Benefits of CommentLuv Premium: SEO & Community

First of all, I thank every one of you for visiting Clean Cut Media and double thanks to those who contribute to the discussion through commments! You are what makes this blog go and keeps me motivated to continue.

We are now testing out a new commenting system called CommentLuv Premium. It’s called CommentLuv because it shows “love” to those who leave comments by allowing them to leave a link back to one of their own blog entries. In theory (and through the testimony of many prominent bloggers), over time this should increase blog traffic as well as increase engagement on the site. It gives incentive for the “LURKERS” (people who read but never contribute) to actually leave a response. It also attracts bloggers from other blogs to come leave a comment. It also gives visitors incentive to “like” our facebook page or “+1″ our content. (Go Like our facebook page!!)

CommentLuv Premium is an EXCELLENT piece of plugin. If you are a blogger, go to the link below and check it out. It’s on sale for a limited time!

LINK TO COMMENTLUV PREMIUM WEBSITE

The CONS of CommentLuv Premium Plugin

The only downside is that many visitors will now come simply to try to add their links, try to draw in visitors but most of all to get “link juice.” A link what? In the world of SEO (search engine optimization), a link to your site in essence gives your site a vote of confidence in the eyes of the search engines. It gives your site more credibility. When super simplified, Google assumes that if people are linking to your content, it is because they like it. Thus the more links you got, the better. The more links you have from STRONG sites with high “pagerank” (a score determined by Google), the better. Our site at the moment is a solid PR 4, so I expect a lot of spam from those seeking to get links to their site. Luckily CommentLuv has a great spam filter built in.

But because of this, some house rules that were always in place but thought I’d share…

Commentluv Comment House Rules

1) MODERATION: Every comment here is moderated. When you Comment, it’s put into moderation to be reviewed before going live.
2) NAME: You must leave a LEGITIMATE name. If you put in names of your products or particular keywords you want to stuff in there, it will not be approved. (ex. Brian = Good, Internet Games Online = Not Good)
3) URL: It must be a good, clean site. Get rich sites, inappropriate sites, arbitrage sites, or any site that I wouldn’t want any of our users to visit will be removed.
4) COMMENT: Hey SEO guys, it’s really easy to spot spammers. More than 1 URL link? Disapproved. Nonsensical Comment? Disapproved. Comments clearly written by some outsourced company who does not speak english? Disapproved. Keyword stuffing into comment? Disapproved. Any links to pharmacy products or get rich schemes? Disapproved. Comments that say absolutely nothing but “Good Post” “Informative post” coupled with a keyword stuffed URL? Disapproved.

Basically, leave a real name, a good comment and there is nothing to worry about.

Examples of Bad Comments

Might as well have our readers learn a little about commenting! Here are some examples of bad spam comments that is supposed to be “sneaky” but then on a second look is obviously random.

POST: Siri Humor 
- Comment: “insightful, made me think a lot…”
- Response: this is not a thought provoking article.. it’s a bunch of screenshots of hilarious siri responses to funny questions. This comment is obviously a canned answers pasted through automated bots or by cheap SEO services using cheap tricks to put up links.

POST: Sept 11, 2001 – Remembering 9/11
- Comment: “You certainly understand how to keep a readers amused. Between your wit as well as your videos, I was nearly moved to start my own blog (well, almostHaHa!) Congrats. I truly loved what you needed to state, and more than that, the way you offered it. Too awesome!”
- Response: First of all, this comment is so poorly written. This is written by someone outside of the country. Secondly this post was about 9/11, it was a very SERIOUS post. This comment is utterly inappropriate, but it makes sense because no one had read the article. Again just bot or a mindless comment eager to get a link.

More Fun Fake Blog Comments

Lot of these remind me of those non-sense sentences written in asian stationaries . I left small commentaries on each one. Enjoy!

“No matter the ending is perfect or not, you cannot disappear from my world.”
- Yes… so true.. I think

“Hello, I just wanted to tell you, I disagree. Your post doesn’t make any sense.”
- So what did you disagree? You don’t make any sense…

“Very energetic post, I liked that bit. Will there be a part 2?”
- Energetic post.. nice

“Incredible quest there. What occurred after? Take care!”
- One quest is enough for me.

“This video post is really great, the echo quality and the picture feature of this video post is in fact amazing.”
- Especially when there is no videos in the post. Echo quality?

“Hurrah, that’s what I was exploring for, what a information! present here at this weblog, thanks admin of this web page.”
- “what a information”… what?! “weblog”… who says weblog?

“Hello, every time i used to check webpage posts here in the early hours in the break of day, for the reason that i enjoy to gain knowledge of more and more.”
- sounds like a bad parable..

“Hello to all, for the reason that I am genuinely eager of reading this web site’s post to be updated daily. It includes pleasant material.”
- omg

“I every time emailed this website post page to all my friends, for the reason that if like to read it next my contacts will too.”
- I every time think.. I understand, so I read it and so my contacts will understand and think a posting.

