2007 in Review.

2007 was a great year for this blog.

First of all, I broke the dry posting spell by actually getting back to it in May, thanks to seeing a co-worker blog personally and professionally at the same time. (Simon).

Second of all, I actually drove a considerable amount of traffic (for this blog) during 2007. Visitors increased 123%, people averaged 25% more pages viewed per visit, my bounce rate dropped over 30%, and average time on the site increased 120%.

My Top Sources of Traffic Outside of Organic and Direct Traffic:
Stumbleupon, MyBlogLog, and Sphinn.
Stumbleupon traffic appeared to actually read my site, as did MyBlogLog users. Sphinn users did not appear to read content based on the time on site. If they did, they read at least twice as fast.

My Organic Traffic
Organic traffic is definitely improving, and one lone experiment in keyword research prior to posting did result in that blog post lodging itself for several months in a top ten listing in Google for my targeted phrase and subsequently delivering traffic.

The top ten posts by number of visitors:
11 Measures of Social Networking Profile Success
Blog Improvement Tips for the Meme
PPC Bid Management Strategy - Bid Optimization of Non-Converting Keywords
SEO for Federal Agencies
Airline Marketing Strategies and Travel Advertising
Holiday E-Commerce Marketing Roundup
Why Internet Marketing Is Like A Treasure Hunt
Stop Shooting Viral Marketing Blanks
Michael Vick, Atlanta Falcons, NFL, and Reputation Management
Opt-in Email Marketing Techniques