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Activities, 2007

December 8:
One Portuguese translation, Organizing large study projects, contributed by Valdemir Fernandes
December 5:
Added "paypal" donation feature
November 26:
Completed reformatting/simplifying of all 1200 pages!
November 19:
One French translation, Concentration, contributed by Valérie Roy
October 26:
One Persian/Farsi translation, Concentration, contributed by Ahmad Azizi
October 24:
Two Portuguese translations, Problem solving and Adaptive problem solving, contributed by Valdemir Fernandes
October 10:
One Portuguese translation, Auto-Disciplina, contributed by Valdemir Fernandes
October 9:
One Portuguese translation update,
Aprendendo a aprender, contributed by Valdemir Fernandes
October 8:
One Chinese translation update, Test Preparation  contributed by
浅海章/Keny Joe
October 1: 
Contribute all guides and their translations of the Study Guides and Strategies website in a continuation of my public service mission to OLPC school server digital libraries.  One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Program
September 26:
One Chinese translation, Succeeding in online learning  contributed by
浅海章/Keny Joe
September 17:  
One Chinese translation, feedback  contributed by
浅海章/Keny Joe
August 21: 
One Persian translation, v  contributed by Neeku Shamekhi
August 14: 
addition of "KWL reading method"
June 26-29:
Attended/presented at the Learning 2007: The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa: "Developing and Using Digital Resources in Support of Learners" Digital resources include webpages; Flash, video, and audio learning objects.
May 21: 
addition of the Persian translations in the Open Directory Project
May 17: 
addition of "transitional phrases" examples and game
May 14: 
Revised and added new Flash exercise:  Basics of web design & accessibility
April 30: 
Revised and added new Flash exercise:  Managing by exception
April 23-25:
9th Annual Information Technology Conference 2007
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system
"Developing and Using Digital Resources in Support of Learners"
April 12: 
Imported Flash exercises and developed the index
April 11:
One Persian translation, Avoiding procrastination, contributed by Neeku Shamekhi
March 24: 
Start of a new feature:  my "guide blog" on selective topics.  #1:  Genius
March 2:
New topic: Bibliography of digital/free textbooks, documents, etc. External links.
February 23:
One Spanish translation, Studying in Groups, contributed by The Academic Advantage
February 13:
Three French translations, Case Studies, Public Speaking, and Using Feedback contributed by The Academic Advantage
February 10:
one Portuguese translation, Online learning, a cluster map, contributed by Joe Landsberger;
February 9:
One Persian translation, Stress, contributed by Neeku Shamekhi
One French translation, Visual Learner, contributed by The Academic Advantage
February 8:
Two French translations, Critical Thinking and Self Discipline, contributed by The Academic Advantage;
one German translation, Online learning, a cluster map, contributed by Joe Landsberger;
one French translation, Online learning, a cluster map, contributed by Joe Landsberger
January 28:
One Turkish translation, SQ3R, contributed by Atschikura
January 25:
New Guide/topic: Online learning: Succeeding with distance education;
New Guide/topic: Online learning, a cluster map, contributed by Joe Landsberger
one Spanish translation, Online learning, a cluster map, contributed by Joe Landsberger
January 20: added a Flash exercise on concept mapping as well as the Tony Buzan "youTube" video. Sent over 5,000 updates on 2006 traffic (below).

2007 Website metrics

12,796,495 page views/impressions; 8% increase over 2006.
(
82,3 million hits; 5,1 million visits; 63,6 million files)

Statistics given in "page views." For "hits" multiply pages views by 5.5 for a rough estimate.

December: 989,240 page views, 12.3% increase over Dec 2006
November:
1,210,333 page views, 9.3% increase over Nov 2006
October:
1,295,085 page views, 2.1% increase over Oct 2006
September:
1,232,960 page views, 7% increase over Sept 2006
August:
 954,790 page views, 2.3% increase over August 2006
July:
822,892 page views, 6.8% increase over July 2006
June:
939,687 page views, 18.7% increase over June 2006
May:
1,042,459 page views, 16.6% increase over May 2006
April:
  956,723 page views, 1.2% increase over April 2006
March:
1,083,307 page views, 7.7% decrease over March 2006
February:
1,043,610 page views, 20.2% increase over February 2006
January:
1,225,409 page views, 21.9% over January 2006

Traffic for the year 2006 11.8 million page views, an increase 41.7% over 2005
Traffic for the year 2005 8.4 million page views, an increase 35.4% over 2004

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Traffic, projects and additions 2006
Traffic, projects and additions 2005
Traffic, projects and additions 2004

Traffic 1997 - 2006

Year

2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997
Viewings 12,796,495 11,849,732 8,300,907 6,128,170 4,984,983 2,884,739 1,942,479 1,224,433 518,550 190,050 107,114
Increase

8.0%

41.7% 35.4% 22.9% 72.8% 48.5% 58.6% 136.1% 172.8% 77.4%

2006 summary

  • Traffic increased 41.7% over 2005 to 11,849, 732 page views
  • Traffic increased 31.3% over 2005 to 69,537,932 hits
  • SGS gained a "7" out of 10 ranking with Google
  • SGS is highly placed in a number of search terms, often in the top ten out of tens of thousands.
  • Added six guides in English
  • Added six translations in Spanish, two in French, two in Hungarian, four in Japanese, twelve in Chinese, fourteen in Russian, thirteen in Hebrew, three in Vietnamese, one in Indonesian. 57 total! Thank you volunteers!
  • Added sixteen Flash interactive exercises in several languages.
  • According to Google, the website is linked to by over 60,000 websites, over 10,000 by .edu domain.

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