Blog Performance November 2010

The graphic shows blog traffic over the year ending November 2010. Yellow visits, yellow plus red page views.

The decline in traffic after the big spike in August did stop in November. That was a relief.

December traffic is always down, so it will be interesting to compare this year against twelve months before.  

The ten most popular posts over November were:

• Wednesday Forum: Leveraging Newcastle's inclusion in the Lonely Planet global top ten cities 215 page views
• Wednesday Forum: the NBN and New England 204 page views
• Wednesday Forum: Overcoming division 104 page views
• The Poetry of Judith Wright - Bora Ring 93 page views
• Results from Wednesday's forum on overcoming division 69 page views
• New England Story - Stockton Beach 47 page views
• Wednesday Forum: improving public transport 43 page views
• Belshaw's World - not such a lonely planet in a cafe full of cobbers 39 page views
• Round the New England blogging traps 20 - potpourri 37 page views
• The Poetry of Judith Wright - South of My Days 32 page views

Interesting that the Wednesday Forums are scoring in the top group. These are always a bit of a hit and miss affair in terms of responses.

Excluding search engine traffic, the most referrals came from:

• http://belshaw.blogspot.com/ 23 visitors
• Facebook 18 visitors
• http://bayjournal.com.au/joomla/bayjournal/environment/2632-point-of-view-is-moreton-bay-getting-any-better.html 16 visitors. I couldn't work out why I was getting visits here until I found a link in comments to this post: Death of New England Writer Eric Rolls (1923-2007)
• http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/australian-poem-2008-series-10-peter-skrzynecki-summer-in-the-country-2005/ 8 visitors
• http://regionallivingaustralia.blogspot.com/ 4 visitors

I was a bit surprised this time at the absence of Twitter feeds.

The most popular key words were:

• old trams newcastle 10
• mckechnie 3
• photos historic inverell 3
• south of my days analysis 3
• south of my days judith wright 3
• why should new england become its own state of australia 3
• aboriginal map queensland 2
• bora ring by judith wright 2
• charles howard hinton 2
• counting in sevens poem judith wright 2