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Another small update on the traffic growth of the three blogs I have been tracking, now that the November stats are in. You’ll see previous posts here and here.

The first blog, a current affairs blog.  May seem to be a little bit of an aberration in relation to the natural traffic growth pattern of this blog. I believe the blog was linked to from an inner page of the BBC’s site during that month and therefore received a spike in traffic that may explain the drop and ensuing resumption of approximately steady growth over the next months.

The second of the three blogs we are following is a health related blog. Astonishingly, there seems to be a spike in the May traffic for this blog too, but I do not recall any corresponding stimulus for this jump. It could be a general increase in health related searching surrounding the swine flu pandemic.

finally, and perhaps most interestingly, is the expat/living abroad related blog. Its traffic pattern shows a slightly skewed curve centered around September – is this the peak travel month between the two principal countries mentioned on the blog?

I hope this small series of posts offers some insight in to natural blog traffic growth rates. I’ll continue to post updates on this small project at approximately 2-3 month intervals.

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