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March 31, 2006
Collecting the History of A Big Surprise (cont'd)
The persistent flogging of the GMU Basketball Digital Memory Bank is starting to pay off. As of 6:00 pm today (a little more than 24 hours since the site went live), the site has logged over 1,400 unique visitors and more than 40,000 hits. One hundred digital objects have already been deposited in this collect-history-as-it's-happening archive.
The GoogleBot crawled the site around 3:00 today, so it should start showing up in Google searches before much longer, at which point we can expect a good deal more traffic. And for reasons unknown, someone in Andorra is checking out the site. See what you learn when you have good log tracking?
At this point, much of the promotion is good old fashioned marketing--handing out flyers, calling friends and relatives, pestering students. As the traffic begins to build, it will be interesting to see how many people find their way to the site. One would expect that if GMU defeats Florida on Saturday night that the traffic will jump significantly. I also suspect that within a month, this same traffic will die off until the basketball season starts up again next fall.
Posted by mills at March 31, 2006 05:59 PM