Random: It’s Amazing What a Bit of Snow Can Do
by Lee on Feb.19, 2009, under Random
This post is for Sunday 15th February, 2009
Quite a major piece of news over the last week or so has been the amount of snow we have received here in the UK.
I jumped on the band wagon and made a few extra posts on my blog. Generally they were of two types:
- Updates on the university being open / closed
- Photos of the snow
The reason for the universty updates was that originally, the university was being quite slow to update its website, so I was trying to get everything into one place. Due to my involvement in things like The Twang and The reFresh fair, I was finding the status of these out before they were generally being publicised.
The photos of the snow was because at a time liek this, one of the first things I do is grab my camera and I fancied sharing the photos I’d taken, not only to my friends on Facebook, but also to a wider audience.
However, I wasn’t expecting the impact these posts had on my blog’s stats.
Just from the few posts I made, I started attracting a lot of page views from people looking for different information – whether it was photos of Bath in the snow, or information on whether the university was open.
It took my page views from an average of about 8 a day, to up to 145 at one stage!
Page Views When The Snow Posts Were Made
The graph quite nicely illustrates how the number of page view started to grow as the posts were first published, with them dropping off when the snow left the main news.
My blog was picking up quite a few page views from various snow related search terms:
- snow in bath
- snow in bath uk
- snow in bath 2009
- bath university snow pictures
and many more….
I personally quite look forward to the next mainstream topic I can post about to get some more page views. Hopefully by bringing some people over for the first time, they’ll continue to visit if they find something that interests them (for example, if they’re looking for university of bath snow pictures, they may be interested in my posts about university).
Missed my posts about the snow? They can be all found here, or are:
- Snow In Bath (when the snow started) – 2nd February 2009
- University of Bath Closed – 5th February 2009
- Snow Day in Bath (Photos from around the Royal Crescent) – 5th February 2009
- University of Bath Closing (Friday) – 6th February 2009
- Snow on University of Bath Campus (Photos) – 8th February 2009
February 24th, 2009 on 4:46 am
Thank you!