To recap the last month, below are my five top posts for October 2012 and some observations based on the data from WordPress Site Stats and Google Analytics.

After a down month in September, the traffic stats from October are encouraging to me; both visits and unique visitors were slightly more than double (up 103% and 101% respectively). A few factors played into this.

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To recap the last month, below are my five top posts for September 2012 and some observations based on the data from WordPress Site Stats and Google Analytics.

Unfortunately, after three months of consistent, steady growth in every major metric, September was a down month for traffic overall. There’s no question that I’ve not been taking the time needed to keep up with my goal of two-plus posts per week. There has been a couple of family/personal related items that have unexpectedly taken time away from when I normally take up writing posts and otherwise maintaining this blog… perhaps a post for next week. Stay tuned.

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Once again, I am very thankful to you who read my blog. I do what I do with it for your personal growth and mine. My hope and prayer is that you find my content beneficial and encouraging. Here are my 5 top posts for September 2012:  Continue Reading…