“Hi there, I want to subscribe for this blog to obtain most up-to-date updates, so where can i do it please assist.”
- This one is very sneaky!!! but it’s not legitimate.

“Hi there, after reading this awesome post i am too cheerful to share my familiarity here with friends.”
- Too cheerful to share your familiarity? Oh COME ON!

• Anyone else has hilarious examples of comments left in your spam folder? Share below! (please remove all links and no inappropriate words)
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Hey Clean Cut Media Readers,

During this thanksgiving holiday, I am very thankful to have YOU, the readers here on Clean Cut media. I am even more thankful for those of you who have started to engage the posts by commenting with your thoughts. I would hate for readers to miss out on the interesting comments and poll results on past postings. Some of the comments are very interesting and we would all benefit from hearing the thoughts of each of you! So please visit some of the past articles, check out the comments and polls and share your thoughts! As always be courteous or should I say – Clean Cut.

Most Commented Articles

Have you read some of the comments made by our readers? Most of the posts on Clean Cut Media end with open ended questions in the hopes that collectively we can discuss the influences of media and our culture. I truly hope we can get to a point where we can post up topics and it is the COMMUNITY that will create the “real” juicy content through the discussions and commentary. So help us out! If you find the article or a comment made by another user interesting, please let us know your thoughts!

Teenager Kills Mother, Shoots Father Over Halo 3
- The comments have been a bit one sided due to the influx of readers coming from Halo Forum sites. What are your thoughts? Agree or disagree?

Clean Family Friendly Movie Reviews & Rating
- Many users have contributed to this list. We wanted to create a list of family friendly movies so users can know what movies are safe both for themselves and their children. Please be as detailed as possible when you contribute!

Creativity: Amazing 3D Building Art
- The art postings on Clean Cut Media always brings out a flurry of comments expressing their awe and delight in what they’ve seen. Check all our 3D Chalk arts postings.

Movie Review: Watchmen Morality Review
- Lot of interesting takes on this movie. What are your thoughts? If you didn’t see the movie, it’s ok! Still give us your take!

AdBlock Plus: Blocks All Ads on the Internet
- Have you downloaded this awesome plug-in? Eliminates Ads altogether!

Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince Movie Review
- Too much emphasis on teen love? Is the message behind the film good? Give us your thoughts?

Polyamory Relationships & Cultural Subjectivity of Truth
- Again, heavy feedback from the Polyamory community. Word got out about this posting via twitter. Comments are mostly by Polyamory participants. Your thoughts?

Top 5 Polls

Which is your Favorite Street Art – 820+ Votes
Users voted on their favorite 3D Chalk Art piece. River Rafting & Coke Bottle have run away with this.

Do you use Facebook and/or MySpace – 630+ Votes
In this article, we discussed the growth of Facebook vs Myspace. This poll helped determine who uses MySpace and who uses Facebook. Facebook easily is the most popular.

What is the Most Amazing – 300+ Votes
Users again voted for the most amazing Chalk Art. Dive Plank edged out Batman and Robin!

Which 3D Building Art is Your Favorite – 280+ Votes
Users love these opinion polls! Which one was their favorite? The one I voted for, the building ripped open. Really incredible. Check it out.

Have sites like YouTube helped or hurt our culture – 70+ Votes
Has Youtube helped our culture by enhancing the proliferation of information? Or has it somewhat hurt our culture? See how the votes are panning out!

Most Tweeted – Follow us at @CleanCutMedia

Those who are interested in Social Media Marketing tend to follow this blog for the statistical summaries and commentaries. There is a lot of information out there and users have found it useful to find it all consolidated on a couple posts. “ReTweet” is something fairly new on this blog, so it hasn’t picked up just yet, but hopefully it will continue to grow in the future. See the list below!

Social Networks in Asia: Korea, Japan, China, India, Hong Kong, Singapore etc

YouTube Statistics – The Ultimate Time Suck

Polyamory Relationships & Cultural Subjectivity of Truth

Teenager Kills Mother, Shoots Father Over Halo 3

Twitter Statistics: Visitor Growth

Social Media Statistics Video – Growth & Impact

15 Beautiful HDR Photography Art

Most Visited Postings (excluding 3D & Social Media Articles)

Below are the most visited postings on Clean Cut Media this year. I’ve only linked the ones not linked above. Don’t want to link you out!

Movie Review: Watchmen Morality Review
Teenager Kills Mother, Shoots Father over Halo
Teens Sharing Nude Photos Online
- I really hope people are finding this article for the right reasons.
Influence of Media Advertising in our View of Life
- Pretty straightforward title. Very old post that started it all.
Israel Palestinians Media War
- Interesting post on the digital media war waged in the middle east.

Girl Self-Esteem Image Issues
- Great piece about Media’s affect on girl’s self image. Lots of Statistics.
Pro Anorexia Pro Ana Sites
- Discussion about Affects of Social Networks on Pro – Anorexia Groups.
Famous Manipulated Photos, Pre-Photoshop
- Take a look at famous pictures from history that were photoshoped for various purposes.

