{"id":701,"date":"2010-03-01T04:38:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T12:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=701"},"modified":"2010-03-01T04:38:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T12:38:17","slug":"monthly-report-312010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/01\/monthly-report-312010\/","title":{"rendered":"Monthly Report &ndash; 3\/1\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Politics Plus returned to the Internet on September 5, 2009 as a brand new blog.&#160; Our first six months show an excellent&#160; increase in activity after a great start..&#160; As of Midnight we have had 39,836 visitors.&#160; Last month, we had 6,224 visitors, down 2,186 from January, a decrease of 26.0%.&#160; We also have had of 48,139 page views.&#160; Last month we had 7,570 page views, down 2,564 from January, a decrease of&#160; 23.3%.&#160; This averages to 222\/270 visits\/views per day, down 49\/57 from January.&#160; I\u2019m a bit disappointed.&#160; In addition to being a shorter month, the decrease in traffic is largely because of me.&#160; My month was so busy that I lacked the time to reply to comments and return visits.&#160; I always did, but not in a timely manner.&#160; I\u2019ll do better.&#160; Here\u2019s a graph of February visits and views.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/vvmJ310.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; width: 550px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" title=\"vvmJ310\" border=\"0\" alt=\"vvmJ310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/vvmJ310_thumb.jpg\" width=\"684\" height=\"334\" \/><\/font><\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here\u2019s a graph of visits and views since we reopened. at the old site.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/vvyJ310.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; width: 550px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" title=\"vvyJ310\" border=\"0\" alt=\"vvyJ310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/vvyJ310_thumb.jpg\" width=\"684\" height=\"334\" \/><\/font><\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here\u2019s a graph of how long people are staying while they\u2019re here.&#160; It covers only the last five hundred visitors.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/vl310.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" title=\"vl310\" border=\"0\" alt=\"vl310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/vl310_thumb.jpg\" width=\"534\" height=\"434\" \/><\/font><\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And here is our most recent ClustrMap, last updated 2\/20, showing our readers from all over the world:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/clustrmap02202010.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; width: 550px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" title=\"clustrmap02202010\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clustrmap02202010\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/clustrmap02202010_thumb.jpg\" width=\"684\" height=\"259\" \/><\/font><\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Our new Clustrmap starts from scratch.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Our 34,000th through 39,000th visitors, respectively, were Jolly Roger, Ivan, Tom Harper, Bee, Teeluck and Sky Girl.&#160; You\u2019ll find a special section in our sidebar honoring them and linking to their blogs. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Our Technorati authority is zero.&#160; We\u2019re brand new.&#160; After six months they never did update us at blogger.&#160; Maybe they will here.&#160; To verify that we exist Technorati needs a verification code in a blog post, so here it is.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">BR7RPBSKA8BS<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I expect a huge hit in the stats department in March, because we moved.&#160; We were a solid blog.&#160; Now were just another new blog.&#160; Google hasn\u2019t even crawled us yet, so our articles don\u2019t show up in search engines.&#160; This is all OK.&#160; Just as we built the second reincarnation of Politics Plus, so we shall build the third.&#160; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">So please keep linking the articles you like here to your blogs, facebook pages, stumble upon pages, etc.&#160; When you see material you like here, the operative commandment is: \u201cThou shalt steal!!\u201d&#160; Please do link back though.&#160; Hat-tips are much appreciated. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I use the terms \u201cwe\u201d and \u201cour\u201d while referring to Politics Plus. 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