I actually started my first blog almost 4 years ago on Blogger.com, but made the switch to WordPress in March of 2006. That was a major turning point, and one of the best blogging decisions I’ve made…

We’re almost 3 weeks into the New Year and what with year-end paperwork and new year goals, I almost forgot to report in with the final stats for 2007! The year ended with the best month to date, totalling more than 14,000 unique visitors…

Traffic was down slightly during November, but only by less than 200 unique visitors from the October stats. I’m not overly concerned. But I’m still interested in digging into the stats for November to see what I might find…

The first thing to note about ClickNewz Stats this month is the recent PageRank update. I’m not sure if its settled yet or not, but ClickNewz has dropped from a PR5 to a PR4 according to the Google Toolbar. No major worries from me, as I consider it vanity green, and the statistics for ClickNewz continue to rise steadily. Last month saw a 12% increase in unique vistors, and a 31% increase in overall visits…

As you can see in the graph to the right, traffic to ClickNewz.com continues to rise steadily. Some of the things that I watch for in my stats include overall growth patterns, traffic sources, changes in inbound links, popularity of topics/posts, the success of specific keyword phrases, etc…

Traffic was down slightly for the month of June, which is normal this time of year. June and July are generally the slowest months of the year for Internet Marketing and Online Business related niches. Still, the stats are good for ClickNewz - and showing more than double the unique visitors than they were 6 months ago…

While March and April showed dramatic increases in traffic to the ClickNewz blog, May stats simply held steady with only a slight increase in the number of unique visitors…

Over to the right side of my blog you see a little icon from FeedBurner that tells you how many readers are currently subscribed to ClickNewz. It’s completely wrong, mind you… and that’s my fault. Read on and learn from my mistakes…