PR Blog performance November 2010

Another month ends. The attached graphic shows visits (yellow) plus page views (yellow plus red) to this blog over the twelve months to end November. Traffic was essentially the same as October. 

The top ten page views in November were:

• Frustrations over the NBN discussion  522 page views
• Sunday Essay - the importance of quiet time in a crowded world 309 page views
• Report of the NSW Aborigines Welfare Board, year ended 30 June 1940 213 page views
• Generation One, Andrew Forrest and Aboriginal jobs... 184 page views
• Sunday Snippets - NZ earthquakes, Tomorrow when the War began, wild weather 104 page views
• The Importance of Family History 89 page views
• Can New Zealand match Australian incomes?  36 page views
• Australian history and the migrant experience  29 page views
• Death of Australian painter and writer James Gleeson  28 page views
• The importance of cultural activities 28 page views

Again some traditional reader favourites on this list, plus some new ones.

I don't have proper in-traffic figures, so can't properly between the various categories. That said:

The top individual referring sites excluding search engine traffic were:

• http://newenglandaustralia.blogspot.com/ 23 visitors 
• http://wintonbates.blogspot.com/ 11 visitors
• http://niar-guardianangel.blogspot.com/ 7 visitors

The top search words were:

• importance of family history 20
• personal reflections 10 cultural gatekeeping 8
• jim belshaw 8
• brian d. barnes 7
• john martin 5
• personal reflections means 4
• actions taken by the australian government 4
• frenchaustralia.blogspot.com 4
• importance of cultural activities 4

Search engine traffic was dominated by google.com.au followed by google.com. The highest non Google engines a long way behind were Bing at  50, Yahoo at 26.