Traffic to blog pages at the top 10 newspaper sites jumped 210 percent in December compared to the same month in 2005. Moreover, blogs garnered 13 percent of all traffic to the sites during the month, compared to only 4 percent in December 2005, according to findings released Wednesday by Nielsen//NetRatings, a media and market research firm based in New York City. Nielsen reported that the top online newspaper sites had 29.9 million unique visitors in December 2006, compared to 27.4 million in December 2005, or an increase of 9 percent.
Newspaper Blogs: ‘Constant, Instantaneous Feedback’
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. January 19, 2007 04:00 AMTraffic to blog pages at the top 10 newspaper sites jumped 210 percent in December compared to the same month in 2005. Moreover, blogs garnered 13 percent of all traffic to the sites during the month, compared to only 4 percent in December 2005, according to findings released Wednesday by Nielsen//NetRatings, a media and market research firm based in New York City. Nielsen reported that the top online newspaper sites had 29.9 million unique visitors in December 2006, compared to 27.4 million in December 2005, or an increase of 9 percent.