SEOmoz’s 2006 Stats in Review

Time for the year-in-review style posts. Andy’s started it off with his top 10 posts and now it’s our turn. All data is sourced from our Indextools install, which excludes spider visits.

First off, our most popular blog posts:

1. 5 HTML Elements You Probably Never Use (but perhaps should)
   Pg Views – 113,000
2. How to Ruin a Web Design – The Design Curve
   Pg Views – 58,000
3. Interviewing Web Developers – 20 Good Questions to Ask
   Pg Views – 48,000
4. How to Convince a Client Their Site Doesn’t Need Music
   Pg Views – 38,400
5. 21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic
   Pg Views – 32,900
6. How to Convince a Client They Don’t Need a Splash Page
   Pg Views – 27,310
7. A List of Every Website Statistic Publicly Available
   Pg Views – 24,200
8. 10 Remarkably Effective Strategies for Driving Traffic
   Pg Views – 23,400
9. Top 100 Users Control 56% of Digg’s HomePage Content
   Pg Views – 21,000
10. 11 Best Practices for URLs
    Pg Views – 18,000

Top Referrers:

1. Direct Access (feeds, bookmarks, type-in) – 720,147
2. Digg.com – 180,375
3. Google.com – 157,517
4. StumbleUpon – 60,161
5. Del.icio.us – 39,834
6. Bloglines – 19.521
7. Google.co.uk – 17,283
8. I-mezzo.net – 13,111
9. blog.searchenginewatch.com – 11,043
10. reddit.com – 10,274
11. Google.ca – 9,994
12. search.yahoo.com – 7,868

Visits by Month:

1. January – 108,067
2. February – 84,673
3. March – 120,701
4. April – 115,477
5. May – 120,701
6. June – 86,696
7. July – 174,848
8. August – 268,952
9. September – 182,760
10. October – 249,511
11. November – 186,484
12. December – 166,112

Top Search Phrases:

1. IP Lookup – 8,578
2. IP Location – 8,047
3. SEOmoz – 8,032
4. Web 2.0 Awards – 4,927
5. Web 2.0 – 3,517
6. SEO Tools – 2,455
7. IP to Location – 1,887
8. Redzee – 1,410
9. Internet Advancement – 1,359
10. Page Strength – 1,335
11. Google Patent – 1,233
12. IP Map – 1,202
13. SEO – 1,023
14. Search Engine Ranking – 959
15. IP Address Lookup – 951

Top Search Engines:

1. Google – 231,563
2. Yahoo – 8,437
3. MSN – 5,169
4. Alexa – 613
5. AOL Search – 559
6. Ask Jeeves – 456
7. Dogpile – 335
8. MSN Sympatico – 284
9. Blueyonder – 198
10. AltaVista – 179

Top Countries:

1. United States – 817,282
2. United Kingdom – 132,138
3. Canada – 104,863
4. Japan – 66,198
5. Germany – 56,483
6. Spain – 55,678
7. France – 54,116
8. Australia – 43,570
9. India – 38,453
10. Italy – 38,138
11. China – 34,347
12. Netherlands – 27,452
13. Brazil – 27,158
14. Sweden – 20,395
15. Poland – 15,921

Returning Visits (I like this because, to me, it shows how many “SEOmoz addicts” we’re building month-to-month):

1. January – 31,432
2. February – 29,874
3. March – 36,737
4. April – 43,749
5. May – 38,529
6. June – 32,004
7. July – 47,114
8. August – 70,894
9. September – 64,364
10. October – 77,430
11. November – 70,789
12. December – 67,037

Feedburner Stats (from late July to present):

• 4,131 subscribers on average (all time)
• 5,840 subscribers as of today
• 5,387 subscribers (averaging the past 30 days)
• 118,695 clicks to content from feeds (all time)
• Chart below shows agents:

Hope some of you find all of this as fascinating as I do! I’m also crossing my fingers that more bloggers will start to release their stats at the year’s end.