Welcome to my “new” blog. Of course, the content (up to this post) isn’t really new, it’s just been moved from my old blog (and traffic is now being redirected), which I’ve split into three separate blogs. The changes from old blog to new will improve audience experience by removing unrelated material.
My horse-focused content will be here. I assume those of you who read it don’t really want to have to scroll past information on collecting and analyzing data, so my research and statistics content is at Wild World of Research. Everything else–blogs on writing, travel, philosophy, fiction, politics–will appear on Wild Woman’s World.
Changes from old blog to new were sad…
It was a bit sad to close the old blog. The hardest part is losing the page view stats! Not that they are that impressive, compared with professional bloggers, but I am always astonished that anyone wants to read what I write (with the exception of the research how-tos, which I started when I realized that a blog could save me hours of explaining to people how to do things).
Addendum: Just realized two more losses: the “Likes” on my old posts, and (as far as I can tell), my old WordPress.com followers…
Stats from the old blog:
By year:
2015: 482 page views, 23 posts
2016: 2,248, 4 posts
2017: 5,022 pageviews, 11 posts
2018: 5,408 pageviews, 7 posts
2019: 4,654 pageviews, 4 posts, through yesterday (August 30).
Total: 17,814
By type of page/post:
Homepage/Archives: 2,495
Research/Statistics: 5,699
Horses: 6,982
Everything else: 2,638
The winning posts:
Tips on Using MTurk with Qualtrics: 3,209
Bits, Bosals, and Hackamores: 1,504
Statistics Calculator (page): 1,230
How to Discourage Questioning in an Online Horse Forum: 1,126
In Defense of “Hot” Horses: 841
Review: Zaldi Endurance saddle Endur-Light: 834
Racing vs riding and the US Endurance debate: 820
Sweeney Shoulder: 803
Clearly, horses win…
But stats information brings a slow but steady audience. Changing from old multipurpose blog to separate, focused new blogs benefit everyone.