I was completely blown away by Jeremy's recent release of his site statistics. Since coming to popularity in the Spring of this year Jeremy has been one of the most succesful traffic-growth stories in the blogosphere and certainly the search community. Below I've taken his numbers and added our own:
| | Shoe Visits | Shoe Pg Views | SEOmoz Visits | SEOmoz Pg Views |
| Nov 05 | 22767 | 49446 | 33221 | 260376 |
| Dec 05 | 53304 | 220250 | 93467 | 399453 |
| Jan 06 | 53908 | 123576 | 108067 | 435190 |
| Feb 06 | 46998 | 141580 | 84673 | 315759 |
| Mar 06 | 58916 | 250165 | 120701 | 319239 |
| Apr 06 | 89175 | 268680 | 115477 | 278982 |
| May 06 | 132736 | 359074 | 120840 | 270602 |
| Jun 06 | 156856 | 1229490 | 86696 | 235650 |
| Jul 06 | 181782 | 1382714 | 174848 | 477059 |
| Aug 06 | 206823 | 1099930 | 268952 | 617346 |
| Sep 06 | 273281 | 793710 | 182760 | 550216 |
| Oct 06 | 26491 | 67457 | 72861 | 141329 |
A few items on the list amazed me:
- In Jeremy's first month of blogging he had 26K visits. In our first month (way back in October of 2004) we had around 6K visits (and that was after transferring an existing blog from another domain)
- Jeremy's visit numbers have a relatively steady climb (with the exception of a monstrous jump in May) but his page views jumped up 4X the previous month's numbers in June when he added only 20% or so to his visits
- The jump for Shoemoney from August to September added almost 50% to his visits but page views shrank considerably - I have to wonder what caused page view inflation/deflation over the summer. Did he switch from full text to partial and back again?
Another standout item that impressed me was a comparison of links. There's only two sources that are reliable for accurate link count numbers these days - Yahoo! and Technorati. The former measures all links on the web (that Yahoo!'s spidered) while the latter only reviews the blogosphere.
According to Yahoo! Site Explorer's last page of results (which we find to be the most accurate):
According to Technorati's count:
I think we can identify one source of Jeremy's popularity as coming from his more diverse reach among the blogosphere. All in all though he's clearly a brilliant self-marketer and someone who I'm anxious to learn from... Maybe we can score an interview with him in the near future. I think Jeremy is someone who has a very different perspective and different tactics from those that we discuss and his diversity could add a lot to our way of thinking.
What do you say Shoemoney? Up for a few email exchanges?
