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While I did say I won’t give specific stats and earnings info for my larger sites, I was checking on their overall traffic trends for October, so I thought I’d share a little bit about whether they went up or down, and why. I’m surprised the stats weren’t much worse on these sites last month actually.

BizAmmo.com - Unique visitors were slightly up and pageviews were slightly down. Frankly I just haven’t been posting here enough beyond sponsored posts. While this is technically a business “blog,” I treat it as more of a general content site, so there’s not much interaction. I did finally add some subscription / bookmarking options a bit more obviously a few days ago, so that may help moving forward. I’m also planning to start more news-oriented posts in the “blog” section to try to get a bit more of that interaction / discussion finally going. This site went live in August 2006, but was only moved to blog format this past Spring (platform-wise; not in treatment).

AllFreelanceWriting.com - This one had my biggest increases - almost doubling its unique visitors and nearly a 50% increase in pageviews. It was a shocker, especially because I had done nearly nothing to market the site all month. The biggest boost in traffic came from Stumbleupon, and there was a huge amount of traffic to a very brief article listing some writing forums (which didn’t come from SU by the way, because it hadn’t been added there). If anything, I would have thought that my new featured list of writing blogs would have done better. I’m a bit disappointed, so I’ll have to expand it and promote it more. I also need to get back on my controversial blog posts over there… I’ve been much too mild since putting myself on a schedule of regular posting topics (writing jobs, writers’ resources, marketing tips, etc.). I’m losing my edge.

NakedPR.com - This one had a minor drop in unique visitors and a minor increase in pageviews. So fewer people, but they’re viewing more of the site, so I guess that’s a good sign at least. I fully expected a drop here; a bigger one actually. I haven’t been posting frequently (I’ve been busy with other blogs, blogging about online PR for a client’s company blog, and gearing up to launch a second PR blog as my official company blog so I’m debating the future angle of this one). It’s primarily where I rant about idiotic things in online PR. There’s been plenty to rant about lately, but I just haven’t really been in the mood. I’m enjoying the cold air, rain, and blustery Fall days so much that I just can’t get into the mood to bitch enough. I did however get a good bit of traffic to my post on why Facebook sucks, which amused me because I’d been itching to write it for ages. I’m sure I’ll be in ranting mode again soon. I’d better be. It’s how I get all of my natural incoming links and most of my traffic over there. I’m also planning to start upping the “resource” posts and tutorials to help webmasters with their DIY PR efforts, so that may also help - my post on effective free press release distribution has also served me very well for that market traffic-wise.

So there you have it… a very general “report card” about what a bad girl I’ve been so far this Fall and how my sites are suffering for it.

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