Hope that was helpful to help you navigate around the site. Please let us know which article was your favorite. Also please comment on the ones you find interesting and give us your take!

- Media Influence

Unless you are new here, I am certain you’ve seen the sudden theme change here on Clean Cut Media. We’ve gone with a more professional magazine look so people can better discover old articles and check out different categories. The old model was too “blog-like” making it hard for one to discover the many great articles here.

Please note the following…

• Many Bugs – I am not a programmer, so I am learning as I go making it very possible to find bugs and broken links during this transition. So bear with us!
• Advertising Slots – This theme has giant slots for advertising. I don’t know what I am going to do with those slots just yet. I may replace it with something else, or use them for personal use. One thing I did want to do to test how hard it is for a person to advertise using Google Adsense while weeding out the bad items. For those who don’t know, Google Adsense uses the context within the page to determine the most relevant ad. Well unfortunately when our articles talk about sex, anorexia, video games, among other things what ads will show? Is it even feasible for a person to be able to utilize adsense on their blog, what is the best way to go about it. I’ll be testing this and eventually will get around to writing about it. Meanwhile please alert me if you see any ads you deem inappropriate. info @ cleancutmedia.com. I am already taking major precautions while doing small tests at a time.

For the time being I’ve put up a note about donating to 30 hour famine. The money goes to feed the starving kids around the world. Consider donating! $30 feeds a child for an entire month. That’s a $1 a day. Anything will be appreciated.

Please let us know what you think about the new layout in the comment section below!

Clean Cut Media – Growing Media Influence

Last month there was turmoil here at Clean Cut Media. A bad coding test took the site down for a few hours. Unfortunately Google indexed the site during that period. The effects were immediate as we saw a full week of data at lower volumes. However, the site has rebounded nicely during the last week of May. With a new record pace, we easily made up what we lost the week before.

Mar: 12,859 Views
Apr: 16,008
May: 22,515

That makes one wonder, what if the site never went down? 25K? 30K?

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Top 10 Articles & Posts in May

In Order of Online Activity [Previous Rank]
Remember since this is for the month of May, it favors posts from early May…

(1) Creativity: 3D Chalk Art in the Streets Part I [1]

At the starting of June, there are 354 votes in the poll! Revisit to see how it is doing!

(2) Creativity: Amazing 3D Building Art [2]

If you haven’t seen this. The 3D art is amazing. I would probably walk into some of these walls accidently.

(3) Creativity: 3D Chalk Art in the Streets Part II [3]

The rest of the posts are crying foul as #1 drove this part II post into the #3 slot. What are they going to do to break this tight grip on the top 3?

(4) Israel Palestinians Media War on the Gaza Strip [8]

Flurry of activity has show this post up the charts. Can it break the top 3?

(5) Movie Review: Watchmen Morality Review [4]

Second consecutive month dropping one slot. Edged out by Israel by 37 views.

If you want to contribute a Movie Review please email us.
info [at] cleancutmedia.com.

(6) Influence of Media & Advertising in Our View of Life [NR]

The new darling of the list. Posted on April 29th, so got a full month of traffic to climb almost into the top 5.

(7) Selling Products or Selling Lifestyle? [9]

Moved into the charts last month. Climbed 2 slots. Will it be able to continue to rise?

(8) Youtube Statistics – The Ultimate Time Suck [NR]

Climbing in an out of rankings. After falling out last month, clawed its way back in.

(9) Facebook vs MySpace Statistics [9]

(10) Teens Sharing Nude Photos Online – Impact in Real Life Behavior [6]

Don’t ask what kind of keywords some people are finding this page. Hope they read the article. Shame on them.

Honorable Mention Girl Self-Esteem, Image Issues & Parents

- NR means Not Ranked. -

Hot Post of the Week –
Star Trek 2009 Movie – Themes Galore

Most Commented Last 7 Days
Unnaturally Beautiful Children – Image & Beauty

Fun Clean Cut Media Statistics Below

Top 10 Searches in February for Clean Cut Media

Major shakeup 4 thru 10!

(1) “youtube statistics” [1]
(2) “myspace statistics” [2]
(3) “myspace statistics 2009″ [3]
(4) “gracepoint fellowship church” [NR]
(5) “latest youtube statistics” [4]
(6) “youtube statistics 2009″ [NR]
(7) “facebook vs myspace statistics” [NR]
(8) “the chalk man artist” [NR]
(9) “clean cut media” [NR]
(10) “chalk man artist” [NR]

Fell out of Rankings
“asia popular social networking”
“britiansgottalent”
“impact of media on children”
“media influence statistics”
“myspace statistics 2008″
“statistics on media influence”

FUN FACT: We nearly doubled the # of pages a user views while cruising Clean Cut Media. Love it!

Where is the Traffic From?

We’ve had visitors from 130 Countries. Not as much excitement this month as the top 7 countries held their places!

