2012 in review

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!

Click here to see the complete report.

Today over 400,000 people in total have visited this blog

WordPress now tells me which countries my visitors are coming from…

2012-02-09 to Today (350,744 visitors so far)

Country	Views
United States	3,774
Canada	1,551
United Kingdom	1,253
Australia	246
Philippines	225
India	174
Brazil	147
Mexico	115
Turkey	108
Netherlands	106
Germany	104
Poland	97
France	91
Italy	90
Malaysia	70
Sweden	60
Indonesia	60
South Africa	57
Ireland	57
New Zealand	55
Portugal	55
Singapore	51
Spain	51
Czech Republic	49
Norway	48
Switzerland	44
Denmark	44
United Arab Emirates	41
Croatia	41
Hungary	40
Hong Kong	39
Thailand	35
Romania	34
Russian Federation	33
Austria	31
Pakistan	29
Greece	29
Belgium	28
Slovakia	26
Jamaica	23
Peru	23
Republic of Korea	23
Japan	22
Viet Nam	20
Cyprus	20
Israel	18
Sri Lanka	18
Bulgaria	17
Finland	16
Jordan	15
Guatemala	15
Dominican Republic	15
Chile	14
Saudi Arabia	14
Slovenia	14
Ukraine	14
Venezuela	13
Georgia	13
Egypt	13
Lebanon	12
Serbia	11
Colombia	11
Taiwan	11
Iceland	11
Macedonia	10
Malta	10
Puerto Rico	10
Rwanda	10
Lithuania	10
Bosnia and Herzegovina	10
Honduras	9
Nepal	8
Qatar	8
Kenya	7
Maldova	7
Trinidad and Tobago	6
Ghana	6
Nigeria	6
Argentina	6
Panama	6
Bahrain	6
Costa Rica	5
Cambodia	5
Bangladesh	5
Bahamas	4
Estonia	4
Latvia	4
El Salvador	4
Montenegro	4
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	4
Bhutan	4
Guyana	3
Belarus	3
Armenia	3
Iraq	3
Namibia	3
Nicaragua	2
Luxembourg	2
Côte d’Ivoire	2
China	2
Bolivia	2
Benin	2
Ethiopia	2
Barbados	2
Myanmar	2
Aruba	2
Ecuador	2
Djibouti	2
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	2
Belize	2
Mongolia	2
Mauritius	1
Grenada	1
Algeria	1
Paraguay	1
Saint Kitts and Nevis	1
American Samoa	1
Albania	1
Guam	1
Yemen	1
Botswana	1
Jersey	1
Maldives	1
Macao	1
Morocco	1
Cayman Islands	1
Zambia

350,000 visitors later

Thank you to the 350,000 people who have visited this blog in the past two and a half years. During January and February 2012, I was away on a prayer sabbatical for a month on Sumas Mountain, and not posting new articles. Yet during that time, 37,041 of you dialed in to check out the 376 articles on a wide variety of topics, including explorers, inventors, pioneers, leaders, and people of faith who have made a difference.

Your support and interest in this blog means a lot to me. My hunch is that within a year, over half a million people will have dialed into this blog. May God use this blog for his kingdom purposes, in letting people know that they are loved and valued by a gracious Father who gave his only son for us.

Ed Hird+

http://stsimonschurch.ca

Looking back on 2011 Blogging

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

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

Heading towards 150,000 visitors by the end of March

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alphadesigner/2855407913/

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)

Almost 20,000 visited in January 2011

By Rev Ed Hird 

 

While in Greensboro North Carolina this past week, I heard AMiA plenary speaker Dr Leonard Sweet say that if you were born after 1973, you are the TGIF generation (not ‘Thank God it’s Friday, but Twitter, Google, IPhone, Facebook ). Those of us born before 1973 are immigrants to the TGIF world who face the challenge of learning a new language and a new culture. Are we willing to for the sake of the Good News? My father, who recently joined Facebook, is a shining example to me of someone who is not afraid to keep up technologically and to enter new worlds. When my dad became an electrical engineer in 1950, they were still using test-tubes for radio communication. Over sixty years later, my dad is still growing and learning. And so can you. It is never too late to innovate until they bury you in the ground.

 

One of the great features of the completely free
http://wordpress.com
 is the  finely tuned ‘site statistics’ counter.  It measures daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly number of people visiting. You can easily see how many view each particular article.  I discovered today that almost 20,000 people (the most yet in the first 1 & 1/2 years) visited
http://edhird.wordpress.com
in the month of January 2011.  It has gradually built up from just 1,000 visiting in the month of August 2009.  As well, last week when I was away at the AMiA Greensboro NC Winter Conference, almost 6,000 people visited my blog (the most in any week so far).

 

One of the reasons why my blog is getting so much traffic is that I have posted 285 articles that were previously written over the past 23 years for the Deep Cove Crier and the North Shore News.  With each article, I add ‘tags’ which Google reads to help direct people to my site. I have added around 5,000 tags for the 285 articles, a simple feature with
http://wordpress.com
  where you just add a word or phrase and click.

 

If you don’t have a
http://wordpress.com
blog yet, I encourage you to consider starting one today. You don’t need to be a techie. They have made blogging so simple that anyone can do it these days. See you online.

 

The Reverend Ed Hird, Rector

St. Simon’s Church North Vancouver 

Anglican Mission in the Americas (Canada)

http://stsimonschurch.ca

-award-winning author of the book ‘Battle for the Soul of Canada’

-previously published in the Deep Cove Crier

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 $9.99CDN/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

100,000 visits later

In the past year and a half, over 100,000 people have visited this blog. Thank you for taking the time to check it out. There are 273 articles that you can check out on
http://edhird.wordpress.com