10 Greatest Hits & What I’ve Learned From Each – Eazy Cheezy’s 1st Birthday

It’s been a year since Eazy Cheezy was established and what better way to review the last year than to show you all of my greatest successes and failures. From today until Monday, I’ll be publishing multiple posts showing you my successes and failures, while highlighting previous interviews, guest posts, favorite moments and things I’ve learned within the last year. To kick it off, lets review the top 10 posts ranked by total page views. In addition to listing the top posts, I wanted to provide a bit of a “what I’ve learned” section for each.

(10) 20 Free Music Sites You Should Know About (Oct 08) I love music and there are some great sites available. I used my favorite music sites and explored some of the best sites to combine them for this 2-series post. It started out as a post with 10 sites, but when I found so many great sites, I had to expand on the post and keep it going.

Page Views: 9,355

What I’ve Learned: The title of a post is very important. In my limited knowledge and experience, I originally titled this post “20 Free Music Sites” which translated to very little interest from readers. Once I changed the title to something a bit more interesting sounding, I retweeted it and had new found success from a previously unsuccessful post.

(9) 5 Free IP Masking Tools to Protect Your Privacy Online (Mar 09) After realizing that many of my readers from countries outside the US didn’t have access to many of the movies sites I’ve previously posted, I used this post to give them a work-around.

Page Views: 9,588

What I’ve Learned: This is one post I never expected would have as much success as it did. The most interesting part of this post came from the comments, as I had a few readers debating whether these sites encouraged illegal behavior. Posting controversial content can lead to some great debates and more interest.

(8) TOP 10 FREE MOVIE SITES: Watch Movies & TV Shows Online (Feb 09) I branched off from my most successful post, 50 Free Sites to Watch Movies & TV Online to create this post, which was my opinion of the best of sites in 10 different categories.

Page Views: 22,904

What I’ve Learned: As you’ll see mentioned in other posts below, expanding upon a successful post can bring you great success. Lists can be very successful since it’s easier for your readers to process.

(7) Free Asian Movie Sites – 10 Sites to Watch Free Asian Movies (May 09) This post was created to focus on the Asian-genre movie niche, which I personally love. I particularly enjoy Asian Horror movies, so I knew there were other Asian genre fans.

Page Views: 11,510

What I’ve Learned: Drilling down the content of a previous post (i.e. 50 Free Sites to watch Movies & TV Online) and focusing on a certain niche can make for a valuable post.

(6) 10 Free Sites to Watch Live & Streaming Sporting Events Online (Jan 09) I’ve used sites such as Justin TV quite a bit in the past and wanted to explore other similar sites to see which was best. Well, I sure found some great ones and really enjoyed this post.

Page Views: 45,581

What I’ve Learned: One interesting thing about this post is that the page views are predictable. For example, when there is a big sporting event, such as a UFC fight, the traffic pours in. On other days, the traffic for this post is minimal.

(5) 5 Free Sites to Watch Anime Online (Mar 09) When researching various movie sites, I found quite a few Anime sites. Though I am not particularly an Anime fan, I knew this was a popular niche. I really enjoyed this post. It was short, but well received.

Page Views: 46,691

What I’ve Learned: Keeping a post short can make the content even more successful, since it’s displayed in easy to read chunks, i.e. Twitter. I also realized that for this to be successful, the content has to be of high quality. I couldn’t write about any sub-par sites with such a short list.

(4) 50 Free Sites to Watch Movies & TV Online Part 2 (Sep 08) – This was the 2nd part of my 5 part series and was one of my first posts. I used this 5-series post to share some of the free movie sites I use, along with many others I would find. This started out as 20 Free Movie & TV Sites, but as time passed I kept finding more great sites to add and it eventually grew to 50 Sites.

Page Views: 52,479

What I’ve learned: 50 sites, or perhaps a 5-series post may have been a bit too much, as  the majority of visitors stopped viewing after part 3.  As I continued to get more hits, I decided to focus on improving upon the post, replacing dead links and adding a personal rating to each. I also created a few spinoffs, mainly with Free Movie Sites A to Z in June of this year, which has exploded and is already my number 2 post of all-time. Interesting enough, I have more hits on Part 3, than I have on Part 2.

(3) 50 Free Sites to Watch Movies & TV Online Part 3 (Oct 08) – This was the 3rd part of my 5 part series and was one of my earliest posts. I used this 5-series post to share some of the free movie sites I use, along with many others I would find. This started out as 20 Free Movie & TV Sites, but as time passed I kept finding more great sites to add and it eventually grew to 50 Sites.

Page Views: 720,049

What I’ve learned: 50 posts, or perhaps a 5-series post may have been a bit too much, as  the majority of visitors stopped viewing after this posting, art 3.  As I continued to get more hits, I decided to focus on improving upon the post, replacing dead links and adding a personal rating to each. I also created a few spinoffs, mainly with Free Movie Sites A to Z in June of this year, which has exploded and is already my number 2 post of all-time. Interesting enough, I have more hits on Part 3, than I have on Part 2.

(2) Free Movie Sites A to Z (Jun 09) – This post was recently published as a bit of a spinoff of my most successful post, 50 Free Sites to Watch Movies & TV Online. Having an easy to view list of Movie sites, along with short descriptions, would provide an easy to use listing for readers on one page.

Page Views – 103,022

What I’ve Learned: Not only have I learned that making improvements to older posts can bring additional success, but I’ve learned that you can expand upon your success of a posting, by writing similar posts or expanding the original. In approximately 2 months, I’ve gotten over 103,000 hits for this post alone.

(1) 50 Free Sites to Watch Movies & TV Online Part 1 (Sep 08) – Just a few posts into my young blogging experience, I decided to share some of the free movie sites I use, along with many others I would find. This started out as 20 Free Movie & TV Sites, but as time passed I kept finding more great sites to add and it eventually grew to 50 Sites.

Page Views: 520,764

What I’ve learned: 50 posts, or perhaps a 5-series post may have been a bit too much, as  the majority of visitors stopped viewing after Part 3.  As I continued to get more hits, I decided to focus on improving upon the post, replacing dead links and adding a personal rating to each. I also created a few spinoffs, mainly with Free Movie Sites A to Z in June of this year, which has exploded and is already my number 2 post of all-time.