> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://onemanandhisblog.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # The top 10 One Man & His Blog posts of 2015 - URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2016/01/2015-year-in-review-traffic/ - Published: 2016-01-05T15:03:24.000Z - Updated: 2016-01-05T15:18:28.000Z - Author: Adam Tinworth - Tags: analytics, Blogging, OM&HB, traffic, year in review So, how was 2015 for *One Man & His Blog*? Pretty good, all things considered. I had much less time than usual to devote to the blog, due to a very successful working year, but I still managed a 15% increase on 2014’s traffic. I hope (and have plans) to significantly better that in 2016\. Much of that gain was down to a handful of very successful posts, which you’ll find out more about below. I really hope to write much more – and do different forms of journalism – through 2016\. While training and helping others to do journalism is gratifying (and lucrative), I have a real urge to write more myself. If I get to this time next year without doing so, I’ll be very disappointed indeed. On the back end, I finally [migrated from an ageing Movable Type install](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2015/04/vale%5Fmovable%5Ftype.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) to a brand spanking new WordPress install on WP-Engine, considerably upping the server power behind it. Downtime has been minimal this year, which is gratifying. Anyway, without further ado, here’s the top 10 *OM&HB* posts in 2015: --- ## 1\. [Bookerly: Amazon’s new Kindle font](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2015/01/bookerly%5Famazons%5Fnew%5Fkindle%5Ffont.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) ![bookerly-eink](https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2015/08/bookerly-eink.jpg?resize=960%2C730) The top post of the year was *huge* in terms of traffic for me. And I’m very smug about that. For a while I’d been slightly concerned about the disconnect between teaching SEO for journalists – and the fact that I rarely work hard on SEO for this blog. I write it for the regular readers, not the “drive-bys”. When my Fire Tablet got an update adding a new font to the kindle app, and I couldn’t find anything good online about it, I saw the opportunity to write something heavily SEO optimised about it – and reaped the rewards. A couple of links from big sites when the font hit the e-ink readers added to the success. Nice to know that I can do it when I want to. ## 2\. [Want to read your iPad in the bath?](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2014/01/want%5Fto%5Fread%5Fyour%5Fipad%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fbath.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) 2014’s SEO test is still doing the business. And I do, in fact, do this, on the rare occasions I have a bath. (I shower every day, before you go getting any ideas…) ## 3\. [Why your big custom CMS project is doomed](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2015/01/publishers-custom-content-management.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) A short, link-based post hitting number three? It’s the content. Too many people out there who have been badly burned by disastrous CMS projects. ## 4\. [Drink black coffee? You may be a psycho](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2015/10/drink-black-coffee-you-may-be-a-psycho.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) ![Killer Coffee](https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2015/10/killer-coffee.jpg?resize=960%2C640) Another short post that did *great* traffic numbers for me. And I think we all know why, don’t we? Mine’s a black Americano, thanks. ## 5\. [Amazon’s Bookerly font arrives on E Ink Kindles](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2015/08/amazons-bookerly-font-arrives-on-e-ink-kindles.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) The follow-up to the year’s big winner couldn’t quite replicate its success – but then, there was much, much more competition for those search terms this time around. I’m still pretty pleased with this. ## 6\. [Markdown versus CommonMark: the ambiguity and clarity dilemma](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2014/09/markdown-commonmark-open-source-controversy.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) Another 2014 post in the chart, doing the numbers thanks to search traffic. This was a big topic in a particular niche of the tech/publishing web, and there aren’t a lot of good explainers out there on the topic. I’d accidentally filled that niche, and saw the benefits with consistent traffic over 15 months. ## 7\. [Pando erects paywall of irrelevance](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2015/06/pando-erects-paywall-of-irrelevance.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) It appears the appetite for posts mocking the self-important Pando team is nearly as large as [their appetite for stealing my photos](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2015/06/pando-copyright-abuse.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). I’m glad to have been of service in this instance. ## 8\. [Backed: Typed, a new blogging platform](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2015/02/typed-blog-platform-crowdfunding.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) ![typed-blog-platform.jpg](https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2015/02/typed-blog-platform.jpg.png?resize=960%2C454) This one was a surprise. Typed was – *is* – a brand new blogging platform created by the good folks at realMac just down the coast from me in Brighton. Their crowdfunding campaign was a great success – and [the platform is now live](https://www.typed.com/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). It’s great that I was able to help promote that, and I really must hunker down and spend some time using it this year. ## 9\. [Chef Phil Howard talks about his drug addiction](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/09/chef%5Fphil%5Fhoward%5Ftalks%5Fabout%5Fhis%5Fdrug%5Fad.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) The first piece of *really* evergreen content on the list. This gets huge spikes of traffic every time Phil Howard is on TV. I’m not sure I can count on the traffic for much longer, though. The embedded video is Flash-based, and that will tend to decay usability and therefore search traffic over time. I’ll be really surprised if this is in the top 10 again next year. ## 10\. [Pando’s nicking my photos again](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2015/06/pando-copyright-abuse.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) See what I mean about the appetite for posts mocking the self-righteous tech clique over at Pando? They nicked my photo *again*, and never apologised, even though they change the image when it was pointed out. And then they went and hid behind a paywall. Good riddance, I say… --- And that’s it for 2015’s traffic. I suppose I should get on with generating 2016’s traffic.