Our third full month since we moved from Blogger was excellent. Politics Plus took off in May.
Here are our basic stats:
Note that in May we exceeded our performance in March and April combined. I gav up on Facebook and started publicizing the site on Reddit, Stumbleupon, and Twitter. If you use these sites, please share our articles that you consider worthy there, and elsewhere. The ‘share’ button at the bottom of each article makes it easy. The only thing that disappointed me about May is that our biggest response came from the articles about an Arab American winning Miss USA. Isn’t it sad that a bikini draws more interest than the fate of our nation?
Here is our most recent Clustrmap.
We have people coming here from all over the world.
Our durations are down a bit:
Number of visits: 12619 – Average: 216 s
Number of visits
Percent
0s-30s
10142
80.3 %
30s-2mn
676
5.3 %
2mn-5mn
484
3.8 %
5mn-15mn
521
4.1 %
15mn-30mn
233
1.8 %
30mn-1h
252
1.9 %
1h+
311
2.4 %
That’s expected, with so many more visits.
Search engine responses are taking off.
Links from an Internet Search Engine
Pages Hits
– Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark)
2543
3406
646
653
– Yahoo!
54
60
– Google (Images)
14
14
– Sphere (Blog)
8
8
– Unknown search engines
6
6
– Ask
4
4
– Bing
2
2
– AOL
2
2
– Windows Live
2
2
– Earth Link
1
1
– Dogpile
1
1
– Baidu
1
1
– Yandex
1
1
Our top 15 referrers (blogs) are:
http://scaredstiff-tim.blogspot.com/
http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/
http://america-weeps.blogspot.com/
http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/
http://whohijackedourcountry.blogspot.com/
http://carolinaparrothead.blogspot.com/
http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://jackjodell.blogspot.com/
http://themanwhowalksalonewalksfaster.blogspot.com/
http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/
http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://reconstitution.us/rcnew/
We had other referrers (like Reddit) from which we had a greater response, but I decided to include blogs only, because this stat is about saying thanks and returning some linkage.
We have 6,567 links on other websites, up from 3,867 last month.
We have 1,011 posts and 7,043 comments.
If you are tired of our funky avatars and would like your own avatar, go to Gravatar. Sign up using the email address you use to post comments here and upload the image you want to use. Whenever you comment under that email address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that will be your avatar.
Frankly, I’m stunned by the speed of the takeoff, and thankful.
Finally, I’d like to remind you why I use the term ‘we’ when I am the only author. It is your participation in the comments that makes this blog more attractive that I could on my own. It is you referring to this blog in your articles that bring people that stay. Politics Plus has never been about just me. It’s about us all. Thank you for your support.
P.S. See today’s Open Thread to sign up for Lefty Bloggers and Friends fantasy football league. 😀
18 Responses to “Monthly Report for May 2010”
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Congrats..Nice job and you deserve it. I hope your future far eclipse even this great gain.
In a year from now you’ll look back and say WOW.
Keep writing…
Tim
Thanks Tim. I hope you’re a prophet. 🙂
Congrats on your stats! You are the star here though, we lazy asses just click and read. 🙂
Lisa, don’t I remember posting a recent article entitled, “Lisa G Has a Big Mouth ;-)”?
Thanks.
Congrats, TC – that’s a serious accomplishment, and well deserved, too.
Thanks Candace. Your ‘shares’ had a lot to do with it.
Congrats!. A couple of questions. I used to post at Digg but got tired of having to manually do the cross post each day. Do Stumbleupon and Reddit require that or do they pick up the feed automatically? WordPress automatically publishes my post to FB and Twitter for me. IT is way cool! Glad to see how well you are doing!
Thanks Sherry. I think both require manal posting. I prefer to put them up manually, because it gives me more control. I don’t use Digg, because they want all content to be virtially original, while I use large citations.
TC
okay now get to work….;) Check out some links I put up. Their not the ones on Olberman but they are direct from Reich. The same thing only different.
Tim, I had already read Reich’s take on the gulf at his site.
This is great! Keep up the good work, TomCat!
Thanks Lisa, and welcome. Are you related to Lisa G. 😉
Rock on Tom! I really dig the world map with all the dots showing the places where people live who have found your blog. Reminds me of the world map I had as a kid and how I would stick a pin at the place I heard a radio station on my shortwave.
Thanks, Beach. That’s a Clustrmap. On my right side bar, click the link to the map, and you can get one for your site. It’s free.
I get more traffic from some right wing asshat linking to me than from any other source. Lately I haven’t had time to write anything that would sufficiently piss them off. I may have to remedy that; perhaps a series on Caribou Barbie is in order 🙂
LOL, JR! The righties don’t seem to like it here. I don’t insult them. I treat them with respect and kindless but refute everything they say until they blow up and start with the name calling. They always have so far. Then I warn them, they behave even worse, and I ban them.
Nice work indeed!
Thanks Hugh!