Yesterday, I had a long talk with a journalist about personal branding and social media. We talked about how I started this blog and how it has developed over the years. As a matter of fact, today I am celebrating seven years of blogging on Media Culpa, which I started on Feb 17, 2004 (actually a little earlier, but those first test posts were deleted before going live on this domain).
To celebrate the occasion, I thought that I would share some small details about the past year for this blog.
- 72% of my visitors are from outside of Sweden. During the last 12 months, the blog has gotten visitors from 162 different countries/territories, including Turks and Caicos Islands, Kyrgyzstan and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Sweden is the top country (28%), followed by USA (23%) and UK (7.1%).
- 50% of all visits came from search engines.
- Top referring search key words: “twitter handle”.
- Most read post, is an old post from 2009: Strategies for choosing Twitter handle (see above).
- Most read new post: BP oil spill and social media, which still ranks in the top 10 in Google for “BP oil spill”, between Huffington Post and the Guardian.
- Most retweeted post (79 times): Flickr reaches 5 billion photos, which also was picked up by TechCrunch, CNN, BBC and hundreds of blogs.
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This is no small achievement. It’s a lot of work to keep such a good blog for so long. Well done.
@Sherrilynne Thanks for that nice comment 🙂