{"id":24989,"date":"2018-08-09T08:01:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T13:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=24989"},"modified":"2019-02-26T18:27:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T23:27:13","slug":"feedspot-ranking-hvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2018\/08\/09\/feedspot-ranking-hvs\/","title":{"rendered":"We Rise To #2 On Feedspot&#8217;s 2018 Top Heart Blogs &#038; Websites Rankings!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unexpected! \u00a0We rise!<\/p>\n<p>I just learned that HeartValveSurgery.com ranks #2 in <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.feedspot.com\/heart_blogs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FeedSpot&#8217;s 2018 Top Heart Blogs &amp; Websites<\/a>. \u00a0Compared to 2017, our ranking increased from the #3 position. \u00a0What an honor!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24981\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/Feedspot-Award-2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I&#8217;m amazed to see that we ranked above 73 well-known and prestigious websites including the American Heart Association, Medical News Today, Heart Disease Prevention, Penn Medicine and the British Journal of Cardiology. \u00a0Again, what an honor!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28070\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/top-surgery-blog-heartvalvesurgery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"711\" height=\"735\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As I think you know, I never started this blog to win awards. \u00a0Nope. \u00a0I 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>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.feedspot.com\/heart_blogs\/\">FeedSpot<\/a> for 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-24989","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\/24989","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=24989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24989\/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=24989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}