Thursday, December 31, 2015

2015, the Year in Review Clickable Collage-Palooza

2015, the Year in Review Clickable Collage-Palooza


I like the format of a Clickable Collage and the arrangement of the Instagram Hashtag2015BestNine,  so I decided to offer up 3 Best 9 Clickable Collages to summarize my 3rd full year of blogging, along with some thoughts about moving forward into 2016.

My top 9 most visited posts of 2015 were all published in earlier years.

(Click on each image to go to the recipe it represents, hover over each image for the title)


A review of the best recipes posted in 2015, most popular posts visited in 2015, and top-performing pins of 2015, along with thoughts on the coming year.
The most visited posts from 2015.
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This further reinforces a few things to me:



  • Social Media is the present. The area I really need to work on is getting my content seen by my ideal audience--people looking to eat locally who are unfamiliar with lots of the vegetables they encounter. People looking to feed their families more vegetable-filled meals. People looking to save money by using their garden abundance throughout the year. Some of the best sources of traffic for me come from participating in recipe round ups. I've got a routine down for finding bloggers looking for my content, what I need to improve on is other ways to share my content on the internet.


A review of the best recipes posted in 2015, most popular posts visited in 2015, and top-performing pins of 2015, along with thoughts on the coming year.
The most visited posts published in 2015.

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As with farmers hunkering down and working behind the scenes during the winter months, I too will scale back. I'm not going to fix a tractor or set up irrigation lines. I intend to post twice a week and spend my found hours on Instagram on Facebook updating my 500+ recipes so that they are formatted for easy searchability. After all, 28% of my traffic comes from people googling things like 'garlic scape recipes' or 'green tomato recipes', seeing my posts appear in their search engine, and clicking on my page. Thank you! I've said I plan to do this back end work before, announcing that I'm on vacation, but then I actually take a vacation and don't spend my blogging break working behind the scenes. I'll try this in a different way and report back.

A review of the best recipes posted in 2015, most popular posts visited in 2015, and top-performing pins of 2015, along with thoughts on the coming year.
My top-performing pins on Pinterest in 2015.

As for numbers, I don't have a blow-by-blow to report on but they are up. After I added social media sharing buttons in October I had a definite increase in traffic. I have no idea why I didn't do that sooner. It was on the Blogging To Do list, and I'm glad I finally got around to it.


A review of the best recipes posted in 2015, most popular posts visited in 2015, and top-performing pins of 2015, along with thoughts on the coming year.

 I'm joining in Meghan's party over at Clean Eats Fast Feets. Check it out!Image Map


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Have a lovely 2016. Let me know how I can help you achieve your eating goals.

4 comments:

  1. I love when you join the link up, either by way of comments or by an actual post. The Social Media share buttons are a huge help.

    I never get the behind the scenes stuff when I'm vacation either. I always intend to and it never happens. Oh well, maybe we just need to take more blogging vacations. :)

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    1. Meghan,
      We should take blogging vacations together, where someone provides the food and high speed internet and we just hang out and bounce ideas off each other.
      I've done that with fellow scrapbookers, holed up in a hotel room scrapbooking until 4 am both nights of the weekend. Too much fun.
      Thanks!

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  2. Thanks for putting this list together, I bookmarked most of them. Glad to hear the numbers are up.

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    1. Amy,
      It's been a lot of fun figuring out my stats--always a pleasant surprise!
      Thanks!

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