amazon page?
And the version of it on my website is still #10 on the Google hits:
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Oh yeah - commercial message: Click here for the index of all my book, CD and video reviews on Amazon.
no, Cody, I was just trying to drive the stats up on this post. Trying to be funny. I, uh, guess it didn't work.
Holly shit lyrikhan! How did your post get that many? I don't think that article got more than a couple views. My highest is 16000+ but that's because it has classic controversial album covers on it.
Let me add Cody, that posting with some twitter trends might help as well. Allow me the currents:
Grey's Anatomy, Star Trek, Lakers, Celtics, Bones
And here are my Top Ten (ever):
12260 John Lennon and Magical Misery Tour
11446 Possibly the Sickest Song Ever Written
by Goffin & King
7935 Victory for good taste? California court
rules Bratz! dolls must be permanently
removed from shelves...
5806 Barbie Stuff Inspired by Anna's Current Avatar
3096 The Thousand Yard Stare (Those who still
believe in the "War on Terror" should skip this post)
2757 Inappropriate Terminology dept.
1654 Large Breasts and a Cute Fuzzy Pussy
1405 Making Jessica Rabbit Real
1260 Why So Serious? The Joker meets
Bart Simpson
1042 Guns and Roses album release means
free Dr Pepper for eveyone in the US
I'm surprised the "Breasts & Cute Fuzzy Pussy" one isn't higher on the list.
It worked Groon,lolol. It worked fantasticaly.
Fairportfan-You are clearly an expert in these matters and all things css and html. I bow down. Nice Top 10!
contra-I'm not gonna do it anymore, meaning search engine games. Fact is it barely matters anymore..I can never attain old school numbers, so why try. On all the old posts I never did other tags anyway and still got numbers. Not anymore.
Love it. The post that I received the most views was over 2000 which was on a post about the singer maxwell last year on BET. I had embedded some video that was hard to find and I am assuming my blog was coming up first in google search and that is why I received so many hits.
Thank you for sharing your stats!
Thanks S.Life, always good to see you around here. Below you will see a graph. The horizontal axis is time periods starting from 12/06 til now during which I made 10 posts. The vertical axis is the average page views per post I got during those 10 posts. I guess I peaked somewhere in the Summer/Fall of '07. A few spikes since then, but otherwise down,down,down. Reminds me of the stock market.
@codyb sweet! Is that from google analytics? Are we able to use that as a tracker system within the MOG platform - google analytics?
Thanks for the love. I haven't been on MOG as much as I would like to, but my first love is here when it comes to sharing music appreciation.
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I don't know if you can use google analytics.But then again i don't know too much about computers.
I put my long past Statistics class to use and graphed it myself..
You know me..I'm all about music appreciation. Only 2% of my posts (all time) have been stats oriented..:)
How do your stats posts compare in views and comments compared to the rest?
If you could edit your posting pages template, then it would be possible to run Google Analytics, you basically need to get into the html template of a page.
BTW I love that your old school with the stats.
but speaking of Stats check this site out:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html
So the views kinda follow the trend and comments are a little better than usual 'cause its MOG related (I guess).
Troy thread jacked number 2 with some Jessica Beil photos..I guess that accounts for the high number there.
Hah..I could've used Wolfram. I wonder if it would've worked.
genius? well, if you mean like Hemingway trying to find his way home after the bar closed and a hurricane's brewing....I guess...
darn them MOGpolice DMDM!!
top tencoomink...
So it's more of an instinct thing then, Mr.Free? Or a natural talent and flair for the searchable?
Good Golly, Miss Molly, this thread is out of control! Off the charts. We got plenty of SEO words floating here, so I'm not going to add any more.
I'm totally surprise when I google my nom de plume, one of the top things that comes up is an old post for my SXSW listening project in 2008. One of the bands jacked a couple sentances I said about them (ala "Unknown blogger says 28 words about our band.), and leveraged them in several different sites to promote themselves. Wow, I didn'realize I was such an important blogger! ;-)
Cool, I will take just the slightest bit of credit for stoking up that defending hip hop discussion.
I'm glad to see a few of these where they are, but mostly just mystefied.
10. Alternative 60's Jukebox - Lulu and Jimmy Page I did a couple of these and did not think they got many looks.
9. A Portrait of InsanityHalloween post. Deep Alice Cooper track. Hand painted pumpkins
8. Am I Crazy? Godley & Creme (ex-10cc) help fight writer's block.
7. Hey Mog, here's the Yoshida Brothers!! Japanese heavy metal banjos.
6. Please Speak Up, I Kant Understand You Groove Armada hosts MOG philosophy/minotaur slam
5. Come On, Feel The Illinois! My Own Rock Star Pictures #2something I made!
4. Good Evening My Friends more Groove Armada, something my son made!!
3. Sex, Drugs and Amy Winehouse, er, uh, Rock n Roll I typed the text moments after having to admit to my self I enjoyed her set.
2. I don't need a license to drive my car if I'm a Big Star! Nice to see this bit of legacy as the only other post to break 1,000
1. Fenix TX - Sk8tr Rock for Friday Morning the legendary Phoebe
fun Cody, thanks for the thread.
Hey LMI..I love it when they use me..There a blog I
steal fromvisit, Funk My Soul (http://www.funkmysoul.gr/) that once used a review I wrote for their post. Flattered I was.That one was fun,Oat. I sure do miss my Zarpex. I learned about Prefuse 73 in that very post. cheers.
FUNKY FRIDAY STATS
48 posts in the series
37801 Page Views - 811 comments
788 PV/post -17 comments/post
Least Viewed:Parliament-Mothership Connection Video
Least commented:Diplomats of Solid Sound Featuring The Diplomettes
Most viewed (outside of the overall top 10-and my all time fave thread that I started): Funky Freakout:A Six Pack Of Cold Duck Funk
Most commented: FF and NPR, Where's Whitey Now?
