2011 in Review for DecisionStats

Interviews in 2011-

9/12/2011 Dan Steinberg Founder, Salford Systems
8/26/2011 Eberhard Miethke and Dr Mamdouh Refaat Angoss
8/26/2011 Scott Gidley CTO and Founder , DataFlux
8/25/2011 Beth Schultz Editor in Chief, All Analytics.com
8/25/2011 Jaime Fitzgerald President-CEO, Fitzgerald Analytics
8/11/2011 Dr Ingo Mierswa and Dr Simon Fischer CEO -Founder and Head Rand D, Rapid Miner
7/29/2011 Mike Boyaraski Head Product Marketing, Jaspersoft
6/26/2011 Elissa Fink VP Tableau Software
6/14/2011 Gaurav Vohra Jigsaw Academy
5/27/2011 Rob La Gesse Chief Disruption Officer ,Rackspace Hosting.
5/24/2011 Sandro Saitta Data Mining Blog
2/21/2011 Anne Milley Senior Director JMP
2/11/2011 David Katz Senior Analyst , Dataspora

Lies , True Lies and Statistics.- Decisionstats crossed 300,000 reads in 2011. Includes all forms on syndication.

First Six Months-Wordpress.com Stats

Months and Years

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total
2011 10,238 9,868 11,402 11,629 11,726 993

 

Last Six Months- I moved to ZippyKid/ RackSpace from WordPress.com and so Stats are Google Analytics Based.

74,385 people visited this site.
85,098 Visits
74,385 Unique Visitors
185,163 Pageviews
2.18 Pages/Visit
00:01:23 Avg. Time on Site
26.90% Bounce Rate
87.30% % New Visits
87.07%New Visitor
74,092 Visits
12.92%Returning Visitor
10,995 Visits
0.01%Other11 Visits

Comments- once again I am overdoing SEO and not targeting sticky content enough! On the other hand SEO enables me to take 2 weeks off for vacation (in Goa ) with less than 10% dip in traffic :)

Newsletter Stats from Feedbliz-372 subscribers at EOY

From Google Feed -Webmaster Central

Feed Google subscribers Submit feed as Sitemap
161 Yes

 

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Clients included- Predictive Analytics World Conference Series (Vendor Neutral Conferences), Rapid Miner (Open Source Enterprise Software for Business Analytics), JigSaw Academy (E-Learning for Analytics) and an occasional ad from CloudNumbers.com (Open Source Cloud Computing)

I am thankful and humbled by their support- they help me give gave content for free, pay server bills  to ZippyKid hosting (Rackspace) , WordPress Premium Themes and GetClicky software.

After August 16, I decided to test Adsense.

I love the confusion matrix for the AdSense ads, or maybe the content is too confusing .

Yes I am plotting to disrupt the internet advertising space! Wait in 2012 for Facebook and Micorsoft’s version of AdSense!!

65 AdSense Ads Clicked
202,575 AdSense Ads Viewed