Blackfriars' Marketing

Monday, January 01, 2007

2006 Blackfriars Marketing statistics

I've been doing some maintenance getting ready for the new year. In the process, I took a look at our statistics for the year and thought people might find them interesting.

First of all, 2006 was Blackfriars Marketing's most popular year to date. According to the Urchin statistics that Earthlink keeps for us, we had 826,000 visitors during the year, and about 1.6 million pageviews. Much of that is thanks to a few sites that regularly reference our content, such as macsurfer.com and seekingalpha.com. Our biggest month so far was November, 2006, when we had nearly 100,000 visitors in that month alone because of an article I wrote about Apple's iPhone possibly being sold unlocked. Who knew?

As the result of getting more attention from other blogs, Blackfriars Marketing has been climbing up the Technorati ranks, Our official ranking at this point is 19,745, based upon 261 links from 160 blogs. This of course ignores the fact that Technorati right below that notes that we actually have 434 links, but whatever. A year ago, we were excited to break into the top 100,000 sites on Technorati, so that's quite a climb in a year.

And finally, with some trepedation, I note that all of this will change in the new year. We've recently installed our own Mac OS X server at Blackfriars Headquarters, and we will soon be redirecting all our blog content there (and possibly our main Web site too). The reason we put up the server is to get out from under the onerous restrictions of Earthlink's mail system and to be able to run Wordpress as our blogging platform. We're not there yet, but you can expect big changes in the coming weeks and months.

Meanwhile, thanks to everyone for reading. I hope to have lots more and better content in the new year, starting with my trip to MacWorld San Francisco in lieu of CES this year. And if you have suggestions for what you'd like to see more of, please leave them in the comments, and we'll do our best to satisfy your interests.

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