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We’ve had another busy week at the T-Bucket Forums.  We keep thinking as the weather improves, then the forum will settle down a bit, but this certainly has not been the case.

We were excited a month ago, when we saw we had finally edged over the 1,000,000 hits/month number for April.  We saw 1,100,000+ hits that month.  Well, without trying to be ‘punny’, all we can say is the hits just keep coming.  In May, we exceeded 1,250,000 hits!

To give you an idea of the growth we’re experiencing, in January of this year, we didn’t even have 450,000 hits.  And we saw 1,250,000+ hits last month?!?  This represents a 170% increase, since the first month of the year.

A week ago, the top 20 keywords used in Google searches showed we had 18 on page 1, 1 on page 2 and 1 on page 3.  This morning, we have 19 on page 1 and just 1 on page 2.  Over the course of the last two weeks, since we installed vBSEO, the number of keywords used to link visitors to the forums has increased by 82.

The stats from the forum show 988 threads, 9,871 posts and 470 members.  That is a weekly increase of 68 threads, 615 posts and 18 members.  Now these numbers might not seem significant, standing alone.  But we need to look back to the increases we saw in a two week period from 11 May to 24 May.  In those two weeks, we gained 83 threads, 847 posts and 22 members.  Last week’s numbers suddenly look much stronger.

Our Bounce rate continues to improve, as well.  Bounce Rate is reflected in the percentage of visitors that land on one of the forum’s pages and then leave without viewing a second page.  That overall, monthly percentage dropped approximately 2% one week ago.  Today, we are down another 3%!

We want everyone to remember there are now some new forums for the submission of technical, how-to articles.  We hope to see more members submitting articles in the coming weeks, so we can become an even stronger T-Bucket resource.

Now it’s just a waiting game to see who submits our 10,000th post.

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