In 2008, we somehow skipped out, but this year, we're bringing sexy back. Yes, it's probably helpful to our competitors, but it's also hugely valuable to our members (we hope) and part of our core value australia business email lists of transparency. So in the same vein of Rand's blog posts about the venture funding process, we're opening the kimono and sharing some analysis in hopes that others can benefit from our traffic and conversion rate learnings. We'll start with an overview of visitor and broad traffic data: SEOmoz Visits by Month in 2009 The early part of the year featured a big growth, as the overall popularity of the site spiked, new traffic sources (like Twitter) started bringing in visitors and we had some big successes with email marketing.
The latter part of the year saw relatively steady numbers, with a small, predictable fall in December for the holidays. SEOmoz Return Visits by Month 2009 Return visits show a fairly similar trend, with a slight drop in Q4 (though, as you'll see below, it was a massive growth from 2008). We've come a long way in 2009 - growing traffic to the site as a whole and to the blog. Revenue was also up over 250%, so it's not just additional visits or visitors - conversions have also been improving.