Happy Birthday to The Suburban Times
Posted on July 5, 2010Happy 5th Birthday to The Suburban Times. On July 5, 2005 I wrote about "Our Plan". The next day I wrote, "Welcome to The Suburban Times". Reading back through those two posts, I was a bit nostalgic (is that possible after just 5 years?) and a bit pleased. You see, I've stuck pretty close to the original plan. Define the area (geographic in this case), and provide a clearinghouse for content that is hard and/or tedious to find otherwise. This was never meant to be MY newspaper. This is OUR newspaper. 99% (or so) of the content is user generated, and that's exactly how I plan to keep it.
While writing this birthday note to myself, I thought I would take a look back at the last 12 months, to see how far we've come. In June 2010 we hosted 10,769 visits to our websites (up 60% from June 2009) from 6,569 visitors (up 56% from June 2009). In total, those visitors looked at 17,071 pages (up 53% from June 2009). [If you care, see our Google Analytics report below.]
Another way readers interact with our content is via our email edition. This is a free delivery tool (consistent with "Our Plan"). At the end of June 2010, we delivered email's to 1,617 subscribers (compared to 1,487 in June 2009). While only an 8% increase, more than 40% of every email edition is opened by a reader. The industry average is 18%. Needless to say, I am quite pleased.
So, THANK YOU to our advertisers, readers and contributors for the last five years. I look forward to helping everyone share the myriad events and activities in our community.
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July 6th, 2010 at 8:05 am
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