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  • Penny's Top 20

    From George J. Dance@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 1 12:38:41 2024
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    I just finished compiling Penny's Poetry Blog's Top 20 for last month.
    Reading it over made me feel proud about what the blog has become, and I
    wanted to share that.

    The poets on November's Top 20 were:

    Wallace Stevens (2 poems)
    William Wordsworth
    John Clare
    Yvor Winters
    George J. Dance
    William Carlos Williams (2 poems)
    Pierre de Coubertin
    Laurence Binyon
    William Cullen Bryant
    Edward Thomas
    Arthur Rimbaud
    Edith Wyatt
    Bliss Carman
    William Collins
    Edwin Arnold
    Hartley Coleridge
    J.C. Squire
    Jack Kerouac

    Two honorable mentions are: Will Dockery, who had poems at #24, #27, and
    #28; and George Sulzbach, who took the #25 spot.

    No Jim Senetto, Michael Pendragon, or NancyGene, but I guess one can't
    have everything.

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  • From George J. Dance@21:1/5 to W.Dockery on Mon Dec 2 00:50:47 2024
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    On Sun, 1 Dec 2024 15:07:36 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:

    On Sun, 1 Dec 2024 12:38:37 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:

    I just finished compiling Penny's Poetry Blog's Top 20 for last month.
    Reading it over made me feel proud about what the blog has become, and I
    wanted to share that.

    The poets on November's Top 20 were:

    Wallace Stevens (2 poems)
    William Wordsworth
    John Clare
    Yvor Winters
    George J. Dance
    William Carlos Williams (2 poems)
    Pierre de Coubertin
    Laurence Binyon
    William Cullen Bryant
    Edward Thomas
    Arthur Rimbaud
    Edith Wyatt
    Bliss Carman
    William Collins
    Edwin Arnold
    Hartley Coleridge
    J.C. Squire
    Jack Kerouac

    Two honorable mentions are: Will Dockery, who had poems at #24, #27, and
    #28; and George Sulzbach, who took the #25 spot.

    No Jim Senetto, Michael Pendragon, or NancyGene, but I guess one can't
    have everything.

    I've really dropped in the charts, I'll need to try harder next year.

    😏

    You've been busy making music. One can't do everything.

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  • From George J. Dance@21:1/5 to All on Wed Dec 4 20:21:59 2024
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    What's made a real difference in the rankings is that the source of new
    reads is changing.

    Reads from Usenet have gone down dramatically since the end of google
    support, and Facebook readers have declined as well. I've begun posting
    on X and now BlueSky, but I'm not reaching that many readers there. As a
    result most of the new poems don't even reach the top 10, or "hit"
    status (30 reads) in their first month.

    So where are the new readers coming from. I've been doing some checking,
    and I don't think it's a coincidence that the top four poems (and six of
    the top seven) are all being listed on Google Search. That's a very
    limited number of poems, but but they've become the ones driving traffic
    to the blog.

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