SEOmoz's 2006 Stats in Review
The author's views are entirely their own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.
Time for the year-in-review style posts. Andy's started it off with his top 10 posts and now it's our turn. All data is sourced from our Indextools install, which excludes spider visits.
First off, our most popular blog posts:
- 5 HTML Elements You Probably Never Use (but perhaps should)
Pg Views - 113,000 - How to Ruin a Web Design - The Design Curve
Pg Views - 58,000 - Interviewing Web Developers - 20 Good Questions to Ask
Pg Views - 48,000 - How to Convince a Client Their Site Doesn't Need Music
Pg Views - 38,400 - 21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic
Pg Views - 32,900 - How to Convince a Client They Don't Need a Splash Page
Pg Views - 27,310 - A List of Every Website Statistic Publicly Available
Pg Views - 24,200 - 10 Remarkably Effective Strategies for Driving Traffic
Pg Views - 23,400 - Top 100 Users Control 56% of Digg's HomePage Content
Pg Views - 21,000 - 11 Best Practices for URLs
Pg Views - 18,000
Top Referrers:
- Direct Access (feeds, bookmarks, type-in) - 720,147
- Digg.com - 180,375
- Google.com - 157,517
- StumbleUpon - 60,161
- Del.icio.us - 39,834
- Bloglines - 19.521
- Google.co.uk - 17,283
- I-mezzo.net - 13,111
- blog.searchenginewatch.com - 11,043
- reddit.com - 10,274
- Google.ca - 9,994
- search.yahoo.com - 7,868
Visits by Month:
- January - 108,067
- February - 84,673
- March - 120,701
- April - 115,477
- May - 120,701
- June - 86,696
- July - 174,848
- August - 268,952
- September - 182,760
- October - 249,511
- November - 186,484
- December - 166,112
Top Search Phrases:
- IP Lookup - 8,578
- IP Location - 8,047
- SEOmoz - 8,032
- Web 2.0 Awards - 4,927
- Web 2.0 - 3,517
- SEO Tools - 2,455
- IP to Location - 1,887
- Redzee - 1,410
- Internet Advancement - 1,359
- Page Strength - 1,335
- Google Patent - 1,233
- IP Map - 1,202
- SEO - 1,023
- Search Engine Ranking - 959
- IP Address Lookup - 951
Top Search Engines:
- Google - 231,563
- Yahoo - 8,437
- MSN - 5,169
- Alexa - 613
- AOL Search - 559
- Ask Jeeves - 456
- Dogpile - 335
- MSN Sympatico - 284
- Blueyonder - 198
- AltaVista - 179
Top Countries:
- United States - 817,282
- United Kingdom - 132,138
- Canada - 104,863
- Japan - 66,198
- Germany - 56,483
- Spain - 55,678
- France - 54,116
- Australia - 43,570
- India - 38,453
- Italy - 38,138
- China - 34,347
- Netherlands - 27,452
- Brazil - 27,158
- Sweden - 20,395
- Poland - 15,921
Returning Visits (I like this because, to me, it shows how many "SEOmoz addicts" we're building month-to-month):
- January - 31,432
- February - 29,874
- March - 36,737
- April - 43,749
- May - 38,529
- June - 32,004
- July - 47,114
- August - 70,894
- September - 64,364
- October - 77,430
- November - 70,789
- December - 67,037
Feedburner Stats (from late July to present):
- 4,131 subscribers on average (all time)
- 5,840 subscribers as of today
- 5,387 subscribers (averaging the past 30 days)
- 118,695 clicks to content from feeds (all time)
- Chart below shows agents:
Hope some of you find all of this as fascinating as I do! I'm also crossing my fingers that more bloggers will start to release their stats at the year's end.
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