Thanks to Referring Websites and Google, Over 120,000 Visits in 2009

Today is the Google Analytics state of this blog report. If you love stats, this is your lucky day! In 2009, Hartkeisonline had 84,673 unique visitors, who came to the blog 123,877 times. Among those, 68% of the visitors were first timers.

Sixteen percent of you came directly to the blog, 55.54% of you were referred by other websites (thanks, webmasters and bloggers!!) and 25.55% of you came through search engines. Now for a report on our Top Content of the year, as analyzed by the google traffic cop.

Guest Bloggers Lead the Way in Attracting an Audience

Pugs Leap Does

1) Our number one story of the year was by a first time blogger, Pascal Destandau, who was motivated by the threat of the food safety juggernaut in Congress to his livelihood, Small Farmer Warns HR2749 Will Put Me Out of Business. One can only hope, that among his 4,965 readers of his piece, were the legislative aides on Capitol Hill. The bill did pass and now the Senate will soon consider this issue, so please send this post to the Ag LA in your Senators office.

Read the rest of the most googled blogs of 2009 here.

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