Graywolf’s SEO Blog the Year in Review 2006

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Since it’s the last week in the year I thought I’d share some stats from this blog with.

Now lets take a look at some numbers here’s a shot of the number of visitors:

That dip in March is do to a data loss, not a traffic drop, so I’d estimate the traffic falls pretty much right in between February and April. Looking at the Alexa data we see a massively spikey graph. I started the year at around 40,000 and ended at about 7,000.

I’m 99.9% sure that I’m not really that popular and it’s the webmaster effect. Next up are my feed burner stats. Currently it fluctuates between 1,100 and 1,700. The peaks come when I post multiple times per day or have 5 or 6 posts strung together in a row. The drops come when I take a few days to actually rest or do some real work

Next up is a look at my referrers, with the obvious spammers filtered out. While Google is clearly sending me the majority of the traffic, all of the other sources combined is hardly something to ignore.

Google 248739
Yahoo! 16252
MSN 13660
digg.com 11388
www.bloglines.com 6025
www.digg.com 5722
www.stumbleupon.com 4795
www.threadwatch.org 4721
www.shoemoney.com 3805
www.seomoz.org 3319
AOL 2040
del.icio.us 2024
reddit.com 1957
Netscape 1816
www.linkbuildingblog.com 1765
www.stuntdubl.com 1671
performancing.com 1429
www.netvibes.com 1203
www.searchenginejournal.com 1161
seoblackhat.com 1134
www.problogger.net 949
www.avivadirectory.com 920
search.comcast.net 916
www.webmaster-headquarters.com 909
www.jimboykin.com 873
www.wickedfire.com 831
forums.digitalpoint.com 812
www.seobook.com 780
Ask 740
www.megite.com 732
myrwthemes.com 704
search.live.com 643
www.mattcutts.com 588
www.webguerrilla.com 571
site.www.adbrite.com 559
www.technorati.com 490
Dogpile 479
www.webproworld.com 474
search.blogger.com 463
www.copyblogger.com 459
home.bellsouth.net 384

If you’re looking for an idea of what people are looking at and linking to visit my Top Posts page.
In all honesty there are way more visitors, and subscribers here than I ever really thought possible, and I have to say a big thank you to everyone who’s subscribed, commented, reads, or visits regularly.

6 Responses to “Graywolf’s SEO Blog the Year in Review 2006”

1. Chris Winfield Says:
   December 27th, 2006 at 11:25 pm

   Wow - I was really wondering what the hell happened in March until I read that next line

   Great job this year Michael - your blog is firmly entrenched as a daily must read.

2. Hawaii SEO Says:
   December 28th, 2006 at 3:50 am

   I wandered in at the beginning of the V7N SEO contest via Google PPC ad. I’ve read every post since then. The quality gets better all the time. Thanks for the great info. Looking froward to 2007.

3. Rae Says:
   December 28th, 2006 at 10:20 am

   You’re one of two blogs I read *every* single day MG.

4. StrangeProgress Says:
   December 29th, 2006 at 1:57 am

   Hey nice work Michael.

   I was actually just listening to your guest appearance on SEO Rockstars, and wow what a goldmine that was! Thanks for being so candid in your discussion, I’m sure it will really help me to grow my web presence.

   Matt

5. SeoRookie Says:
   December 29th, 2006 at 1:16 pm

   I surprised how low technorati is in the list of referrers.

6. andrew wee Says:
   December 31st, 2006 at 6:43 pm

   Hi Michael,
   there’s something voyeuristic abt checking out site’s stats.

   i like.

   have a great 2007!