Happy First Blogiversary to the Scottish Emigration Blog

One year ago today, 11 June 2010, I published the first post for the Scottish Emigration Blog. I would like to thank each and every one of you for helping to make this past blogging year a success. I could have done it without you, but it wouldn't have been any fun.

I thought a fitting blogiversary post would be a collection of statistics. Blogger began collecting stats in August 2010 two months after I started the bog. During these early days, however, I was related most of the five people who read the blog, so the stats will not be greatly impacted by two missing months.

When they say it's the world wide web - they really mean it!  Readers came to The Scottish Emigration Blog from 45 countries. I've listed the countries in alphabetical order, those with an aserisk* are in the top ten.

1. Argentina
2. Australia*
3. Austria
4. Brazil
5. Belarus
6. Belgium
7. Canada*
8. Chile
9. China
10. Colombia
11. Croatia
12. Denmark
13. Finland
14. France
15. Germany*
16. Hungary
17. Iceland
18. India
19. Indonesia
20. Iran
21. Ireland
22. Israel
23. Italy
24. Japan
25. Latvia
26. Luxembourg
27. Malaysia
28. Moldavia
29. Myanmar (Burma)
30. New Zealand*
31. Netherlands*
32. Nigeria
33. Pakistan
34. Poland
35. Russia*
36. Slovenia*
37. South Africa
38. South Korea*
39. Sri Lanka
40. Sweden
41. Switzerland
42. Taiwan
43. Ukraine
44. United Kingdom*
45. United States*

 The ten most popular posts, in order, from the past year were: 

1. Scots in Delaware County, New York
2. The Scots: A Genetic Journey in the Scotsman and Episode 3 on the Radio
3. The Hector, 1773 and 2008
4. Scottish Emigration Reading List, part one
5. Scottish Ancestors in Scandinavia
6. Conference: Celts in the America, June 2011
7. Scottish Emigration Reading List, part two
8. The Scots: A Genetic Journey - History program from BBC Scotland
9. Donald Whyte and A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants
10. Transported from Scotland to the Americas in the 1650s

The ten most popular search keywords were:

1. scottishemigration.blogspot.com
2. cvsyx5rsb4ab (nb. I think this is the code Technorati told me to hide in the blog, but then they told me it wasn't a blog, so they wouldn't index it on their site. A pox on Technorati.)
3. "john and sarah" scottish prisoner
4. celts in the americas 2011
5. erik andersson kiorbiauw
6. scottish emigration
7. "essays on northeastern north america, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries"
8. amanda e. epperson
9. and biographical sketches
10. scottishemigration.blogspot.com/

Of course popular is a relative term as the keywords in the number one spot only brought eight people to the blog.

And finally, for the past year if one searched for "scottish emigration" on Bing or Yahoo, The Scottish Emigration Blog appeared on the first page of the results. However, on Google, it didn't appear until about page seven. I checked yesterday, June 10th, and the blog now appears on page two! I know, it's not as great as the first page, but it is a vast improvement over page seven.

Thanks again for the blog reading, following and subscribing! If you haven't yet subscribed please do. I look forward to having each of you join me as The Scottish Emigration Blog embarks on a second successful year. 


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