{"id":6258,"date":"2019-01-01T10:12:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T18:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/?p=6258"},"modified":"2019-12-28T08:35:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T16:35:47","slug":"blogging-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2019\/blogging-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Julian Dierkes<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mongolia Focus is in its 8th year of existence.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve continued to blog pretty steadily in 2018 with a total of 65 new posts this past year. Since July 2011, we&#8217;ve published at least one post every month for a total of over 570 posts.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some highlights from Google Analytics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>15,000 users read over 37,000 pages<\/li>\n<li>readers are accessing Mongolia Focus from the following countries\n<ul>\n<li>Mongolia 22%<\/li>\n<li>U.S. 20.5%<\/li>\n<li>Canada 9%<\/li>\n<li>UK 6%<\/li>\n<li>China 4%<\/li>\n<li>Australia 4%<\/li>\n<li>Germany 4%<\/li>\n<li>Japan 2%<\/li>\n<li>India 2%<\/li>\n<li>South Korea 2%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Most popular posts\n<ul>\n<li>Bulgan&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2016\/foreign-languages-mongolians\/\">How popular is Russian in Mongolia 26 Years After the Fall of the Soviet Union?<\/a>&#8221; (2016; 1,600+ readers this year)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2018\/gulen-kidnapping-turkey-aksay\/\">Turkish Attempt to Abduct Educator in Ulaanbaatar<\/a>&#8221; (1,110+)<\/li>\n<li>Byamba&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2016\/oyu-tolgoi-discovery\/\">The Story of the Discovery of Oyu Tolgoi<\/a>&#8221; (2017; 500+)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2017\/parliament-challenged\/\">Parliament Challenged<\/a>&#8221; (300+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The all-time most popular post is Bulgan&#8217;s language post with over 2,700 readers<\/li>\n<li>Overall, readership was down about 10% in 2018 which is most likely attributable to the fact that elections generate readers, in part because we&#8217;ve been very active in writing about elections, and 2018 was a non-election year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Julian Dierkes Mongolia Focus is in its 8th year of existence. We&#8217;ve continued to blog pretty steadily in 2018 with a total of 65 new posts this past year. Since July 2011, we&#8217;ve published at least one post every &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2019\/blogging-in-2018\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139,307853,2807],"tags":[983090],"class_list":["post-6258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection","category-research-on-mongolia","category-social-media","tag-julian-dierkes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6261,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6258\/revisions\/6261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}