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What blog posts bring in the most readers?

Published on Friday, August 8, 2008 – 12:10 am | 33 brilliant comments »

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It is always interesting to see what brings readers to a blog so I thought I might share with you guys what blog posts have brought the most visitors into Just Creative Design. Maybe you could employ the same strategies to get more readers to your blog?

According to our stats from the past 7 months (see below) these are my top 10 most popular pages on JCD.

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  3. 30 Fonts That ALL Designers Must Own
  4. 99 Sites ALL Designers Must Know About
  5. Home Page
  6. Graphic Design Portfolio
  7. Why logo design does not cost $5.00
  8. The Best Graphic Design Articles from 37 Top Design Blogs as Chosen By The Authors Themselves
  9. 15 Signs Your A Bad Graphic Designer
  10. 192 Creative, Smart & Clever Advertisements

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So What Blog Posts Bring In The Most Readers?

1. Long Large Numbered Resourceful Cool Lists

Upon further study you will notice that half of my top 10 posts are all geared towards the social media and they really lapped it up.

Any post that is a huge resourceful list will bring hundreds of thousands of visitors to your blog… so once in a while rather than writing 5 small posts, why don’t you spend 3 times as long writing a large list… Smashing Magazine is proof that it works and my top 4 articles prove this also.

Baby Sheep2. Original Articles with Catchy Titles

These were my three other posts that brought in tons of visitors. Each of these posts are unique and have a catchy title and are further proof that a good article with a catchy title will work for itself.

  1. Why logo design does not cost $5.00
  2. The Best Graphic Design Articles from 37 Top Design Blogs as Chosen By The Authors Themselves
  3. 15 Signs Your A Bad Graphic Designer

For some ideas why don’t you try find something that hasn’t been written about before in your niche? Try going around to all the blogs in your niche and ask for an interview, ask for their favourite post and compile them together in one large post? There are heaps of other unique ideas out there. I highly recommend you visit our Ultimate List of Blog Heading Templates & Titles post for some inspiration.

Where Do All The Readers Come From?

Social Media and Google without a doubt… For some more information on social media I wrote about it in length in this post: What is the best social media website? Digg, SU, Delicious, Reddit or? and for some tips on SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) read 10 SEO Rules for Designers.

The main traffic from JCD comes from StumbleUpon, Digg, DesignFloat and Google with the rest coming mainly from other design blogs… It really helps to be on other people’s blog rolls especially if they are in the same niche as you…I can assure you of that. Try to get on them, even if you have to ask.

Anyway, I would be interested to hear what everyone else’s most popular posts are… leave them in the comments!

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NEW: My Most Popular Articles Page

Published on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 – 2:45 pm | 15 brilliant comments »

Featured Articles

You may have noticed in my menu bar a new page called ‘Featured Articles‘… With the many articles found on this blog, it may be hard to find something you are looking for so this section helps you out by featuring my most popular articles sorted by category and also by date. Check it out…

Do you have any suggestions or comments on the new page? How could I improve it? Thanks.

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Popular Articles

Published on Monday, January 7, 2008 – 9:31 pm | 12 brilliant comments »

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Below you will find Just Creative Design’s most popular articles sorted by category.

You may also wish to view the full archives.

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Logo Design

You will find many more of my logo design related articles on my other blog: Logo Designer Blog and lots of logo design inspiration on my third site, Logo Of The Day.

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My Design Process

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Graphic Design Resources

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Graphic Design Articles

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Freelancing

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Typography

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Creativity

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Design For Students

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Photography

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Blogging

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Social Media

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Web Design

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Articles I’ve Written Elsewhere

I have written for a number of other blogs & magazines, below are some of them. You will also find many more of my logo design related articles over on my other blog, Logo Designer Blog.

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Other

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Also try using the search box on the top right of this website if there is something in particular you are looking for.

Also don’t be afraid to contact me asking for what it is you are looking for and I’ll give it my best shot to help you out. Cheers :)

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