I looked at my stats for the year 2009 on Newspapergrl and OnlinePRBook. Sometimes I’m surprised but here goes

NewspaperGrl blog

• Most of my traffic comes from Google (34%)
• The next biggest source is direct (typed in – 22%)
• One link from The Pioneer Woman’s Blog gave me 13% of my traffic for the year!!
• Twitter gave me 5% of my traffic (surprising since I invest most of my time on Twitter)

Lessons learned: a link from a big name blogger can inject a TON of traffic. I need to work on getting links from big names in my industry though. I imagine most of those readers didn’t become regulars. Twitter isn’t a great place to get traffic for my blog.

Also, I must have some high ranking reviews on Google. It shows that SEO is better as it ages because posts that I wrote 2 or 3 years ago are still sending me a lot of traffic today. I’m not very deliberate in my SEO because this is a business journal of sorts. My other blog is more business.

Most popular blog posts (most traffic) for 2009

1. Me, the Pioneer Woman, Dooce & Jason Gough
2. Drop Ship Access – Not Worth the Price (from 2007)
3. Blocked by CraigsList?! (from 2006)
4. The First Business Book to Make me Cry (linked to from Gary Vaynerchuk’s Wall on Facebook)
5. 4 Tips on Getting Followers on Twitter

Top 5 blog posts on OnlinePRBook Blog (started in July 2009)

1. 5 Killer Press Release Examples
2. Example of an SEO Press Release
3. 7 Killer Online Press Release Tips for Small Businesses
4. 102 Headline Ideas for Social Media
5. Free Press Release Sites

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