I plan to be at the Northfield City Council meeting at 7 pm, doing a live chat (see below) along with the KYMN video stream.
Category: <span>LoGroNo</span>
The Northfield Historical Society’s annual auction is coming up on Sat. Nov. 21. (I keep waiting for Hayes to blog it so maybe this will wake him up.) Here’s a…
LoGroNo (Locally Grown Northfield) traffic for October was up 9-12% from September, according to Google Analytics:
- 8,484 Absolute Unique Visitors; Previous: 7,583 (+11.88%)
- 19,222 Visits; Previous: 17,135 (+12.18%)
- 41,502 Pageviews; Previous: 37,772 (+9.88%)
Participation
We had 1,272 comments, up from 874. That might be an all-time high.
We had 92 different people commenting, slightly higher than the 60-80 that we’ve been averaging 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 (we thank you!) Northfield-area referrers:
Rank – Source – Visits
03: northfield.org: 1476
10: bleeet.blogspot.com: 69
13: kymnradio.net: 61
14: nddc.org: 54
20: stolaf.edu: 37
21: pressville.org: 35
24: northfieldrotary.org: 31
31: tesselar.net: 19
34: directorsimon.wordpress.com: 17
47: milltowncycles.blogspot.com: 10
The top 100 of the 276 referrers: (continued)
Bob Will was our guest this week, talking with us about efforts to save the Northfield train depot. You might think Bob is an old geezer, given that he has a few ‘formers’ associated with his name (eg, former Carleton economics professor, former Northfield Rotary Club president). But he’s more than a little active in community affairs (eg, current member of the City of Northfield Heritage Preservation Commission (HPC) and the Streetscape Task Force).
Click play to listen. 30 minutes. I’ve turned off comments for this post. Continue the discussion here.
We’re planning on offering a paid Locally Grown membership option Real Soon Now. The idea is to continue some (much?) of what we do now for free, maybe supported with ads.
But we’d also offer a paid option in which a variety of benefits are available to members only. So what might the benefits be? I’ve thought of four and would like to hear a reaction to these, as well as ideas on other possible benefits. (continued)
BAMG/NEG head honcho Rob Shanilec invited me to a party at Jennifer and Chris Sawyer’s house on Monday to kick off the promo blitz for the big event of the…
The Northfield Area of Commerce sponsored a forum this morning at the Community Resource Bank‘s Community Room. Purpose: "… for local employers, property owners, and our city government leaders to hear from each." See the agenda screenshot on the right.
I captured the audio and took two dozen photos. (continued)
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)
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