Joel Schofer's Career Planning Blog

2019 Annual Blog Update

Posted on January 1, 2019

At the beginning of every year I give a general update on how the blog is doing. Enjoy!

 

Profit

As during previous years, profit was negative $99. I make no money on this, and it costs me $99/year.

 

Blog Traffic

Here’s a graph of blog traffic since the blog was started in mid-2015:

The light blue is page views and the dark blue is visitors:

• 2015 – 3,705 visitors viewed 10,870 pages with 66 posts published
• 2016 – 18,373 visitors viewed 43,673 pages with 133 posts published
• 2017 – 32,569 visitors viewed 88,263 pages with 194 posts published
• 2018 – 56,674 visitors viewed 151,044 pages with 212 posts published

 

10 Most Popular Blog Posts and Pages in 2018

Here are the 10 most popular pages and posts in 2018, excluding promotion board results (which always get high traffic):

1. POM20 Navy Medicine Billet Reduction – 4,609 views
2. Joel Schofer’s Promo Prep – 4,453 views
3. Useful Documents – 2,600 views
4. LCDR Fitreps – Language for Writing Your Block 41 – 2,425 views of this post from 2016
5. Joel Schofer’s Fitrep Prep – 2,413 views
6. CV, Military Bio, and Letter of Intent Templates – 2,158 views of this post from 2017
7. Useful Links – 1,917 views
8. What are AQDs and How Do You Get Them? – 1,555 views of this post from 2016
9. Getting Retirement Credit for HPSP in the Reserves – 1,501 views
10. Potential Problems if You’re Licensed to Practice Medicine in Nebraska – 1,408 views

 

5 Most Popular Videos of 2018

1. Basic Anatomy of a Fitrep – 647 views
2. FY20 Promotion Boards – What are They Looking At and How Can You Get Ready – 533 views
3. Fitreps in 18 Minutes – 448 views
4. How to Read Your Performance Summary Report (PSR) – 434 views
5. The Quick and Dirty on Updating Your Record – 180 views

 

Thanks for all of your support. Everywhere I go people thank me for the blog, so I know a lot of you are benefiting from it. Because of that, I’ll keep doing it for as long as I can.