RANK (vs. previous)
[1] United States (-)
[2] Canada (-)
[3] United Kingdom (-)
[4] India (+1)
[5] Australia (-1)
[6] Singapore (+1)
[7] Germany (+2)
[8] France (+7)
[9] Malaysia (-3)
[10] South Africa [NR]

Notables: China (12), Taiwan (34)
Dropped (prev rank): Turkey (8), Pakistan (10)

How about in the US
Highest # of Visits: California
Most Pageviews Per Visit: Montana (not much to do there huh? jk!)

Media Influence Searches

FUN LOVE:A little love to the #1 referring blog – Dis-Gracepoint Fellowship. Disgracepoint is a humor site hosted by Gracepoint Fellowship Church.

Refer to a posting you like or add us to your blogroll and maybe next month you’ll be in this slot! 8 of the top 20 referring sites are blogs!

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Much Love to all the Visitors.

Related posts:

1. Clean Cut Media – Growing Media Blog
2. Clean Cut Media – Feb Recap – Love for this Media Blog
3. Clean Cut Media – Rapid Rise

Clean Cut Media – Growing Media Blog

Last month we had a tremendous jump in pageviews taking Clean Cut Media over the 10,000 pageview mark. We were very excited, yet we wondered, could we possibly keep up this visiting rate? Last month we had some exceptional days and some good breaks. Would this be the month where we see growth stagnate or heaven forbid, regress?

Mar: 12,651
Apr: 15,952

Maybe next time, for it is not this month.

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Top 10 Articles & Posts in April

In Order of Online Activity [Previous Rank]

(1) Creativity: 3D Chalk Art in the Streets Part I [1]

One day this post will no longer bring in the traffic that it does, but as long as it does, we’ll take it!

(2) Creativity: Amazing 3D Building Art [2]

(3) Creativity: 3D Chalk Art in the Streets Part II [5]

Highest Riser of the Month!

(4) Movie Review: Watchmen Morality Review [3]

Movie Reviews continued to draw in many visitors. I’ve hoped to find some time to discuss some recent movies I’ve seen such as Monsters vs Aliens and Knowing. If you want to contribute a Movie Review please email us.
info [at] cleancutmedia.com.

(5) irl Self-Esteem, Image Issues & Parents [NR]

NR means Not Ranked. A new post rose up the charts! If you haven’t read it please take a look!

(6) Teens Sharing Nude Photos Online – Impact in Real Life Behavior [6]

Check out the shocking statistics in this post! Very disturbing trend.

(7) Facebook vs MySpace Statistics [8]

(8) Israel Palestinians Media War on the Gaza Strip [7]

(9) Selling Products or Selling Lifestyle? [NR]

A very old post given new life as it was linked from the most recent post Influence of Media & Advertising in Our View of Life

(10) Average Adult Watches an Hour of TV Ads a Day [NR]

Dropped from Rankings
(11) Youtube Statistics – The Ultimate Time Suck [9]

(14) Social networks in Asia – China, Korea, Japan, India [10]

(17) Teen Kills for Halo 3 [4]

Contribute! Get Involved!
We would love for the community to contribute content! Whether it be a full fledged article or tipping us on some great source or statistic, please let us know! Email Here

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Fun Clean Cut Media Statistics Below

Top 10 Searches in February for Clean Cut Media

(1) “youtube statistics”
(2) “myspace statistics”
(3) “myspace statistics 2009″
(4) “latest youtube statistics”
(5) “asia popular social networking”
(6) “britiansgottalent”
(7) “impact of media on children”
(8) “media influence statistics”
(9) “myspace statistics 2008″
(10) “statistics on media influence”

FUN FACT: In March, users came in through 3,037 different keyword combinations!

Where is the Traffic From?

We’ve had visitors from 122 Countries. Not as much excitement this month as the top 7 countries held their places!

RANK (vs. previous)
[1] United States (-)
[2] Canada (-)
[3] United Kingdom (-)
[4] Australia (-)
[5] India (-)
[6] Malaysia (-)
[7] Singapore (-)
[8] Turkey [NR]
[9] Germany (-1)
[10] Pakistan [NR]

Notables: China (13), France (15), Taiwan (47)
Dropped (prev rank): [18] Hong Kong (-9), [23] Philippines (-13)

Media Influence Searches

Search Engines: 46% [ex. Google, Yahoo, MSN]
Direct: 42% [Typed in "cleancutmedia.com]
Referring Sites: 11% [Other Websites]
Other: 1%: [ex. Gtalk]

FUN FACT:A little love to the #1 referring site (outside of Google) – Disgracepoint Fellowship. Disgracepoint is a humor site hosted by Gracepoint Fellowship Church. Thanks!

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Clean Cut Media Climbing the Ranks

Dumbfounded again. Pageviews (Growth). I am a very strong optimist but each month I still wonder how it could possibly grow anymore.

Jan: 2,504 Pageviews
Feb: 4,705 (88%)
Mar: 12,651 (169%)

Clean Cut Media Statistics Weekly

I expected some growth this month, but the incredible jump was unexpected. Clean Cut Media is starting to draw some attention by fellow bloggers and websites as we occasionally get emailed notes from similar sites. It’s also a good sign when other blogs link to your articles!

