At the end of last year I posted some 2006 stats about the SEOptimise blog, another year has passed (very quickly) so I thought this would be a good time to take a look at the progress made over the last year.

Top 10 posts by pageviews during 2007
1 5 web design elements to earn your visitors trust – 14,090
2 Yahoo Search Marketing & Google AdWords promo code – 8,864
3 How to increase StumbleUpon traffic – 5,545
4 Google patents SMS payment system – 4,021
5 10 ways to make your website more popular – 2,874
6 Ultimate social media optimisation list – 2,080
7 Why you need to learn about targeted linkbait – 1,984
8 FireFox add to favorites code – 1,909
9 Blogger <$BlogMetaData$> tag includes noindex meta tag! – 1,708
10 Which keyword research tool to use? – 1,614

Number of Blog Posts
2006: 293
2007: 518 (total number, not just 2007)

RSS Subscribers
2006: 70
2007: 634

Technorati Rank
2006: 94,938 – 283 blog reactions
2007: 20,691 – 1,192 blog reactions (Authority 255)

Alexa Rating
2006: 82,395
2007: 56,658

Yahoo Site Explorer
2006: 2,758 links (except from this domain to entire site)
2007: 29,100

Google SEOptimise query
2006: 9,630
2007: 23,400

Looking back a year later it’s clear the blog has come a long way, this has been largely due to Patrick’s excellent work during the last six months in addition to the combined growth of subscribers and search traffic.

For 2008 we aim to continue providing the quality content which our readers enjoy and subscribe to, hopefully making significant improvements to these stats ready for next years post! :)

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Kevin Gibbons is Founder/Director of Strategy at SEOptimise. Kevin is well known within the search industry as a blogger for sites such as Search Engine Land, Econsultancy and Search Engine Watch. Kevin is also a frequent SEO speaker at a number of conferences including Search Marketing Expo (SMX), Search Engine Strategies (SES), a4uexpo, SAScon and BrightonSEO.