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Over 50,000 Visits in March

Traffic Doubled in Nine Months
Editorial Staff

In March 2002, a total of 52,945 visits were made to acupuncturetoday.com. This marked the first time the site has received more than 50,000 visits in one month, and amounted to more than double the number of visits made to the site in June 2001, the first month acupuncturetoday.com began tracking statistics for site visits and other information.

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July 2002
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