We were even approached for an acquisition! If you haven’t figured out, that was on April 1st. I was sent some personal startled notes from the regulars.

Top 10 Articles & Posts in March

In Order of Online Activity

(1) Creativity: 3D Chalk Art in the Streets Part I

Continues to dominate this top spot. Driver of the most new visitors looking for beautiful artwork.

(2) Creativity: Amazing 3D Building Art

(3) Movie Review: Watchmen Morality Review

Attracted the most discussion considering Watchmen was one of the bigger movies in the past few months. Contribute your thoughts!

(4) Teen Kills for Halo 3

Huge lift after being linked from a Halo 3 Gaming Forum. The Gaming community are clearly upset that Halo is being linked to this death, quickly to question at the youth involved.

(5) Creativity: 3D Chalk Art in the Streets Part II

(6) Teens Sharing Nude Photos Online – Impact in Real Life Behavior

Still one of the more shocking statistics posted on Clean Cut Media.

(7) Israel Palestinians Media War on the Gaza Strip

(8) Facebook vs MySpace Statistics

(9) Youtube Statistics – The Ultimate Time Suck

(10) Social networks in Asia – China, Korea, Japan, India

Contribute Your Own Content
If you would like to contribute your own articles media influence, social issues, movie reviews, or anything else, please feel free to submit to clean cut media and maybe it’ll appear as a post! Other websites can can contribute their content, I’ll happily give link reference at the end of the post.Email Here

Fun Clean Cut Media Statistics Below

Top 10 Searches in February for Clean Cut Media

(1) “youtube statistics”
(2) “myspace statistics”
(3) “myspace statistics 2009″
(4) “latest youtube statistics”
(5) “3d chalk art”
(6) “impact of media on children”
(7) “watchmen movie nudity”
(8) “chalk man artist”
(9) “watchmen nudity”
(10) “3d building art”

FUN FACT: In March, users came in through 2,591 different keyword combinations!

Where is the Traffic From?

We’ve had visitors from 112 Countries. Canada after taking 2nd from United Kingdom successfully held it’s spot creating some cushion this month. No movement in the top 5. Singapore took the largest drop as we welcome Germany and Hong Kong into the top10!

RANK (vs. previous)
[1] United States (-)
[2] Canada (-)
[3] United Kingdom (-)
[4] Australia (-)
[5] India (-)
[6] Malaysia (+1)
[7] Singapore (+1)
[8] Germany (NR)
[9] Hong Kong (NR)
[10] Philippines (-4)

Notables: France (11), Taiwan (14), China (18)
Dropped (prev rank): Serbia (T-56), Mexico (26)

Media Influence Searches

Search Engines: 45% [ex. Google, Yahoo, MSN]
Direct: 36% [Type in "cleancutmedia.com]
Referring Sites: 18% [Other Websites]
Other: 1%: [ex. Gtalk]

Want more of a particular topic? Have ideas for articles or requests? Want to submit your own topic and opinion? Let us know below!

Related posts:

1. Clean Cut Media – Growing Media Blog
2. Clean Cut Media – Feb Recap – Love for this Media Blog
3. Media Influence Dips then Roars

Clean Cut Media Torn Heart

Hello Clean Cut Media Visitors!

What most of you are not aware is the fact that Clean Cut Media has been growing at a ridiculous rate. See the numbers for itself.

Jan: 2,509 Pageviews
Feb: 4,700 Pageviews
(87% Growth)
Mar: 12,651 Pageviews
(169% Growth)

We will post more exciting details as we do in the beginning of every month.

However considering the growth…

Family Social Advocacy Site Approaches Clean Cut Media
I’ve been in talks with a family/social advocacy site about them potentially acquiring this blog and domain. So far the money on the table is quite a large sum (think a couple zeros). It is a reasonable amount considering a good domain name alone with nothing on it can go from anywhere from $500 to $50,000. A site that already is built out and have followers like Clean Cut Media, the price is much higher. They have also offered to keep me on board and pay me (not much but a decent rate) to help maintain the blog and contribute articles.

Torn – What should Clean Cut Media Do?
This is part of the reason the posts has been slower than usual. I am torn. By selling the blog my thoughts and hopes of what I wanted to build this site into could go into smoke if the owners want to take a different route. You may think, “just sell it and build a new one with the money!” But it’s really hard to find a good domain name without a thousand hyphens (clean-cut-media.com) and it’s always difficult to build a following from scratch. What we have here is special. That is why people are willing to pay to acquire one that is already established and growing.

Anyhow wanted to let the community know of my current plight. What do you think?

Those who clicked into the posting truly care. All 10 of you. Just kidding. This is a historic day for Clean Cut Media. Better jot down the date.

• What would you do in such a situation?

Related posts:

1. Clean Cut Media – Feb Recap – Love for this Media Blog
2. Clean Cut Media – Rapid Rise
3. Clean Cut Media – Jan Recap – New Year, New People

Clean Cut Media Getting Some Love

I’ll be frank. Every month I wonder, how in the world will the traffic grow over the previous month. January was pretty solid, how am I going to attract new users? Well despite the short month, internet users showed Clean Cut Media some love this past February. Recorded record day, record week, record month. Clean Cut Media continues to grow at a rapid pace. Pictures are worth a thousand words.

