Is my blog broken?
(Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009)
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Be first
(Thursday, March 26th, 2009)
Being the first to break a story is often quite positive for your web site or your blog. Let’s just take the exampl eof my own YLovePhoto.com web site. A few days ago I happened to be among the first two or three web sites in the world to have early information about the arrival of the Canon EOS 500D camera (eagerly expected SLR camera for the most cost conscious photographers).
Even if I happened to be blogging two posts about this issue around 3am, this had a quite positive impact on the activity. It brought a sudden doubling of the usual visits (from 500+ daily visits to a peak of 1100+ visits).
Canon EOS 500D impact on YLovePhoto.com visits
This is exactly what must be reproduced quite regularly in order to both attract new visitors and keep the old ones interested. Most of the increases of this web site visits in the past year have been related to the coverage of news events, photo fairs and camera launches. Even if the web site is not news only (it has plenty of other issues that I hope will glue the visitors and keep them returning), it’s clear that the impact of newsworthy posts is huge.
