Top Posts of 2012, Our most popular and sought after articles

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I always find it interesting to see what people love to read on my site. Especially since then I can know exactly what types of articles you all love to see the most. Then I can write more of them! I thought it would be fun to take a moment today to look back at my top posts of 2012. We get to see which articles were the most popular overall, and the most popular in each of my most popular categories! In a way you can say these are my best posts of the year. Or at least they are the ones that get the most traffic from our many social media channels and from search engines. Take this opportunity to browse our most popular posts and if you are new to our site, it’s an easy way to find our top posts!

Top posts of 2012 overall

This last year we had 88,693 Unique Visitors and 192,725 Pageviews. Not bad seeing as in 2011 we only had 2,281 unique visitors and only 10,352 pageviews for the year. So we have definitely grown leaps and bounds. Our top 5 posts of 2012 overall had a little surprise for me. Our top post of the year has been the top post of the year all year long. It continually gets traffic and is one people have bookmarked over and over again. I am thinking, it’s a great one! Definitely check it out. A few of the most popular posts are new posts published just within the last few months, so it surprised me that they were popular enough to make it onto the list. But I just love seeing what you, my amazing readers find to be the most interesting content.

1. Best Ever US Cheesecake, No bake recipe

2. Smarties Lightsaber Craft tutorial

3. Elizabeth Arden Prevage Lash review

4. Beware of Dogs

5. If the Shoe Doesn’t fit shoe auction site review.

Top Posts of 2012- Where My readers come from

So this one isn’t quite about my own articles, but it does have a lot with how my site performed last year. Many bloggers may wonder just where all you amazing readers find my site. It can help them figure out what areas they can improve on to increase readership on their own sites, if they know which sources have brought me great traffic this last year. So these are the top 5 referring sources for our traffic of 2012.

1. Google Search (organic)

2. Facebook.com (I was surprised about this as it has been a horrible traffic source for the last 4 months; so it must be all the traffic it brought me at the beginning of the year that kept this spot for it).

3. Stumbleupon

4. Rafflecopter.com (From giveaways)

5. Twitter

The irony is if we were to take just the last 3 months, the list of sites would have two very big changes. Twitter would not appear on this list and Facebook would be last, but Pinterest would be included. Interesting how things change from the beginning of the year and then at the end.

My goals for 2013, is to continue to grow our blog, improve our content, increase recipes and tutorials. I will be getting some advice from my dear friend from MadeByMarzipan, my favorite craft blog, on how to create video tutorials! Then I will hopefully be able to bring you some crochet video tutorials as well! She is brilliant and if you haven’t checked out her website, you definitely need to! She has amazing craft video tutorials!

What are your favorite posts on JadeLouise Designs?

Did your favorite make the top posts list?

If not, let me know your favorite article/s in the comments below. I’d love to know!

This is your time to let me know what you love to see for articles.

Once I know what you love to read, I can create more of it for you!

What are your favorites of our Top Posts?

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1 Jenn January 6, 2013 at 10:28 pm

I am not surprised to se how wellyou are doing. Looks like most of the popular posts are how to or recipes. I loved the US strawberry Cheesecake the best. Keep up the good work

2 Stephanie LaPlante January 6, 2013 at 12:55 pm

I’m very new to this blog and absolutely love it! To see what I missed makes me look forward to see what comes.

3 Heather January 4, 2013 at 7:20 pm

I’m going to have to try the bacon and potato soup! Seems we have soup at least 3 nights/week here!

4 deb January 4, 2013 at 5:55 pm

Love the post round up. What a great way to review the year.

5 Tara January 4, 2013 at 4:23 pm

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6 mel January 4, 2013 at 4:00 pm

The smarties post was one of my favorites. You write so well though so I love all of them:)

7 Amber Edwards January 4, 2013 at 11:19 pm: Ahhh, you are so sweet Melissa! Thank you.

8 Jacqui Odell January 4, 2013 at 3:52 pm

I love the cheesecake post!

9 Melody January 4, 2013 at 1:33 pm

That cheesecake looks amazing! Congrats on your great stats for the year, too! Keep up the good work! Oh, and I’m so pinning that bacon soup post…My boyfriend will love it!

10 Nicole (Mama to 4 Blessings) January 4, 2013 at 12:25 pm

that pie looks like a must make for 4th of July! Looks refreshing and easy – thank you for sharing!

11 Amanda Taylor @ Survival Guide by The Working Mom January 4, 2013 at 11:45 am

I can see why that cheesecake was a top post, it looks delicious! I am definitely going to try it this summer. And that potato soup, I am such a foodie! lol

12 Krystle(Baking Beauty) January 4, 2013 at 11:00 am

I read your blog pretty often, so I can’t believe I missed the potato soup recipe. We love making it in the wintertime and I’m always looking for new twists on it!

13 LisaLisa January 4, 2013 at 10:36 am