How to Promote a Web Site

So the numbers are in for 2007, unique visitors have increased by 100,000 from last year.
AWSTATS
Unique Visits = 1,651,854,
# of Visits = 2,354,985,
Page Views = 4,063,901

I guess any increase is good, kind of hoping for a bit more. Checking the what's new to the Site blog, I see 35 posts over the last few months. Most of those posts represent more than one new page address that was added. For example, this post listed 6 new pages. So come January or February these new pages will start to get a google page rank.

By moving some of the graphics off my main site and compressing html code I've been able to keep the server bandwidth constant between 2006 [136.57GBytes] and 2007 [140.44G Bytes]. However; I did receive more page views in 2006 @ 4,227,644.

One reason for an increase in bandwidth while having a decrease in page views: I've been adding the Google search bar to all the pages on the site. The search bar code contains 1927 characters, or 15,416 bytes.

Now I have to figure out why I have 200,000 fewer page views. I have had a lot of server issues this year. I have also been reducing physical page sizes, by moving information to new pages. So many pages have just one specific topic, so visitors may be hitting the exact information searched for on the first hit to the site.

Google Analytics Traffic Sources
Google Search Engine = 1,764,196
Wikipedia = 17,938
Direct Traffic = 131,634
Images.google = 5,361
My blog = 938
Stumbleupon = 742
mail.google = 443
Groups.google = 444

Related posts:
http://interfacebus.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-long-does-it-take-to-get-web-site.html
http://interfacebus.blogspot.com/2007/12/new-google-site-map-upload.html
http://interfacebus.blogspot.com/2007/12/web-site-status.html
http://interfacebus.blogspot.com/2007/11/awstata.html