I think I can safely declare this blog a success. - “Fourth Anniversary“
Due to the decreasing number of daily slots available for general posts, this feature is appearing a little later than usual this year; in fact, I didn’t even get to write it until two days after the date on which it published last year. But here it is, better late than never; newer readers who haven’t seen one before may be interested in the description of how the statistics are derived from last year’s review column.
In a strong sign of my increasing popularity, the most common search which discovered this blog last year was “the honest courtesan” (in various permutations) with 1958 hits; “maggie mcneill” (spelled several different ways) was third with 1710. Perennial favorite “soapland” (in many different forms) was second with a total of 1858, and “rhinoceros” remained at fourth with 1402 hits. Various versions of “ashley madison” (many expecting “free” credits) came in fifth with 971 hits; the many different ways to say “penis shapes” came sixth (about 835 total). “P411″ was seventh with about 385, then “escort terms” (various forms) with 358. Ninth place was “anonymous blogging” with 356, and finally many different forms of “vulva shapes” with 337. The numbers for all of these are dramatically lower than last years'; I’m sure this is due to Google’s continuing prudification of its search parameters, which also curtailed my traffic growth dramatically and reduced my page rank from a 5 to a 4.
My top ten posts for the year were as follows:
Name Date # of hits in 2013
A Visit to Soapland October 21st, 2011 52,920
All Shapes and Sizes September 8th, 2010 47,454
Ashley Madison January 30th, 2011 23,593
A Whore in the Bedroom September 9th, 2010 20,403
More Terminology September 7th, 2011 17,816
Black Men September 18th, 2010 16,315
Something in the Milk January 28th, 2014 14,944
Advice for Clients August 21st, 2010 12,995
The Going Rate October 9th, 2010 10,301
Rhinoceros January 21st, 2012 9342
Dr. Brooke Magnanti’s “How To Blog Anonymously (and how not to)” also had considerable traffic (16,423 hits in all); the reason it doesn’t appear in the table above is that it’s a static page rather than a post (I exclude my “Introduction” page for the same reason). The top post by comment has changed somewhat since last year:
Name
Date
# of comments
by 12/31/14
The Privilege Paradigm August 22nd, 2013 230
That Is So Hot! April 19th, 2011 202
Speaking in Prostitute June 17th, 2011 191
Pendulum April 9th, 2011 146
The Enlightenment Police October 1st, 2011 145
TW3 #409 March 1st, 2014 144
Universal Criminality January 15th, 2012 140
Their Lips Are Moving April 25th, 2011 133
Denunciation September 2nd, 2013 126
Creeping Rot April 18th, 2011 123
Even with Google’s attempts to silence the voice of anyone who dares to write about sex, comparison with my reports for 2012 and 2013 will demonstrate just how much I’ve grown in both size and reach. And in the coming year, I plan to use every means at my disposal to increase that even more.