I stopped by the Northfield Public Library this morning for some quiet wi-fi use and got stopped by Kathy Sommers, volunteer with the Friends of the Northfield Public Library. She…
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
LoGroNo (Locally Grown Northfield) traffic for September was up 5-18% from August, according to Google Analytics.
September compared to August:
- 7,583 Absolute Unique Visitors; Previous: 6,417 (+18.17%)
- 17,135 Visits; Previous: 16,216 (+5.67%)
- 37,772 Pageviews; Previous: 34,870 (+8.32%)
Participation
We had 874 comments, up from 785. I missed getting the number of commenters but we’ve been averaging 60-80 different people commenting since March, 2009.
PageRank
Our Google PageRank value is 5 out of a possible 10 points according to PRChecker. (PageRank uses a base-10 logarithmic scale, same as the Richter scale. So a site with a PageRank of 5 has approximately ten times the traffic of a site with a PageRank of 4.)
Referrers
Where did our traffic come from? Our top Northfield-area referrers:
Rank – Source – Visits
3: northfield.org: 1295
11: kymnradio.net: 59
16: stolaf.edu: 44
18: bleeet.blogspot.com: 40
19: northfieldrotary.org: 39
28: grovelandscaping.com: 32
29: nddc.org: 31
The top 50 (we thank you!) of the 285 referrers: (continued)
Blogger Linda Seebach, former editorial writer for the now-closed Rocky Mountain News, invited me to meet with her Cannon Valley Elder Collegium (CVEC) class this week for her aptly-titled course,…
For National Coming Out Day, two Carleton students taking Doug McGill’s fall journalism class recently published Northfield-related stories: Debbie Wong published “Coming Out Day” Raises Issues and Eyebrows in Northfield on the new Pressville blog and Maia Rodriguez published On National Coming Out Day, Northfield Reflects on Its "Gay-Friendliness" on Northfield.org. I found it troubling that neither of them mentioned or linked to our 2007 blog post, How gay-friendly is Northfield? with the 30 comments attached. (continued)
Andrea Een was in promo mode yesterday at GBM, letting everyone know about the Way Park benefit concert on Saturday at First United Church of Christ. She and Theo Wee…
Master gardener Carol Korda stopped by my corner office at GBM on Tuesday to promo the upcoming readings by her longtime family friend, Holly Hughes, editor of the new…
I happened to be driving by Northfield’s train depot yesterday when I noticed a Union Pacific crew had arrived. They were boarding it up, as it has evidently been…
The sledding hill below St. Olaf’s Old Main was sporting the remnants of Monday’s minor snowfall yesterday.
I was out of town at a funeral on Saturday so I missed taking photos for the Susan Perry Memorial Walk for Animals. Fortunately, Castle Rock-based photographer Bridgette Hallcock was…