Media Statistics - Clean Cut Media

For the 88% of you who are new visitors to the site, during the first few days of the month I review the site growth and review the top postings. This is a way of allowing the community members to share in the growing community.

Feb Growth: Up 88% from Jan
Feb Pageviews: 4,705 Pageviews

Top 5 Articles & Posts in Feb

In Order of Pageview Activity

There was a clear winner. The Creativity 3D Chalk Art post drew a lot of visitors this month as our images were picked up by Google Image and is now officially showing as the #1 picture on the page #1 for both web searches and image searches. It is my hope that many come in, enjoy the beautiful artwork but also browse around and find the rest of the media centric entries informative and useful.

Note that the data is for Feb, so postings earlier in the month have a clear advantage in these rankings versus ones posted few days ago.

(1) Creativity: 3D Chalk Art in the Streets Part I
(2) Creativity: Distorted Typography
(3) Israel & Palestinian’s Media War on the Gaza Strip
(4) Facebook vs MySpace Statistics
(5) Creativity: 3D Chalk Art in the Streets Part II

Just out of the top 5 were social issue articles such as Teen Kills for Halo 3, Sex Trafficking, Media Impact on Children, and Teen Media Depression

As noted last month, if you want to write your own articles on social issues, movie reviews, or anything else, please feel free to submit to clean cut media and maybe it’ll appear as a post! Email Here

Fun Clean Cut Media Statistics Below

Top 10 Searches in February for Clean Cut Media

(1) “Chalk Art”
(2) “3D Chalk Art”
(3) “Typography”
(4) “3D Chalk”
(5) “MySpace Statistics 2009″
(6) “Slow Fade Meaning”
(7) “MySpace Statistic”
(8) “YouTube Statistics”
(9) “Impact of Media on children”
(10) “Facebook vs MySpace Statistics”

FUN FACT: 52% of users use internet explorer, 34% uses firefox, 10% uses Safari and 3% from Chrome!

Where is the Traffic From?

We’ve had visitors from 92 Countries. Canada & United Kingdom in a close battle for 2nd.

RANK (vs. previous)
[1] United States (-)
[2] Canada (+1)
[3] United Kingdom (-1)
[4] Australia (+2)
[5] India (-1)
[6] Philippines (-)
[7] Malaysia (+2)
[8] Singapore (-1)
[9] Serbia (New)
[10] Mexico (New)

Notables: Germany (11), China (17)
Dropped (prev rank): Germany (T-9), New England (T-9), Belgium (T-9)

Media Influence Searches

Search Engines: 57%  [ex. Google, Yahoo, MSN]
Direct: 26%  [Type in "cleancutmedia.com]
Referring Sites: 15%  [Other Websites]
Other: 2%:  [ex. Gtalk]

February Media Post Recap

February posts were mostly focused on social issues.

Feb 3: Clean Cut Media: January Media Recap
Feb 5: Teen Media Consumption Associated with Depression Symptoms
Feb 7: Teenager Kills Mother, Shoots Father Over Halo 3
Feb 9: Creativity: 3D Chalk Art in the Streets Part II
Feb 11: Are Superbowl Ads Not Good for Kids?
Feb 13: Social Media effects on Law and the Legal System
Feb 15: Bad Economy? Not for Video Gaming!
Feb 18: Youtube Statistics – The Ultimate Time Suck
Feb 19: Child Online Protection Act Struck Down Again
Feb 20: Contest: Free Divorce for Valentines Day
Feb 23: Teens Sharing Nude Photos Online – Impact in Real Life Behavior
Feb 26: The Secret Life of the American Teenager – Sex Obsessed ABC “Family Channel”

Want more of a particular topic? Have ideas for articles or requests? Want to submit your own topic and opinion? Let us know below!

Related posts:

1. Clean Cut Media – Growing Media Blog
2. Clean Cut Media – Jan Recap – New Year, New People
3. Clean Cut Media – Rapid Rise

Clean Cut Media off to the Races

With the new 2009 year, comes hopefully many new visitors to Clean Cut Media. If this is your first time on this site, Welcome!

In the beginning of each month I review the growth of the site and review the top postings. This is a way of allowing the community members to share in the growth of this website.

Jan Growth: Up 21% from Dec
Jan Pageviews: 2,500 Pageviews

Top Articles & Posts in Jan

In Order of Pageview Activity

Movie Reviews seems to continue to draw the most visitors. Though I would love to review new movies, I unfortunately don’t watch enough movies! If you have seen a movie and have something you want to share with the community please submit them and maybe it’ll appear as a post! You can contact Clean Cut Media by emailing info@cleancutmedia.com.

