AgWired readership continues to grow. We look at those web stats frequently and the end of the month makes for a good comparison point. So far we’ve had almost 12,000 unique visitors to AgWired and growing daily. We had 133,000 page views last month. Once again last month we had more new visitors and total visits than any previous month by a significant percentage. Our average daily traffic increased too.
Amazingly, although we are a seriously search engine optimized website 93 % of our visitors come directly from typing our url into their browser or from a bookmark. In fact, 35 % of news visitors add us to their favorites. An equal number come from search engines and links from other websites (about 3.5%/ea.). We’ve also had visitors from 72 countries that can be identified with the top ones being European Union, Australia, Slovenia and Great Britain. There are quite a few unidentified’s and I know the EU isn’t a country but they must have their own domain extension.
Someone seems to like what they see I guess. All I can say is “thanks for visiting.” I’m a little overwhelmed by how well AgWired has been received. The kind words of support we’ve received mean a lot. We wouldn’t have this level of traffic if it wasn’t for word of mouth since we haven’t had any budget to do some serious promotion yet. We’d like to do so and are currently seeking the support to make that happen. If you’d like to assist please let us know.
Stay “tuned in” because there’s a lot more to come. Oh, and if you need help setting up your blog, we’ve got a growing list of clients for whom we’re designing and building sites and conducting training. Our rates are reasonable.
Key developments in both the domestic and international arenas this past week are likely to have an impact on the future of federal farm policy.
This is too cool not to let you in on. We haven’t even started doing video here on AgWired (just wait) and already you can now do live video “broadcasts” from a mobile phone, direct to your blog. The company introducing it is 
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They’re such a good looking group I had to post them for you. This is the newly elected national officer group for 
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Jill Gainer, the former manager of emerging initiatives and media manager for Enterprise Rent-A-Car, has joined Osborn & Barr Communications as media director. After eight years on the client side of the business, Jill returns to agency life to lead Osborn & Barr’s media department. Her responsibilities include recommending the media vehicles that best meet the client’s communication objectives and supervising media planning and buying on all accounts. 
Kent Martin was hired as associate director of public relations to provide communications expertise for association clients and government clients. Kent is also responsible for helping to grow Osborn & Barr’s Gov-Link business, specializing in providing outreach and education services to government agencies.
Corn growers now have access to the broadest-spectrum in-plant insect protection in the marketplace with the federal registration of Herculex® XTRA Insect Protection.
If you’ve read AgWired for long you know about the