Happy new year (Photo credit: Amodiovalerio Verde)
2012 certainly was the most exciting year in my young career. So many great things have happened in the last 12 months that I could write an entire book!
This article is a celebratory mashup, and a way for me to share content that may have gone unnoticed. Thank you, dear readers, for helping me take Creative Ramblings to the next level!
- Stats
- Most read posts
- Most commented posts
- My favorite bloggers and social media professionals
- What's next for Creative Ramblings and me?
Stats
Number of visits: 96,226
Average visits per day: 263
Busiest day of the year: August 17 (1,865 visits)
Top referrers: Google (36,805), Twitter (5,365), Facebook (2,537), and StumbleUpon (808)
Top locations: United States (34,611), Canada (8,710), United Kingdom (6,308), India (5,034), and France (1,361)
Traffic to my blog increased by 40,000 visitors compared to 2011. Now, that’s quite the achievement!
Most read posts
I have been mentioned quite a few times this year. Mary Smith, in particular, recommended two of my posts — a true honor!
- 10 websites to find free images for your blog
- 5 great alternatives to Google Adsense
- Top 10 Interview Questions Authors Are Asked
- Social Media – A History: Infographic
- Harness the power of LinkedIn in 10 simple tips
- 10 great ways to market yourself online
- The ultimate list of URL shortening services
- 10 of my favorite tweets
- Google Search Stories: Create powerful trailers within minutes
- The golden rules of a successful social media strategy
- 9 great Social Bookmarking plugins for your WordPress blog
- Learn to Use Hashtags
- What is Technorati and how can you benefit from it
- WordPress tutorial: Transfer your content to another WordPress blog
- 4 content curation services you may not know
Most commented posts
This year saw a sharp increase in comments on Creative Ramblings, something about which I am very happy. The seven articles below are great examples:
- The golden rules of a successful social media strategy
- 10 websites to find free images for your blog
- 5 ways to promote your blog by commenting on others
- Is social media responsible for our loss of privacy?
- What makes you different?
- Rock your next guest blogging opportunity with this guide
- This year in review: 5 major social media disasters
Thank you to my top commenters:
- Kristine
- Joy
- Aayna
- Fatima
- Sian Phillips
My favorite bloggers and social media professionals
During the last 12 months, I have had the opportunity to network with a bunch of people who repeatedly contributed and shared excellent content and ideas to the blogosphere.
- John Thomas
- Tom George (Internet Billboards)
- Katrina Moody (Kat’s Cafe)
- Jerry Doby (Doby Public Relations)
- Nick Kellet (List.ly)
- Ti Roberts (The SEO Rebel)
- Sian Phillips
- Steve Farnsworth (The @Steveology Blog)
- Ian Cleary (Razor Social)
- Ally Greer (Scoop.it)
- The team at Atomic Reach
- Bryan P. Hollis (Blog Interact)
- Dino Hukic (Socially Lost in Media)
- Liz Wilson (Content Works)
- Faydra Deon
- Jennifer Herndon
- Kelly Hungerford (Paper.li)
- Mandy Edwards (ME Marketing Services)
- Tom Treanor (Right Mix Marketing)
What’s next for Creative Ramblings and me?
2013 promises to be another busy, yet exciting time.
First, my eBook on social media strategies should be out by mid-year. While I am still working on the first draft, I am happy to report that things are looking quite good! You can follow my progress directly on this blog, as well as on Pinterest, Twitter, and Storify.
Would you like to help promote my new eBook before, during, and after its release? Email me at [email protected] and I will add you to the mailing list.
This year, I will also facilitate 10 social media workshops in Winnipeg, Canada. If time permits, I would like to organize a few affordable webinars as well.
Of course, I will continue reporting on social media news for Examiner.com. And you can expect more tips, advice, and thought-provoking content on Creative Ramblings.
Social Media 4 Good, my other blog, will have its own domain name and will be moved to self-hosted WordPress within the next few months. I love Tumblr, but the platform does not allow me to do too much.
I think that is all for this year. May you all have a wonderful 2013!
This article by Cendrine Marrouat is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
