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!

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Breaking the 500,000 barrier

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.

Pre-Christmas Discount for the ebook Battle for the Soul of Canada

Dear friends in Christ,

I am offering a $3.00 ‘Christmas Present’ discount on the ebook ‘Battle For the Soul of Canada’ (regular $9.99, for Christmas $6.99). For those who have previously purchased the paperback version, the Christmas cost for the e-book is $4.99. Bulk orders during the pre-Christmas season of the e-book will be $3.99 each.

The ebook will be emailed to you (normally the same day as your PayPal purchase)  in three versions: epub which works with KOBO, pdf, and MOBI (which works with Kindle). To obtain the ebook, This can be done by PAYPAL using the e-mail ed_hird@telus.net  . The other option is to mail a cheque to ‘Ed Hird’, #1008-555 West 28th Street, North Vancouver, BC Canada V7N 2J7.

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This Monday May 21st is Janice and my 35th Wedding Anniversary

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

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

My top 10 online articles in the past two years

Dear friends in Christ,

 

Thank you for your regular viewing of this blog over the past two+ years. Just click on the links to view any of the following top 10 articles.  I would welcome your feedback as to why these ten articles have been the most viewed of my 380+ online articles.

Wondering, Ed+

Home page		78,570
Florence Nightingale: Mother of Nursing		30,412
Motherhood and Apple Pie		29,067
Queen Victoria and Sir James Simpson		18,462
The Unforgettable Benjamin Franklin		15,838
Winston Churchill the British Bulldog		9,500
Alexander Graham Bell: Inventing the future		9,245
Laura Secord: more than just chocolates		4,785
Jesus Loves me, This I know…		4,378
Dr. James Naismith: Father of Basketball		4,289

Over 1,100 visitors yesterday

		Views
Motherhood and Apple Pie		351
Home page		345
Florence Nightingale: Mother of Nursing		145
Alexander Graham Bell: Inventing the future		36
Sir Alexander Fleming: Countless Millions Saved		28
Dr. James Naismith: Father of Basketball		25
My Fair Lady		16
Thomas Edison: Let There Be Light….		15
Simon Fraser: Canada’s most successful failure		13
The Passion of Louis Riel		9
Other posts		134
Total views of posts on your blog		1,117

 

Yesterday was the most traffic on my blog since I started in just over two years. For the first time, over 1,100 people dialed in to read the 383 postings.  Most of these postings are newspaper articles that I have written over the past twenty-five years for the Deep Cove Crier and the North Shore News. During this past month of October, my blog had for the first time over 25,000 visitors. The first month of the blog in August 2009, I had just over 1,000 visitors. So there has been a 25-fold increase in internet traffic to the site.  Thank you so much for your continued interest and support.

 

Also, as of yesterday, the blog has now had 275,000+ visitors.  Here are the favorite articles viewed for the past 30 days.  You can read any of them right now by just clicking on the name of a particular article. Your feedback is most welcome.  Without readers, writing is not quite the same:

Home page		8,073
Motherhood and Apple Pie		5,974
Florence Nightingale: Mother of Nursing		3,602
Alexander Graham Bell: Inventing the future		773
Thomas Edison: Let There Be Light….		597
My Fair Lady		503
Sir Alexander Fleming: Countless Millions Saved		430
Simon Fraser: Canada’s most successful failure		393
Queen Victoria and Sir James Simpson		370
Dr. James Naismith: Father of Basketball		359

250,000 visitors later

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:

Home page		63,585
Florence Nightingale: Mother of Nursing		24,444
Motherhood and Apple Pie		18,289
Queen Victoria and Sir James Simpson		17,724
The Unforgettable Benjamin Franklin		15,781
Winston Churchill the British Bulldog		9,406
Alexander Graham Bell: Inventing the future		7,990
Laura Secord: more than just chocolates		4,460
Jesus Loves me, This I know…		4,216
Samuel de Champlain and Sieur de Monts: Canadian heroes		3,682
Dr. James Naismith: Father of Basketball		3,649
Pain: Useless intrusion or gift of God?		3,611
Thomas Edison: Let There Be Light….		3,124
Carl Jung, Neo-gnosticism, and the MBTI		2,918
Alfred Nobel: Lord of Dynamite, Servant of Peace		2,863
Sir Alexander Mackenzie the Scottish Bulldog		2,627
Taekwondo and the Martial Arts: Mere Exercise or Trojan Horse??		2,045
Simon Fraser: Canada’s most successful failure		1,978
Louis Riel: Canadian Patriot?		1,964
Carl Jung and the Gnostic Reconciliation of Gender Opposites		1,919
Don Quixote: Chasing After Marriage’s Windmills		1,859
James Watt: Creative Genius		1,679
Good King Wenceslas last looked out…		1,660
My Fair Lady		1,530
The Gift of Courage Can Be Imparted		1,510
Sir Alexander Fleming: Countless Millions Saved		1,435
When the Saints Come Marching In		1,433
The Birth of the Book		1,395
Captain James Cook: World Explorer		1,392
Lord and Lady Baden-Powell: Character Builders		1,200
David Thompson: “Star-Gazer”		1,088

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

Almost 240,000 visitors later…

Dear friends in Christ,

It is such an encouragement that my two-year blog has had almost 240,000 visitors in the past two years.  This week there have been around 800 people every day checking out the 372 articles, most of which were previously published in mainstream newspapers.

This month of September has seen over 21,000 people check out the blog, paralleling the previous peak month of February 2011.  This response is five times the 4,000 people who visited the blog last September 2010 and ten times the 2,000 people who visited the blog two years ago in September 2009.  My next goal is to double this to 500,000 visitors in the next two years.

Thanks for all your support. May the good news of Jesus touch many through the interesting medium of the internet.

In Christ,

Ed Hird+

The AM–Canada

http://stsimonschurch.ca

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

http://battleforthesoulofcanada.blogspot.com

-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