Movie Review: Seven Pounds – Will Smith
Movie Review: Twilight – Love Conquers All
Israel & Palestinian’s Media War on the Gaza Strip
Media Influence on the Perception of the Financial Crisis. Who is to Blame?
Sex Trafficking – Where is the News Coverage?
Casting Crow – Slow Fade
Creativity: Electrabel – Happy New Year – Candle Light

Past Week Top Postings:
Creativity: Distorted Typography

Creativity: 3D Chalk Art in the Streets Part I

Both of these posts cover 3D art. Both posts have awesome pictures of art painted or “chalked” on the concrete surfaces so that when standing from the right angle everything jumps out in 3D. Check them out!

Fun Clean Cut Media Information & Statistics Below

Top Searches in December for Clean Cut Media

“Media Influence”
“Media’s Influence on our Finances”
“Seven Pounds starring Will Smith”
“Clean Cut Media”
“Typography”
“Twilight Abstinence Message”
“Athletes in Commercials”
“Effect of Media on our Perception of Beauty”
“Casting Crowns Slow Fade Meaning”
“Who Regulates the Media”
“Media Influences our Teens”
“Sex Influence Media Statistic

FUN FACT: 92.67% of Visits in January were New Visitors who have never been on Clean Cut Media!

Where is the Traffic From?

We’ve had visitors from 81 Countries.

Clean Cut Media World Coverage

RANK (vs. previous)
[1] United States (-)
[2] United Kingdom (+1)
[3] Canada (-1)
[4] India (-)
[5] Australia (+1)
[6] Philippines (+4)
[7] Singapore (+2)
[8] Lebanon (New)
[T-9] Germany (New)
[T-9] New Zealand (New)
[T-9] Malaysia (New)
[T-9] Belgium (New)

Dropped (prev rank): China (5), Taiwan (7), Mexico (8)

What happened to the China? Dropped to 13th! Stupid BCS!

FUN FACT: Considering one of the articles discussed Israel vs Palestinian Media – one fun fact to note is that the site had 6 visitors from Israel peruse through Clean Cut Media.

Media Influence Searches

 
Search Engines: 71.6%
Referring Sites: 17.9%
Direct: 10.5%

January Media Post Recap

A new record numbers of Media Posts.

Jan 2: Clean Cut Media: January Media Recap
Jan 4: Sex Trafficking – Where is the News Coverage?
Jan 7: Creativity: Electrabel – Happy New Year – Candle Light
Jan 11: Israel & Palestinian’s Media War on the Gaza Strip
Jan 13: Health Warning Labels for Video Games – Congressman
Jan 15: Subscribe to Clean Cut Media Blog Comments
Jan 16: Sex Trafficking Victims – The Facts
Jan 18: Downloading TV and Watching Video Online Biggest Gainers in 2008
Jan 19: Creativity: Powerful, Slow Motion Social Service TV Commercial Videos
Jan 21: Should Government Legislate Morality? Is Adultery a Crime?
Jan 25: Is Video Game Addiction a Serious Problem?
Jan 27: Online Gamers in China must Register with Real Names
Jan 27: Creativity: Superbowl TV Commercials
Jan 30: Creativity: 3D Chalk Art in the Streets Part I

Want more of a particular topic? Have ideas for articles or requests? Want to submit your own topic and opinion? Comment below! Also vote on our poll above!

Related posts:

1. Clean Cut Media – Feb Recap – Love for this Media Blog
2. Clean Cut Media: December Media Recap
3. Clean Cut Media – Rapid Rise

Hello Blog Readers,

I wanted to let you know of a small added feature. You can now subscribe to comments.

What does this mean?

It means if you find a Clean Cut Media article really interesting you can subscribe to the comments so that whenever a comment is made it will be forwarded to you via email. This is especially useful for those who make a comment and want to see other people’s responses to your own comments. It is common that a discussion could start due to some topic generated right in the comments section. See the picture below.

Clean Cut Media Comment Discussion

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If you have any ideas on what topics this blog should write about or what would make this blog more engaging or useful please leave a comment below… then subscribe!

Related Topics:
December Recap
What are RSS Feeds?

Posts with the Most Comments on Clean Cut Media:
Movie Review: Seven Pounds Starring Will Smith
Movie Review: Twilight

Happy New Year!
Whether you are a regular visitor or landed on this blog for the first time, we are glad you are here as we transition into 2009! December saw records high and the launch of the Viewpoint Series. Don’t forget to bookmark this page and come back!

Month after Month – Clean Cut Traffic
Despite the holiday season where vacations and traveling leads to a drop in overall traffic volume, Clean Cut Media continues to buck the trends and break all kinds of records. A strong start of the month helped balance out the slow holiday season.

Dec Growth: Up 27% from Nov
Dec Pageviews: Pageviews came to about 2,200, meaning the traffic more than doubled since October.

Top Articles & Posts in Dec
Movie Review: Twilight – Love Conquers All
Powerful Impact of Media on Children
Influence of TV Satire on Political Identities – Sarah Palin SNL
Teen Kills Self on JustinTV with 185 Witnesses
Creativity: Leave Nothing Nike Commercials
Movie Review: High School Musical 3

Past Week Top Post: Movie Review: Seven Pounds – Will Smith
This post is more than just a review, but a discussion about a very important moral topic. Can’t note the topic here because it would be a spoiler! Visit the link to read about it!

