In a surprise, Gannett Blog has climbed into the upper ranks of all blogs -- not just news media industry sites -- according to new Google Analytics data, and the industry's most recent research. This site now gets well over 100,000 monthly page views, which would rank it in the top 8% of all blogs, according to Technorati's State of the Blogosphere 2008. Plus, the site receives more than 10,000 monthly unique visitors, ranking it in the top 12%.[Graphic: Technorati]
Congrats Jim on creating a forum and breaking news on our mutual interest.
ReplyDeleteGannett could take a lesson on how to build an organic community on the web!
Love the blog or hate it---agree or disagree with what's written--- something makes people come here. Could it be credibility?
ReplyDeleteYou need to get better advertising going Jim! Make that money!
ReplyDeleteYeah! Unobtrusive, quick loading, old school ads - just none of those popup/pulldown/trash_the_site kind of ads that Gannett runs please.
ReplyDeleteWas there a time way back when you weren't getting much traffic that you thought about quitting? If so, what kept you going?
ReplyDelete12:50 pm: I have never thought about quitting.
ReplyDeleteToo sweet!
ReplyDeleteAlways thought this place was something special.
Clearly, I'm not alone.
@12:09 "Gannett could take a lesson on how to build an organic community on the web!"
ReplyDeleteBut Gannett's got that organic community thing cornered! A memo from a while back:
"Tomorrow at 2 p.m. EST, Gannett Digital and The Journal News/LoHud.com will co-present the latest 60-minute Mini-Summit, Webcast live from White Plains, N.Y. I invite you to check it out by tuning in to http://www.gannettdigital.com/extranet or http://www.LoHud.com/interactivity at that hour.
You will hear from both local and corporate executives envisioning how we might build organic online communities through blogging networks, microsites, search analysis, algorithms, and other tools. We'll explore how emerging technologies might allow us to cultivate many communities around local passion topics, and how we might earn revenue in new ways. This discussion will link both to innovations you'll see in Westchester and forward, placing it in context with the big forces that are re-shaping - and reinforcing - our role as the primary online source of local news and advertising."
We'll throw buzzwords against the wall and see what sticks. Algorithms! Hah!
Proof that if you give news, the people will come. Hmmm, d'ya thank the Crystal Towers might change course and put news back in the newspapers after realizing this basic truth?
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ReplyDeleteAsk not what you can do for your readers, but what they can do for you! This training makes sense if you consider Gannet's plan to deliver audiences to advertisers and marketers.
2:11 PM - I'm a programmer and while reading that I hit the word "algorithms" and said to myself, "WTF?" :)
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