There's Something About Translation: 2007 in review

I’m going to do a more in-depth review of my experience of blogging after March 2008, the 12 month anniversary of when I started to regularly blog. In the meantime, here’s a quick’n'dirty review of 2007, based on Google Analytics stats from the entire year:

Top 10 most popular posts

1. Harry Potter in translation
2. Swear words
3. Key phrases
4. Join the translation neighbourhood watch
5. What are you worth? Don’t be a monkey
6. Knowing your worth
7. I signed up for payscale
8. Translating in Dublin’s Fair City
9. Friday funnies: Make the naked translator into a super translator
10. A chance to prove yourself

Top 10 keywords entered into search engines to find this blog

1. chand lakhwani proz (by a LONG shot – not sure why or how, either!)
2. naked translator
3. freelance translat english to portuguese blog (again, not sure why this exact search string is so popular, or why it finds me…)
4. grindhopper
5. the naked translator
6. nakedtranslator something
7. about translation
8. jed schmidt (yay to the original mobile translator!)
9. harry potter translations (still going strong. If it was traffic pure and simple I was after, I’d build an entire blog around this. Too easy… )
10. naked translation

Top sites referring visitors to this blog

1. Google
2. Nakedtranslations.com
3. Deweymonster.com
4. entraduisant.splinder.com
5. life-in-translation.blogspot.com
6. armiebagagli.splinder.com
7. margaret-marks.com
8. blog.penelopetrunk.com
9. iti-wmg.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
10. Bloglines.com

I’m pleased with how the year has gone in blogging terms. I only started to blog regularly from March, but posted a total of 100 times. I’ve experimented with different kinds of posts (lists, reports, quick link referrals, humourous posts, opinion pieces, etc.) and I hope I’ve started to find a more consistent voice for myself too. I’m looking forward to taking full stock of the experience later in the year!

For 2008, I’d like to continue to blog at an average of 2 – 3 posts per week, but hopefully concentrate a little more on opinion and reporting-style pieces. No doubt the blogosphere will have its own opinion, but I find I get more out of it when I take the time to craft an article of sorts about whatever has caught my attention at the time.

Onwards and upwards for us all, then!

About the author

Sarah Dillon is a qualified, accredited and experienced professional translator originally from Co. Clare in Ireland. She specialises in producing English-language texts that don't "sound" like translations, ensuring her clients' message has the desired impact in their overseas market. She is based in Brisbane, Australia and works with corporate clients, small businesses, agencies and nonprofit organisations all over the world. In her spare time, Sarah is also Marketing Director of eCPD Webinars.

Sarah Dillon has written 252 posts for There's Something About Translation.

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