Monthly Report for December 2010

Our tenth full month since we moved from Blogger was a major from from recent months. I anticipated it, because December always combines a drop off from holiday activities with a drop of from scarcity of news.  So I’m not displeased with how we did.

Here are our basic stats:

Here is our most recent Clustrmap, last updated on November 21.

Our durations were well up from 153 seconds last month:

Number of visits: 21686 – Average: 247 s	Number of visits	Percent
0s-30s	17437	80.4 %
30s-2mn	954	4.3 %
2mn-5mn	738	3.4 %
5mn-15mn	862	3.9 %
15mn-30mn	515	2.3 %
30mn-1h	649	2.9 %
1h+	531	2.4 %

That’s expected, because we had fewer visitors.

Search engine referrals fell.

15 different referring search engines	Pages	Percent	Hits	Percent
Google	2258	77.4 %	3679	77.8 %
Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark)	305	10.4 %	604	12.7 %
MSN Search	157	5.3 %	157	3.3 %
Yahoo!	61	2 %	79	1.6 %
Bing	57	1.9 %	92	1.9 %
Google (Images)	39	1.3 %	57	1.2 %
Unknown search engines	15	0.5 %	15	0.3 %
AOL	12	0.4 %	13	0.2 %
Windows Live	4	0.1 %	17	0.3 %
Ask	3	0.1 %	3	0 %
Dogpile	3	0.1 %	3	0 %
Scroogle	2	0 %	2	0 %
Earth Link	1	0 %	1	0 %
MyWebSearch			2	0 %
Yandex			3	0 %

Our top three non-blog referrers are:

http://buzzflash.net/ 3000+

http://www.reddit.com/ 2600+

http://www.jabberwonk.com/ 650+

Our top 15 referrer blogs are:

http://america-weeps.blogspot.com/

http://thebeekeepersapprentice.com/

http://themanwhowalksalonewalksfaster.blogspot.com/

http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/

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

http://sozadee.blogspot.com/

http://www.jackjodell.blogspot.com/

http://madmikesamerica.com/

http://whohijackedourcountry.blogspot.com/

http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/

http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/

http://carolinaparrothead.blogspot.com/

http://www.timsscaredstiff.com/

http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/

http://anaverageamericanpatriot.blogspot.com/

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/

There’s one extra because two were tied.

There’s some linkey-love in return  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, and to quote PP articles on your own blogs.  The operative commandment here is “thou shalt steal.”  We’re on the same side here, so I won’t mind.  Even if you want to repost a whole article, that’s OK.  Just link back, please.

Technorati was strange last month.  Our global authority and rank is higher than ever before, but we took decreased in authority and rank in all three topical areas.  How can that be?  I have absolutely no idea.

• Global 547 (rank 2,072)
• US politics 533 (rank 257)
• Politics 487 (rank 438)
• World 451 (rank 280)

We have 278,133 links on other websites, down from 303,887 last month.

We have 1,792 posts and 13,516 comments, as of midnight 1/1.

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Despite the slow month, this year has been a hell of a ride.  We began the hear as a C-list Blogger blog and ended as an A-list blog on our own site.  Because of the generosity of three of you, our PayPal account has enough money to pay this year’s hosting fees and more.  If someone had told me a year ago that all this would have happened, I would not have believed them.  Thank you very much.  Your participation inspires me to do the best I can and your comments inspire new readers to come back.  This is your blog too.  Onward to a new year of ending right wing insanity!