Analysis - by Patrick Thornton on Monday, December 22, 2008 18:34 - 1 Comment
DISD blog doubles traffic expectations in first year
Months ago Kent Fischer told me that he expected the DISD blog that he and Tawnell Hobbs run to get between 500,000 and 750,000 page views in its first year.
That estimate has turned out to be wildly wrong. The DISD blog already has about 1,500,000 page views for the year, and traffic has been increasing steadily in the second half of this year. Those are pretty impressive first-year numbers for a blog dedicated to the Dallas Independent School District. Both Fischer and Hobbs also write print stories as well.
The blog has picked up considerable steam ever since a financial crisis broke out in the school district, and Fischer and Hobbs provided incredible, in-depth coverage of the crisis. Timing can have a large impact on blog traffic. Getting ahead of big stories is a great way to build traffic and use loyalty.
The DISD blog is a great example of harnessing the Web to provide better coverage.
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