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Onwards and upwards

Posted on December 01, 2012 by

Despite slightly fewer posts last month than the preceding one, Wings Over Scotland still entered its second year by hitting another new all-time pageviews record in November, with an increase of nearly 25,000 to 429,114. The more telling statistic, though, was the number of unique users, which rocketed by a whopping 24% as almost 5000 new people came to visit, bringing total readership past 23,000.

(We were going to stop doing these every month, but with December’s figures likely to take a fall due to the Christmas break, we hope you’ll forgive us one more moment of self-congratulatory horn-tooting while we’re still on the upslope.)

It also seems a good time to remind you that we’re always on the lookout for features to draw even more readers in. In 2013 we’d like to broaden our contributor pool a bit and add some more names to the excellent talent we’ve already been proud to showcase. 2012 has seen a dozen people other than myself notching at least one WingsLand byline, and we want lots more voices next year. If you’ve got something to say and you want tens of thousands of people to hear it, you know where to reach us.

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  1. Davy says:

    Well done ” Wings over Scotland” you have earned it, great articles and freedom to post comments unaltered.
     
    WINGS OVER ALBA, GU BRATH.

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  2. Sword says:

    Dont read too much into these statistics Wings, most of these were me.

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  3. Eco_Exile says:

    I view these posts and comments almost daily. Keep up the good work.

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  4. Marcia says:

    Well done young man.

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  5. Laura says:

    Well done! Have to say if pro-independence websites had a ‘star rating’ you’d definitely get 5* from me. 

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  6. Kenny Campbell says:

    Pulling in better attendances than Aberdeen these days….

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  7. Appleby says:

    You got your amazon thingie up in time. Christmas shopping online is in the back of my head. I’ll keep an eye out for that when amazon is a likely source.

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