Well the Big Star post is a great post..you could only hope it turned up in some never-before-heard-em person searching them..they'd be a fan for life.
The Amy Winehouse was a timing thing..good picture and a video,too.
The Groove Armada had to be for the video..and the shredding
Cheap Trick..gotta be the picture,very cool
The Kant post..genius.
I think the Yoshida bros. won out because their uniqueness gave them staying power in search engine land.
You were in rare form on that Godley& Cream
Pumpkin Pix..those must've lit up the image search
Alice Cooper is famous + it's a great post
I guess if some googled Lulu+Jimmy Page..bam they hit you.
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Also for anyone still watching, fairport fan's top dogs are absolutely worth a look. Great visuals and aurals to go with good writing. contra, you should check those for vol.4 of the mogmerican guide.
Did you know that Mog has a lot of traffic from India? I need to post more music that fits with the trends of India. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http%3A%2F%2Fmog.com
I wonder if the spike you had before Cody related to a change that Mog itself had on the site. On another note I've got this cyberporn album I've been meaning to post for a while but haven't yet. If the theories are correct it might be my biggest album post evar! :P
Oh yeah Sam..All the complaining we have done at various times regarding MOG upgrades is true. Not about the glitches, but about the ghettoization of the community. I mean, this post, with its 150 page views is at the top of the most read pile for the 24.
It is just so difficult to reach a wider audience with so many posts on the site. We have our small group of active (shrinking daily it seems) Moggers that used to be the whole site.We now are just a sliver.
Even the MOGnews folks, who were gradually becoming part of the fold and commenting on posts are relatively silent now.
New folks who look at the home page will see pretty much nothing but blog news.
Other than MMN posts, the most read of all time posts are all over 6 months old..most over a year old.
@cody B - he he.. Totally love how you are old school with the stats. I can learn a lot from you on that.
@contrabandwidth ooh thank you for the suggestion! xoxo
I love your stats posts, even if they are a bit depressing.
I've never gotten more than 1,500 views on a post. I guess I really need to insert more lipstick lesbians or something.
Or maybe not be so cranky...
This is insane. Not you, the numbers... the numbers! I'm feeling very exposed now. Does this mean that I should actually think before I type?
Naaaawwwww ;)
Thanks SL. Mostly I don't care too much for stats. I know it doesn't seem like it, but I'm really concerned about the community and trying to explain it and the vibe I get with something concrete. Of course, in the class I learned that numbers and stats can mean a lot of things and should be taken with a huge grain of salt.
I feel the same about the posts we make as I do about the bands we love..I just want more people to read and listen to them.
Hey Mark. You cranky? Nooo
Yeah the graph really depressed me. I guess one factor I didn't take into consideration was the increase in page views over time, ie people looking at old posts well after they were written, which brings you back to the search engine issue and why tags are important.
Some posts get a lot of views immediately because of their current content, the posts of the old school variety have a long shelf life, 'cause they are already stale:)
So trying to tweak the search engine gods does have some motive other than purience or look at me..henceforth I shall tag with only relevant music facts.
Another thing I get from this, is that the MOGfather was absolutely right when he talked about the cliques developing. Our small group is the Mogger clique using all the features of MOG, while other folks use just the news.
Hey Anna, I'm am too insane.
Anna Stats:
It looks like you have 2 Top 50 10K+ page view posts..nice.
As everyone knows though..you are the queen of comments..holding down 15 spots in the top 50 and 2 in the top 10.
Also, it is more than likely, though I don't have a list that you are the Number 1 comment giver of all time..20208 as of this second.
Very easy to see why you are the number 1 comment getter. I guess the only real rule on MOG is the Golden One.
this post is way outta control. Meticulous, obsessive, whats in a label? ;-)
I did this and was surprised to see one of my posts had over 1900 views "The Pogues, The Wire, what song is that?" So I did a google search using the Pogues and The wire and my post was the first item showing. Kinda interesting, but nowhere near as fun as reading this thread!
Thanks dc,
It's my impression that real stats folks, though loving raw data, attempt to get beyond the numbers for other stuff..the data is the start of the conversation, not the definitive end.
data data data, I agree, the data is the start of the conversation. Its all about figuring out the right bits to pull.
thanks for (another) excellent post!
I just thought that some folks might think I knew what I was doing and trying to get page views for my posts..no way. Don't get me wrong, I want folks to read my shite, but no internet steroids were used for my top 10, just luck. I have no idea what I'm doing.
Only recently, after looking at the top posts of all time did I start to find out about SEO's. I didn't even know what an SEO was until Lady Miss mentioned it here.
I mean I love the internets, but the whole secrets of the search engine thing is kinda off putting.
totally. emo sells.
I think emo bashing might sell even more..with its added violence element.
this really is the wrong time (= no time) for me to get into stats but ... can't ... resist.
#1 is Martina Topley-Bird. this post sez nothing, nothing at all, other than that her album #2's coming out. i never even had a chance to get my inner drama queen out in this post. wait, that must be why.
#2, 3, 5 are related -- manele music, Rachid Taha, and other songs from a werewolf movie called Blood and Chocolate. i swear, there has to be a cult out there tracking these down. what's also embarrassing is that it's not a good movie (dachmo will corroborate this, bet he still hates me for it) but i thought had a good soundtrack.
#4 is a little piece of fiction i wrote, which brings me to what Jonh said - makes me start wondering whether one shouldn't be - um - "professional". - um, sheesh, yeah.
I will look those up, ms.poe. Thank you for passing by and giving me my most commented post...ever. Thanks to all the participants. Statistics can be fun, no?
cripes! 71 comments! or 72 now... just because i like the number 72 better. ;p