Sunday, January 3, 2010 3:44 pm | Edgar A. Gunther
As ranked by Google Analytics page views.
Plus my Top 10 Editorial Picks.
The Blog continued to grow in popularity and influence in 2009. Per FeedBurner, RSS and email subscribers grew from about 750 to over 1200 at year end. After starting to experiment with twitter last January, I did a complete twitter integration in May including automated weekly summary posts Powered by Twitter Tools. One subscriber thought I went overboard with twitter and didn’t care for the dense tweet summaries.
Here are the top 10 GUNTHER Portfolio photovoltaic (PV) posts from 2009 as ranked by Google Analytics single page views.
The Blog almost doubled in popularity during a 2008 filled with personal challenges centered around the GUNTHER Portfolio Hiatus auto accident and aftermath. Per FeedBurner, RSS and email subscribers grew from 400 to about 750 at year end. After numerous delays transparent to readers, GUNTHER Portfolio launches guntherportfolio.com marked the Beta launch of the Blog onto a self-hosted domain. I still consider it Beta.
Here are what I consider to be my top 10 photovoltaic posts from 2008 using popularity, exclusive content, and my own subjective ranking criteria.
1. Stion leaves Photovoltaic Patent Trail – This post generated the highest single traffic day at the Blog thanks to a link from Martin LaMonica at the CNET
Monday, January 7, 2008 4:46 am | Edgar A. Gunther
My Top 5 Headlines and Posts, Top 5 Most Popular Posts, and 5 Trends to Watch in 2008
Polysilicon shortages, Thin Film Photovoltaics, CSP, HCPV, and Recession Risk
First, I want to thank Katie Fehrenbacher over at Earth2Tech for linking to Photovoltaics: 2007 Post Review and 2008 Trends to Watch – Part 1 in the January 3rd, 2008, post of The Daily Sprout.
Before getting to the 5 Trends to Watch in 2008, let’s look at the Top 5 Most Popular Posts of 2007 with readers and subscribers. Skip ahead if you just CANNOT wait.
Even though I use
Thursday, January 3, 2008 4:40 am | Edgar A. Gunther
My Top 5 Headlines and Posts, Top 5 Most Popular Posts, and 5 Trends to Watch in 2008
As usual, I am a day or two late on the ubiquitous 2007 Blog year in review and 2008 trends post.
2007 started off strong with the second installment of the Solarvalue Ruše series:
Solar Grade Silicon roads lead to Ruše - Part 2 (Part 1, Part 3)
And the Blog ramped in popularity throughout 2007. Per FeedBurner, my RSS and email subscribers grew from an intrepid fifty (50) base to a year end niche 400. That’s a better growth rate than a certain Solar First stock. Yes, Solar and First were transposed on purpose. I don’t like having Blog Posts