Fun Clean Cut Media Information & Statistics Below

Top Searches in December for Clean Cut Media
“Twilight Abstinence Message”
“Media Influences Statistics”
“Media Influence”
“How Far the Media Influence our Opinion”
“Teen Kills Self on Justin.TV Video”
“Advertising – Selling a Lifestyle”
“Media Influence on Children”

FUN FACT: Amidst Clean Cut Media’s keyword list with multiple searches is “Josh Wang, Berkeley”, one of our commenter. Why? I don’t know. Pretty popular guy. But it’s kinda creepy. How come no one searches my name? I’m not jealous.

Where is the Traffic From?
We’ve had visitors from 85 Countries with United States, Canada and United Kingdom 1,2 and 3. Makes sense.

Question: Guess which countries come next? [In order of visits]

Answer: India, China, Australia, Taiwan, Mexico, Singapore, Philippines

FUN FACT: Sample of aome of the more unique countries sending Visitors – Iran, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Nepal, Syria, Trinidad – It’s like Olympics all over again!

Media Influence Searches
Search Engines: 77.5% (2008: 59%)
Referring Sites: 12.5% (2008: 24%)
Direct: 10% (17%)

More searches are coming directly from the search engines now than before. A very good sign that the blog is appearing for various topics of discussion.

December Media Post Recap
Dec 3: Clean Cut Media: November Media Recap
Dec 8: Creativity: Nokia N96 – Bruce Lee Ping Pong Nun Chuck Commercial
Dec 11: Viewpoint: Women & Modesty – Christian Dilemma
Dec 14: Creativity: Great TV Commercial Series & Athletes – MasterCard & NBA
Dec 16: Creativity: Apple & Nintendo Creative Game Ads
Dec 18: Bible Illuminated: The Book New Testament
Dec 21: Proposition 8: The Musical – Lies & Intolerance by Who?
Dec 24: Media Influence on Perception of the Financial Crisis. Who is to Blame?
Dec 30: Movie Review: Seven Pounds starring Will Smith

Reviewing Old Posts
If you haven’t checked out these posts, I recommend you do. Some additional favorites to remember in 2008.
Movie Review: Seven Pounds – Will Smith
- Includes Discussion About Suicide
Movie Review: Twilight – Love Conquers All
Women & Modesty – Christian Dilemma
Casting Crown – Slow Fade: Mistakes, Regrets
- Shows Message about the danger of small compromises.
Nickelback – Savin’ Me Music Video
- Makes you think about Life & Death. Great Video.
Black Hole Short Film
Toshiba Timesculpture Advertisement Video

If you like any of the postings, please contribute with your opinions! Even a small note of encouragement is always nice.

Here’s to 2009!

Related posts:

1. Clean Cut Media – Jan Recap – New Year, New People
2. Clean Cut Media – Feb Recap – Love for this Media Blog
3. Clean Cut Media – Growing Media Blog

Another Month in Clean Cut Media. Another record in terms of traffic. As always I want everyone to share in this communities growth! I appreciate all the old contributing members as well as the new. Please keep returning here, posting comments and promoting discussion. Even the smallest of comments are greatly appreciated.

Record Month
November just like October was a record month in terms of pageviews at about 1750 pageviews. That is about an 80% growth from October and 150% more then September. “Influence of TV SNL Satire on Political Identity – Sarah Palin 2008″ continues to draw the most traffic while new November Posts “Movie Review: High School Musical 3 – The Message”, “Creativity: Toshiba Timesculpture Advertisement Video”, and “Movie Review: Twilight, Love Conquers All?” rose up the charts following not too far behind.

The hope is that old posts continue to attract visitors while new posts dominate the new traffic. So far so good.

Searching for Clean Cut Media in Nov
As someone who works in the online marketing fields, these numbers are fun to follow. Hope you find it interesting too. How do people find Clean Cut Media anyway?

Searches: 65%
Referrering Websites: 20%
Direct (typing the URL): 15%

81% of visitors were brand new visitors! Awesome.

Example Top Searches
“media influence”
“media influence statistics”
“influence of media on culture”
“media influence on children”
“influence of the media on children”
“media vs movie influence”
“why is the media influence so powerful”
“online video teen culture media”
“don’t vote campaign”

It is my hope to continue to draw people who type in such important topics.

November Media Post Recap
Nov 1: Clean Cut Media: October Recap – Watch us Grow
Nov 4: 5.3 Billion Spend on Federal Political Candidiates
Nov 7: Movie Review: High School Musical 3 – The Message
** Most Pageviews
Nov 11: Powerful Impact of Media on Children
Nov 17: Creativity: Toshiba Timesculpture Advertisement Video
Nov 21: Black Hole Short Film – Underestimating the Subtle Power of Desire
Nov 23: Teen Kills Self on Justin.tv with 185 Witnesses
Nov 29: Movie Review: Twilight, Love Conquers All?

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