Top 5 Most-Viewed Press Releases of RateTea and This Blog

I occasionally issue press releases related to RateTea and/or this tea blog, using prlog.org, a free service that is minimal but easy to use and rather powerful. Sometimes, I find it almost comical which of these releases get the most views. Here are the top 5 press releases of all time, by views:

• Microwave Oven Not An Ideal Way To Heat Water For Tea - I issued this press release shortly after publishing the new article on this topic on RateTea. It seems so strange to me that this release got the largest number of views, as it seems the least significant of all of the press releases I've ever issued.


• Pineapple Sage (Salvia elegans) Overwinters in Newark, Delaware - This post announces an unusual overwintering of a plant that is supposedly not hardy anywhere near the mid-Atlantic climate zone of the US.


• New Website to Rate and Review Teas: RateTea.net - This is the original press release, issued when RateTea.net was first launched. It makes sense that this release got a lot of views, because it was breaking news and I put energy into sending the release out widely.


• Percentile Rankings for the Best Teas: Loose-Leaf & Tea Bags - This press release announces a small but significant change to RateTea, when we added percentile ratings to the page for teas which had enough ratings to calculate one.


• Recent Changes to RateTea.net: Logo, Header, Homepage, and Rating Descriptors - Another press release announcing major changes and the major redesigns to this site, carried out in the past year.

What's the lesson? Life is a bit random perhaps?