Return of The (original) Stub September 6, 2009
Posted by gem in ARTICLES.Tags: Batman, Eclipse, Film, google, Irish film., stats, The Stub, Twilight, wordpress
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After a few weeks summer break, The Stub has resumed normal business, and, I’m glad to say, is now two years old, since August 3rd! In the past two years, The Stub has somehow reached top of the google list (if you google ‘The Stub’ that is). We even pushed away that Wikipedia notice on ‘stubs’. But now, residing just beneath the Irish blog, a new Stub has materialized, beamed all the way from Canada by the looks of things and packed with film news and all things Hollywood. Don’t go there! I have to say I’m both horrified and in awe. They even have a snazzy Stub logo that I planned at least two years ago..*sigh. Nevertheless, for Irish news, and film reviews, you won’t beat your trusty Irish Stub. And don’t they say that a little bit of friendly rivalry never did anyone any harm? (Just keep us top of the google list)
And now for the statistics:
WordPress blogs are very informative as to how many hits your posts receive and where those hits come from. Here’s some Stub info from the past two years; it makes for a good analysis of what people are googling. And an awful lot googled Batman..:
Most Popular Posts:
Batman wasn’t the only thing on top of most people’s movie agendas; the scary amount of Twilight fans out there account for my posts on Irish film ‘The Eclipse’ receiving so many hits. Fortunately, plenty Irish people who were on set in Cobh also found these posts and left comments about their experiences. As a result, the ‘Eclipse’ set photos post has the highest comment count at 19, while a piece on the Corona Fastnet Film Festival comes second with 18 comments.
Most popular google terms:
No surprises at the top five google terms leading people to this blog:
Twilight: 16, 998 (probably turning to 17, 000 as I type)
Batman: 6, 607
The Dark Knight: 2, 775
Bellatrix Lestrange: 1, 670
Auditions for Eclipse: 987
From an Irish point of view there were some other interesting stats aswell. 239 people googled Irish actress, Elaine Cassidy, while ‘Auditions in Cork’ was searched 153 times, and potential local movie ‘RA Child’ 147 times.
Now that the ball is rolling again, I’ll be sticking up lots more news over the next few days on Irish films and competitions, aswell as regular movie reviews. You can now rate a post too, as you can see at the top of this and all other posts on here. Thanks for reading!
Admit it, you only posted this article as an excuse to mention “Batman” and “Twilight” again… a cunning marketing ploy designed to defeat your new Canadian rivals!
Shh you’re giving away my blogging secrets! I swear after this I’ll never mention that vampire movie ever again (at least until the sequel comes out!)
Hardly defeating the Canadian Rivals. When I made this website over a year ago this didn’t even come up on a google hit. I was looking for the name to see if anyone else used The Stub, and found only references to ticket agencies.
The Stub is a spinoff of the insanely popular TheMovieBlog.com which I have been writing for the better part of the decade.
Go there.