I started the New Santa Ana blog last year, on September 1.  Through December we averaged less than two hundred visits a day.  But the new year has seen a huge increase in our readership.  We are now averaging closer to 300 visits a day,and over six thousand visits a month, as you can see in the graphic above, according to Sitemeter.  Most blogs our size average only 140 visits a day, according to Google Analytics.

Blogs take time to develop an audience.  We are lucky that we have a very popular sister blog, the Orange Juice, that has helped us build our audience.  The Orange Juice is one of the top-rated political blogs in California.  It was also the very first political blog here in Orange County.  I started the Orange Juice in July, 2003 –  back then we got less than 100 visits a day.  Today the Orange Juice averages over 45,000 visitors a month!

We have added a lot of bloggers to our team here at the New Santa Ana blog, but there is always room for more.  If you work with a non-profit or community organization, we want you on our team!  That way you can post about the great things your non-profit or community organization is up to, here in Santa Ana.  Click here to contact me if you are interested.

And now for a few more statistics:

• We have had over 72,000 page views since we started up in September of last year.
• 15,531 unique visitors have read our New Santa Ana blog.
• About 9,000 visitors have come back more than once to read our blog.
• Over 52% of our readers have been referred to us from other websites or blogs.

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Thanks to everyone who has visited and supported our blog. We truly appreciate your support!