Counif using dates

So I am trying to use a countif function with dates. So I need to count up by month for example every time January 14 then February 14 and so on, This will also span multiple years.

Then I need to use a countifs to go by month and then by a value.

=Countif(C:C,">=1/1/2014)-countif(C:C,">=2/1/2014") is what I have now, I was just wondering if there was a way to stream line the process to make using countifs possible in the next column

I found another way to do the first part that I need the formula looks like this
=SUMPRODUCT((TEXT($C$2:$C$65489,"mm-yyyy")="01-2014")*1

Now I need to use a countifs to include if in C the date is any time in January and if in G the value is 1