2012 in review
December 30, 2012
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 190,000 times in 2012. If it were Liechtenstein, it would take about 3 years for that many people to see it. Your blog had more visits than a small country in Europe!
Breaking the 500,000 barrier
December 26, 2012
I found it ironic that the 500,000 barrier was broken on Christmas Day. Thank you for the 500,000 viewers over the past three years.
Looking back on 2011 Blogging
December 28, 2011
By Rev Ed Hird
When Chip MacGregor encouraged me to set up my own blog in June 2009, I had no idea that 306,000 people would find their way to this blog. Thank you for coming to visit. My blog was officially started in August 2009, with 14,439 people visiting by the end of December 2009. In the second year of 2010, 73,876 people came to visit the blog. As of the third year of 2011, as December is wrapping up, 217,622 people have paid a visit.
Most of my 372 blog articles are reposted from articles that I originally wrote over the past 24 years for the Deep Cove Crier and the North Shore News. My peak month so far has been November 2011 when 25,856 people came for a visit. Many of these visitors appear to be students researching for school assignments. God is so creative in the ways that he is reaching the emerging generation, who may have never been to church. Please pray with me that God will continue to use this blog to reach young people who may know little or nothing about the good news of Jesus Christ.
My hunch is that over half a million people cumulatively will have visited this blog by sometime in 2012. May God touch these half a million people with abundant lasting life, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Breaking the 300,000 visitor barrier
December 16, 2011
Thanks for all your support in 2011 through visiting my blog. As of today, 300,000 of you have dropped in to read some of the 385 online articles. Five days ago, almost 1200 people paid the blog a visit, the most in the past two+ years that the blog has existed.
I encourage you to tell your friends about this blog.
Blessings, Ed Hird+
http://edhird.wordpress.com
250,000 visitors later
October 16, 2011
As of today, the http://edhird.wordpress.com blog has had 250,000 visitors in just over two years. These are the more widely read of the blog articles:
The Reverend Ed Hird, Rector
St. Simon’s Church North Vancouver
Anglican Mission in the Americas (Canada)
http://stsimonschurch.ca
-previously published in the North Shore News & the Deep Cove Crier
-award-winning author of the book ‘Battle for the Soul of Canada’
http://www.battleforthesoulofcanada.blogspot.com
p.s. In order to obtain a copy of the book ‘Battle for the Soul of Canada’, please send a $18.50 cheque to ‘Ed Hird’, #1008-555 West 28th Street, North Vancouver, BC V7N 2J7. For mailing the book to the USA, please send $20.00 USD. This can also be done by PAYPAL using the e-mail ed_hird@telus.net . Be sure to list your mailing address. The Battle for the Soul of Canada e-book can be obtained for $9.99 CDN/USD.
-Click to download a complimentary PDF copy of the Battle for the Soul study guide : Seeking God’s Solution for a Spirit-Filled Canada
You can also download the complimentary Leader’s Guide PDF: Battle for the Soul Leaders Guide
200,000 visitors…
July 13, 2011
Within the next 24 or so hours, we will have had 200,000 visitors to this blog (100,000 new visitors since Jan 2011 http://edhird.wordpress.com
Through your dialing in today, you will help us reach that number of people .
This blog started on August 2009, less than two years ago. The next goal will be to have a total of 500,000 visitors which we will hopefully see within the next two years.
There are now 353 articles on the blog that you can check out. Thanks for your support and interest. The most popular articles are as follows:
175,000 visitors later…
May 21, 2011
Thank you to all the 175,000 people who have so far visited this blog since August 2009. There are now over 330 articles posted that you can look at and forward to others. On average, there are around 600 people checking out this blog every day.
The busiest day so far was on Feb 7th with 1,054 people checking in. The busiest month so far was February 2011 with 21,464 people visiting. Keep coming back. I pray that God will continue to use this blog to impact others with His Kingdom.
Heading towards 150,000 visitors by the end of March
March 14, 2011
My blog today has reached 140,000 visitors since it was started a year and a half ago. At this rate, God-willing, there will be 150,000 visitors by the end of March.
For the past nine weeks, it has been reaching 5,000 visitors per week. This February, there were over 21,000 visitors, compared to just 2,000 visitors in September 2009.
Thank you to all of you who have been visiting the website. For those of you who are new, feel free to check out the 300 articles. You are encouraged to invite your FB, Twitter and e-mail friends to also drop by for a visit.
Blessings, Ed Hird+
http://stsimonschurch.ca
Anglican Mission in the Americas (Canada)
100,000 visits later
January 20, 2011
edhird
