Monthly Report for July 2010

Our fifth full month since we moved from Blogger was excellent.  While we did not soar, as we did in June because of one article that went viral, we continued our previous pattern of steady growth.

Here are our basic stats:

Note that taking June out, we have a curve with an increasing slope, a pattern of accelerating growth.

Here is our most recent Clustrmap.

Our durations are up a bit:

Number of visits: 17059 – Average: 240 s	Number of visits	Percent
0s-30s	13762	80.6 %
30s-2mn	702	4.1 %
2mn-5mn	593	3.4 %
5mn-15mn	739	4.3 %
15mn-30mn	374	2.1 %
30mn-1h	481	2.8 %
1h+	408	2.3 %

That’s expected, with fewer hit and run visits.

Search engine responses still good.

12 different referring search engines	Pages	Percent	Hits	Percent
Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark)	2158	75 %	2875	74.7 %
Google	641	22.2 %	889	23.1 %
Yahoo!	34	1.1 %	34	0.8 %
Windows Live	11	0.3 %	16	0.4 %
Unknown search engines	8	0.2 %	8	0.2 %
AOL	8	0.2 %	8	0.2 %
Bing	6	0.2 %	6	0.1 %
Google (Images)	4	0.1 %	4	0.1 %
Dogpile	2	0 %	2	0 %
Ask	1	0 %	1	0 %
ix quick	1	0 %	1	0 %
Yandex	1	0 %	1	0 %

Our top 15 referrers (blogs) are:

http://www.reddit.com/

http://crooksandliars.com/

http://jbm479.blogspot.com/

http://www.timsscaredstiff.com/

http://carolinaparrothead.blogspot.com/

http://jackjodell.blogspot.com/

http://whohijackedourcountry.blogspot.com/

http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/

http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/

http://themanwhowalksalonewalksfaster.blogspot.com/

http://www.jimhightower.com/node/7208

http://disaffectedanditfeelssogood.blogspot.com/

http://thebeekeepersapprentice.com/

http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/

http://reconstitution.us/rcnew/

http://truthshallrule.blogspot.com/

http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/

While Reddit is not a blog, I included an extra link for them as they are our overall top referrer.  There are two more extra links because the last three blogs are tied at seven referrals each.  Enjoy the linkey-love

One of the best ways you can publicize Politics Plus is to use the share button at the bottom of each post to list our articles on the the sites where you belong.

Technorati increased our Technorati Authority from 141 to 494.  That means we have 494 links in the last six months from blogs that are registered with and recognized by Technorati.  Thus we are officially a High Authority blog and are very high on the B-list.  we need six more to reach 500 and the A-list.  If we make it, we’ll be in the same category as giants like Daily Kos and Huffington Post.  Since so many blogs have never registered with them, and since it takes up to a year after that to be recognized, we have more blog links than that.  But keep using our material.  The motto here is Thou shalt steal.  Even if you want to embed an occasional whole article, that’s OK.  I just ask that you include a link to the original  here.  It’s not an ego thing.  The more recognition we get, the more effect we can have toward ending the right-wing insanity.

We have 45,301 links on other websites, up from 26,564 last month.

We have 1,235 posts and 8,870 comments, as of midnight 8/1.

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.

I’m very happy with our progress, and thank you for it.  This success belongs to all of us.