2021: How Our Year Went, Favourite Posts and Some Goals For 2022

2021: How Our Year Went, Favourite Posts and Some Goals For 2022 | a wrap up

Hi Everyone!

Today we wanted to share some thoughts on how our blogging year went in 2021 and some goals for 2022. We are now at the end of January, which is very scary, but we hope you will still enjoy this slightly belated wrap-up.

In 2021, we published 36 posts in total. This is pretty good, we posted on average roughly every 10 days. However, there was a lot of time when we didn't post at all and our posts became increasingly just the monthly fact file. Many of you enjoyed the fact file, and for the most part, we enjoyed writing it but it became a bit of a chore by the end, hence the change we have made over to top tips. We think it would be nice to change our monthly post every year, and we will of course involve you in that just as we did this year.

Our best posting months were by far August and September, which is understandable because we were on holiday for August and could schedule a lot of posts for September! Something we want to work on for the rest of 2022 is posting more evenly throughout the year. It is hard because we are all still at school and that has to be a priority but we haven't been the best at getting on with writing posts! We didn't post in June, but that's exam season so that probably explains that!

We decided to have each editor share their favourite post to write!

ZB:

I loved writing my house plant series towards the end of the year. House plants have become a bit of a thing for me and I can't wait to share many updates and fun house plant-related posts! You can read all my houseplant posts by clicking here!

EBP:

I really enjoyed writing the climate change post because I had to do some background research and I found it very interesting. I also enjoyed writing the Amazon Rainforest series.

FP:

This year I have loved helping out with writing the monthly fact files because I have been able to find out about a lot more different species I didn't know about before. You can see all of our fact files from the whole year by clicking here.

Our statistics were stable, with our dedicated group of followers! Thank you so much for all of your support! The most viewed post was EBP's post on the IUCN, probably because we kept linking it whenever we mentioned the IUCN!

As for 2022, we want to definitely post more. It's something a lot of bloggers say, and something we've said before, but I think we're all feeling a bit of motivation to write new posts, especially with the arrival of our new editor MK!

I personally also would love to find other nature bloggers. I have done this with another blog I have and it's really helped me get more views and comments! I want to make 2022 a positive year for our blog, hopefully creating a more active space.

We will also continue running our Twitter, as another step to raise awareness about our blog!

I think we can all agree that the last two years have been crazy and that's impacted our blog too. After all, we could write more because we were at home too and homeschooling. There is a clear spike in April when the UK was in lockdown, and August, September and October were also good months as a result of the summer holidays and a half term.

Overall, we had a good year in our blog but we definitely need to make an effort to make 2022 better! As always, if you have any post ideas or just want to chat with us, you can do so in the comments or via email. You can learn more here.

Thank you so much for being here and we'll be back soon!

Green World Blog Team 💚

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Anonymous29/01/2022, 16:50
Wow! What a year of incredible posts!
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