My friend Gini Dietrich over at Spin Sucks recently shared her most popular blog posts of 2012.
The cool part, aside the links to all the intelligent (and entertaining) posts, is that her friend Adam Singer, who now works at Google, has created an analytics dashboard that makes the process simple. (Follow the link at the bottom of this post to get stats for your own blog.)
First, let me say that this was a refreshing exercise because it did not use number of comments as one of the measures. Instead it plotted the more important reader behaviors, things like pageviews, unique page views, unique visitors, social shares and average time on page.
And guess what? The posts I thought were my most popular ones, in some cases, didn’t even make the list. Read on for the ones that did.





The passing of Apple Co-founder Steve Jobs on October 5, 2011 was a watershed moment for me. No matter which side we are on—the PC lovers or the Mac addicts—I think we all recognized the genius of this man.
Write for yourself. No, you should write for your readers.
I’m not a big fan of rant blog posts. They get old fast, especially when every blogger on the block is doing them.
On your way to becoming an A-list blogger, marketer, copywriter, or author, you probably try on ideas. Maybe you even use them. You take the advice, apply it to your personal situation and make it your own.
In the movie Anchorman, Will Ferrell’s character, Ron Burgundy, tells his friends, “Veronica and I tried this new fad called, uh, jogging. I believe it’s ‘jogging’— or ‘yogging.’ It might be a soft ‘j.’”
Vacations, broken wrists and gorgeous island days make for iced tea, my famous frozen margarita pie and a little reflection. I’m leaving you today with a post I originally wrote on For Bloggers by Bloggers—along with my hope that you are finding some time to get out in the sun and enjoy these beautiful days before they go ‘whoosh:’ 




