Random NYSkiBlog Stuff That You Might Not Care About

[Harvey]

3,000 people in Georgia that makes no sense . . . .

A lot of it is Google traffic.

I wrote several pages two summers ago designed to capture Google traffic. A few of them have really taken off. These are topics I am interested in, and (I think) relevant to NY skiers.

Some of the most successful are about snowfall:

US Annual Snowfall Map

US Average Annual Snowfall Map: Eastern US precipitation is spread evenly throughout the year. In the west, a majority of precipitation falls as snow.

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New York State Annual Snowfall Data

The climate of New York is marked by abundant snowfall.

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Vermont Annual Snowfall

More snowfall, across the state, than any other.

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Check this out, top blog pages, for views (forum excluded):

See where the traffic for the US snowfall map comes from:

It ranks first for some high volume search terms....

Vermont has a cool "featured snippet":

 

[Brownski]

What about the “alligator snapping turtles in NYS” searches? We fucking dominate the results for that one

 

[tirolski]

What about the “alligator snapping turtles in NYS” searches? We fucking dominate the results for that one

I’ve been doing my part on "F Vail” too if any AI's countin.

 

[Harvey]

 

[Harvey]

The new server and cache system is really flying.

 

[tirolski]

The new server and cache system is really flying.

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Attaboy

 

[Harvey]

Thanks to all for the response to my Plattekill piece:

Plattekill Powderdaize 2023

I moved heaven and earth to ski Plattekill and it was worth it 100%.

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Blog comments seem kind of old school, but for me they are a reward for the effort. I appreciate them, and I'm pretty confident the other writers appreciate them too.

This was an unusual piece for me. Usually when writing, even after a BIG day, it's a grind. Paragraph by paragraph, sentence by sentence. This piece was different.

I didn't even start writing until Friday night, as work was nuts. I had a big deadline Friday, made harder to hit because I skied on Wednesday. Usually if I don't start writing right after the day, it's much harder to get my thoughts down.

When I finally started, it flowed like lightning from my fingers. I basically wrote the whole thing in two hours without stopping. I had issues with the ending and the pics, but never really had something come out like that.

Thanks for listening. Like the thread title says, you might not care.

 

[Harvey]

This is our signature, in the footer, at the bottom of every page:

I was thinking I might edit it to account for our resident retired pro @raisingarizona:

 

[Harvey]

Three years ago today.

 

[Harvey]

17,000 visits to this page...

New York State Annual Snowfall Data

The climate of New York is marked by abundant snowfall.

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...from Google search in the last 12 months.

Google traffic to the page is hugely driven by snowfall in NY. Last year, it was snowing around now.