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Worst Blog Posts of 2008

December 31st, 2008 · by David Bradley >> 9 Comments

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Everyone shouts about their winners, their great linkbaiters, their mass debaters, the posts that got the most comments, the one that crashed Digg, but I thought I’d do an end of year round up of the Bottom 5 posts on Sciencetext.com. Those posts that received the fewest hits.

So coming in at #5 with What if Google labels your site malware from February with less than 1000 readers.

#4 – Double broadband speed for free

#3 – CPU overload

#2 – Twitter between blog and email (I reckon if I posted this one fresh this month, it would skyrocket, given the current twinterest)

#1 – Absolutely the worst performing post, with a lowly total of just 450 onsite readers, since May 16 is Time Filter Google Results

Compare the #1 with a post like Hack XP limited user to computer administrator, which got tens of thousands of visitors and was one of the most popular of the year.

So there you have it the worst blog posts of 2008, think you can do worse? Let me know!

9 responses so far ↓

  • Rudy // Jan 1, 2009 at 4:38 am

    We can’t always produce posts with thousands of hits (unless you’re Ars Technica). But considering you only have 5 out of the year, that’s pretty darn good.

    Congrats for a successful 2008! Looking forward to more tips and tricks!

  • Abhishek // Jan 1, 2009 at 6:00 am

    Hi David ,,

    I think u r wrong ” What if Google labels your site malware ” this topic is really great.. Maybe it gets low hit but then also ,, it is among best topic.. from ur site…

    Recently I also get this type of problem,, and after reading ur that MAlware artile ,, I cn resolve this problem.

    thanks

    Abhishek

  • Shirley // Jan 1, 2009 at 12:50 pm

    Um… Great strategy. lol. It definitely caught my attention.

    …I can do worse. You know, its a shame, but some of my earlier posts never got their fair share of traffic. So I make sure to link to them via other posts. This way, even my oldest and most neglected posts get visitors.

  • Kim Woodbridge // Jan 2, 2009 at 1:55 pm

    Hmm … you never know what people are going to like. Sometimes I think an article will be really popular and it isn’t. Other times I think it’s a lame article that no one will care about and it’s the one everyone visits.

    It’s refreshing to see a bottom 5 list.

    And Happy New Year!

  • David Bradley // Jan 5, 2009 at 12:16 pm

    @Kim, yeah it is very interesting to see what doesn’t hit the spot. Obviously, posts about facebook hacks or circumventing firewalls are always popular, but like you say, some offbeat item might get picked up and really fly, especially if it gets Stumbled or whatever…

  • David Bradley // Jan 5, 2009 at 12:22 pm

    @Shirley I think we probably all have some golden nuggets locked away in our archives, I once asked Sciencetext readers to update me on some of those that were bound to be out of date or wrong in the light of current understanding, but there were few takers…

  • David Bradley // Jan 5, 2009 at 12:23 pm

    @Abhishek What do you mean, you think I’m wrong? Pah! Not allowed ;-) Point taken though, it is, as I said, surprising that posts that I thought would be hits failed to get the traffic I felt they deserved. Of course, since posting this bottom 5 post, all those failed posts have gained new readers!

  • psd to html // Mar 2, 2009 at 11:20 am

    No prbs if get failed to generate new readers to your blog , might take times to get settle properly keep posting and market your topic at perfect place.

  • David Bradley // Mar 2, 2009 at 11:40 am

    Wot?

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