Jan
15
2010

Haiti Earthquake Relief – News Sites are Major Traffic Driver

Posted by under Consumer Behavior, Traffic Acquisition

With the devastating earthquake in Haiti on Tuesday, you would expect that traffic to charitable websites would register an increase. The chart below shows daily visits to the top 325 sites in our Community – Humanitarian websites.
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While search continues to be the #1 driver of traffic to charitable websites, news websites registered the greatest increase as a source of traffic.
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And which news sites were the top contributors of traffic on the days following the tragedy; Drudge Report 3.6%, ABCnews.com 0.2% and MSNBC 0.14%.

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    • Colesky
    • January 16th, 2010

    That’s great and all that people are contributing to the relief fund, but everyone beware of scams! Don’t click on un solicited links in emails, etc… just be smart about it. It’s a good way to get your system infected or to get swindled.

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