Shameless Pile of Stuff's 1st Birthday Post!

It is the first birthday of Shameless Pile of Stuff! Yay!

It has been already an year since I started this small site. Big virtual cake for all the visitors!

The blog is currently mainly focused on movies, but I haven't abandoned other topics. There are so few book reviews mainly because I have been lazy writing about them. I just found that the work flow of writing about movies was easier.

Let's see some statistics:

Total 202 blog posts, 183 movie reviews, 11 book reviews, 1 series review, 1 gadget review and 6 other posts.

Shameless Pile of Stuff topics

Since I started using Google Analytics in July 2014 Shameless Pile of Stuff has attracted 2954 unique visitors from 112 countries with 5560 page views. The 5 top visitor countries are United States, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom and Canada. The Blogger statistics show over 16000 page views, but I get a lot of robot and spam traffic from Russia and Turkey. Currently I get about 450 unique visitors per month with slowly rising trend. Still waiting for the big break! I also participated in four blogathon events which gave nice weekly boosts in November 2014 and March 2015.

Shameless Pile of Stuff weekly unique visitors July 2014 - April 2015

In social media I haven't been very active although I have accounts in Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ShamelessPileofStuff and Twitter https://twitter.com/shamelesspile.

According to Blogger and Google Analytics the posts about peplum movies, historical movies and cult movies have been reasonably popular. Also during holidays the Christmas themed movies proved to be popular. The book reviews are moderately popular. On the other hand the posts about blockbuster films and films with well known Hollywood stars get very few views. Probably because everyone else on the millions of web sites are writing about them!

So what have been the most popular posts?

According to Blogger statistics (that is a bit untrustworthy because of the spam traffic) the five most popular posts have been:

1. Hello Kitty: Apple Forest and Parallel Town

2. Russia in Classic Film Blogathon Special: Dersu Uzala

3. Fairy Tale Blogathon Special: Prinsessa Ruusunen

4. British Empire In Film Blogathon: Khartoum

5. Pre-Code Blogathon Special: Little Caesar

Google Analytics does not give very much information about the search words people have used to find Shameless Pile of Stuff (most of the key words are just listed as "not provided"). Here are some of the weirdest key words people have used:

500 mph storm annoying son   [Yes, he was annoying]

download film semi gladiator  [Semi gladiator? Maybe a part-time job?]

gladiator floggings dvd  [I don't want to know]

vitruvius that idea is just the worst  [A quote from "Lego the Movie"]

max von sydow in greatest story went crazy   [Really? That's an interesting bit of movie trivia!]

what is the name of the movie that has santa claus and the devil in it?  [Actually there is such movie: Santa Claus (1959)]