Monthly Report – 3/1/2010

Politics Plus returned to the Internet on September 5, 2009 as a brand new blog.  Our first six months show an excellent  increase in activity after a great start..  As of Midnight we have had 39,836 visitors.  Last month, we had 6,224 visitors, down 2,186 from January, a decrease of 26.0%.  We also have had of 48,139 page views.  Last month we had 7,570 page views, down 2,564 from January, a decrease of  23.3%.  This averages to 222/270 visits/views per day, down 49/57 from January.  I’m a bit disappointed.  In addition to being a shorter month, the decrease in traffic is largely because of me.  My month was so busy that I lacked the time to reply to comments and return visits.  I always did, but not in a timely manner.  I’ll do better.  Here’s a graph of February visits and views.

Here’s a graph of visits and views since we reopened. at the old site.

Here’s a graph of how long people are staying while they’re here.  It covers only the last five hundred visitors.

And here is our most recent ClustrMap, last updated 2/20, showing our readers from all over the world:

Our new Clustrmap starts from scratch.

Our 34,000th through 39,000th visitors, respectively, were Jolly Roger, Ivan, Tom Harper, Bee, Teeluck and Sky Girl.  You’ll find a special section in our sidebar honoring them and linking to their blogs.

Our Technorati authority is zero.  We’re brand new.  After six months they never did update us at blogger.  Maybe they will here.  To verify that we exist Technorati needs a verification code in a blog post, so here it is.

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I expect a huge hit in the stats department in March, because we moved.  We were a solid blog.  Now were just another new blog.  Google hasn’t even crawled us yet, so our articles don’t show up in search engines.  This is all OK.  Just as we built the second reincarnation of Politics Plus, so we shall build the third. 

So please keep linking the articles you like here to your blogs, facebook pages, stumble upon pages, etc.  When you see material you like here, the operative commandment is: “Thou shalt steal!!”  Please do link back though.  Hat-tips are much appreciated.

I use the terms “we” and “our” while referring to Politics Plus. Since this is a one-person blog.  I assure you, I’m not doing so in the royal sense.  The we in Politics Plus includes all of you. Without your presence and comments, this blog would be pointless.  Newcomers repeatedly praise the quality of the comments here.  Whatever success this blog does and will enjoy is because of you, so please congratulate yourself.