{"id":23309,"date":"2017-10-01T14:35:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T19:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=23309"},"modified":"2019-02-26T18:43:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T23:43:38","slug":"feedspot-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2017\/10\/01\/feedspot-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re #3 On FeedSpot&#8217;s Top Heart Blogs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is completely unexpected! \u00a0I just learned that HeartValveSurgery.com ranks #3 in <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.feedspot.com\/heart_blogs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FeedSpot&#8217;s Top Heart Blogs<\/a> for 2017. What an honor!<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I was amazed to see that we ranked above 71 well-known and prestigious websites including the American Heart Association, Medical News Today, the British Heart Foundation, Google News and Drugs.com. Unbelievable!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23285\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/heart-blog-adampick-number-3-rank-feedspot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As I think you know, I never started this blog to win awards. \u00a0Nope. \u00a0Instead, I started this blog in 2006 to help educate and empower patients &#8212; including myself. \u00a0That said, it felt great to see our patient community recognized by FeedSpot!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/heart-blog-ranking.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"226\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is our second unexpected award. \u00a0As you might recall, we were named one of the &#8220;Best Cardiac &amp; Heart&#8221; websites. \u00a0So wonderful. \u00a0And, so unexpected!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/pmt-best-cardiac-2014-300px.png\" width=\"355\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everybody in our community &#8212; the patients, caregivers, friends, doctors, nurses, admins, research groups, philanthropies, educational groups and medical device manufacturers &#8211; for your extraordinary support of this blog, this website, and, most importantly, each other!!<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to FeedSpot (and that means you Anuj Agarwal!) for letting me know about this wonderful surprise!<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adams-updates"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}