Recently, I checked my blog’s stats to find that for 2024, I’ve broken my previous record of yearly page views even though I published fewer posts this year comparatively. But the upward trend started before this year. I noticed in 2023 that daily page views had doubled, and after looking into it, I finally found the reason. It’s due to hits from Google searches to two specific blog posts: one being my badge and award summary from 2023 and the other of the same topic from 2024.

According to Google, here are the top 10 keyword searches for my blog in 2024:

The results for 11-20 are more of the same with a few “journey” keywords mixed in. Continue reading

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