December 2009 Traffic Numbers for German History Blog

I’ve been making it a habit to post monthly traffic figures for my German History Blog (GHB).  At the beginning of December I posted the November numbers, which were great (by my standards) thanks to lots of content on a very focused topic: the Berlin Wall and the 20 year anniversary of its coming down.

Lesson learned from November: lots of focused content — with frequent updates — helps drive traffic to your blog.

Lesson learned from December: no content  — with no updates — helps keep traffic away from your blog.

Sadly, I “went dark” for much of November and all of December (and now almost a week of January.)  I know a lot of bloggers go through such stages, but probably not very many good, serious bloggers.  Because the latter know that you just can’t afford to hurt yourself in that way.

So it’s time to pick myself up and get rolling again.  Meanwhile, you can see the sad results here, in the interest of complete honesty and transparency (as embarrassing as it may be!):

German History Blog
Month	Unique visitors	Number of visits	Pages
2009-08	157	206	670
2009-09	166	181	332
2009-10	365	444	800
2009-11	808	865	1400
2009-12	273	296	439

Onwards!

Until next time,

Bill Dawson

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