Monthly Report for June 2012

In June, traffic here at Politics Plus started to improve, being up in all major categories, except hits are down slightly.  However, we are still well short of where we once were.

Not viewed traffic is people who read our blog without coming here, using RSS Readers, such as Feed Demon, and Aggregation sites, such as Google Reader and MyWeb.

Here are our 2011 stats.

And here are our 2012 stats so you can compare them.

Here is our most recent ClustrMap, last updated on July 1.  Note that our map reset on February 28.  The largest circles represent over 1,000 visits. The tiniest represent one to ten.

Our average durations were well up.

Number of visits: 32,528 – Average: 339 s	Number of visits	Percent
0s-30s	25,365	77.9 %
30s-2mn	1,214	3.7 %
2mn-5mn	858	2.6 %
5mn-15mn	1,331	4 %
15mn-30mn	1,092	3.3 %
30mn-1h	1,644	5 %
1h+	1,024	3.1 %

That’s expected.  There has been more here to see.

Here are our top five articles for May.

E.P.A. Moves to Curtail Greenhouse Gas Emissions 10/01/2009  16,653 views

Republican ‘Expert’ Embarrassed on Voter Fraud      6/05/2012   4,351  views

Republican Economic Sabotage                                      6/12/2012    1,562   views

Proof That Alan Grayson Was Right                                6/18/2012       986    views

Republican Economy Prevails                                          6/19/2012       670    views

That’s much weaker than I would like.

Search engine referrals were down.

20 different referring search engines	Pages	Percent	Hits	Percent
Google	4439	60.7 %	8,250	70.5 %
Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark)	2349	32.1 %	2,769	23.6 %
Yahoo!	151	2 %	190	1.6 %
Microsoft Bing	148	2 %	210	1.7 %
Digg (Social Bookmark)	83	1.1 %	86	0.7 %
AOL	43	0.5 %	44	0.3 %
Unknown search engines	34	0.4 %	37	0.3 %
Google (Images)	19	0.2 %	53	0.4 %
Ask	10	0.1 %	10	0 %
Microsoft Windows Live	10	0.1 %	15	0.1 %
Microsoft MSN Search	7	0 %	7	0 %
Dogpile	3	0 %	4	0 %
MyWebSearch	2	0 %	2	0 %
Netscape	2	0 %	2	0 %
Earth Link	1	0 %	1	0 %
Searchalot	1	0 %	1	0 %
My Search	1	0 %	1	0 %
Excite	1	0 %	1	0 %
Yandex	1	0 %	9	0 %
Mamma			1	0 %

Stumbleupon continues to disappoint, since they changed their format.

Our top five non-blog referrers are:

http://www.care2.com/      2,745

http://www.reddit.com/        833

http://jabberwonk.com/        739

http://www.tumblr.com         251

http://www.facebook.com/    154

Care2 is up, but everything else is down.

Our top 15 blog/news referrers are:

http://crooksandliars.com/

http://synapticstew.com/

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

http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/

http://frieddogleg.blogspot.com/

http://www.roseanneworld.com/

http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/

http://reconstitution.us/rcnew/

http://themoderatevoice.com/

http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

http://jackjodell53.wordpress.com/

http://republic-of-gilead.blogspot.com/

http://progressiveerupts.blogspot.com/

http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/

Here’s some linkey-love in return  The best ways you can spread the message to others is to use the share button at the bottom of each article to list our articles on the the networking sites where you belong. Quote PP articles on your own blogs also helps.  The operative commandment here is “thou shalt steal.”  We’re on the same side here, and I encourage it.  Even if you want to repost a whole article, that’s OK.  Just link back, please.  Also, feel free to swipe my graphics in the articles.  If they are labeled with our Politics Plus URL, they are my work.

Here are the top fifteen commenters for June.  I  copied them off in time. The widget is in the right column.  I don’t count, as I’m the resident big mouth, and I try to reply to every comment, except replies directed at someone else.  Those who leave their URLs in their comments, also get linkey-love here.

Lynn Squance (128)

Patty (71)

SoINeedAName (66)

Rixar13 (48)

Phyllis (46)

Jerry Critter (38)

Edith Belcher (25)

mamabear (21)

Angelica (19)

Steve (14)

Jolly Roger (12)

John Dasef (8)

Lisa G. (8)

Marva (7)

Infidel753 (5)

We have 566,589 links on other websites.

Our Technorati.rating is up to 426, high on the B list.  I have no idea why.  Despite over half a million links, Technorati only recognizes links on sites that have registered at Technorati.  Because we had so much traffic on Buzzflash.net, a registered site, we used to be an A list blog.  Buzzflash.net is gone and with the slowdown, we’re back to B list.  If Care2 were to register with Technorati, we’d be in fat city.

We have 3,505 articles and 32,7472 comments, as of midnight 7/1.

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Your participation remains a major part of what makes this blog worth reading, not to mention worth writing.  Thank you all for all you do, here and elsewhere, to support progressive solutions.  Together we will make a difference.

Although we have improved, we are still sitting at under half the traffic we had a year ago.  That’s only partially because I’m posting a little less than I did then to take better care of myself.  I believe that I’m still writing good articles that are worth reading.  The big reason we’re down is that many of the tools I use to use to publicize our articles are no longer available. That makes your help that much more important.  There lots of right-wing insanity for us to overcome.