end of the month routine<\/strong>\u2018.<\/p>\nIt involves a large latt\u00e8 (everything else hinges on this) and some delving into my blogs metrics to see how they\u2019ve been performing.<\/p>\n
While I do keep track of the traffic stats of my blogs each day I like to set aside an hour or two at the end of each month to go a little deeper and do some more analysis of trends on my blogs \u2013 I find that when I do this I notice things that I can build on to continue momentum on my blogs.<\/p>\n
This morning as I was looking at the type of posts that had done well in the last few weeks on my blogs I noticed an interesting trend \u2013 many of them were \u2018story<\/strong>\u2018 type posts.<\/p>\nBoth posts got a lot of traffic, were linked to by numerous other blogs and were re-tweeted more than normal.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve always known how powerful \u2018story posts<\/strong>\u2018 can be on a blog but I decided to dig a little further to see whether this continued deeper than just the last month.<\/p>\nWhat I discovered was that story posts have been among the most popular posts on this blog over the last 5 years time and time again. They\u2019re not the only type of post that does well (there are a few other types of posts that do well \u2013 we might explore these in a later post) but they certainly have performed very well for me.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a few more examples of popular story posts:<\/strong><\/p>\nI could go on\u2026. and on! Each month that I looked back on through my blog here at ProBlogger a story type post featured in the top 2 or three posts.<\/p>\n
Why are Stories Effective?<\/h3>\n
A lot could be said about the reasons why stories tend to do well on blogs but here\u2019s a few reasons that I\u2019ve seen in my own experience:<\/p>\n
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