Saturday Two-Pack: Gratefulness Edition 11/5/11

by Caleb Rutherford on Nov 5, 2011 12:44 PM EDT in Saturday Six Packs

What? 4 of them are missing? I blame Kash

This will be short and sweet because, well, it will be.

Two things for you all today. First, the Falcons are whooping UGA and Tech in TV ratings. That's actually really interesting. The worst Falcons game was on par with UGA v. UF, which is one of the biggest college games every year. I thought it was cool. The Falcons are really catching on around the ATL.

Second, a quick personal story for you all. Dave has shown his appreciation to you guys, but I wanted to take it a little farther. I'm in a Sports Management class, where I study all kinds of things related to sports, such as marketing, financing, management positions, etc.

Part of the class is to subscribe to Sports Business Journal, which is essentially a weekly magazine talking about the business aspect of sports. The magazine recently talked about independent sports blogs and sports blogs as a whole. SB Nation, the mother site of this blog, was the 13th most visited site of all the sports sites for the month of August, which includes Yahoo! Sports, ESPN, CBS, etc.

Here's a link. You may not be able to read it because I believe it's subscriber only, but there it is.

Why is this relevant to anything? In the past year, SB Nation's visitors have increased by 68%, compared to only 14% for Bleacher Report and 26% for Big Lead Sports, the other independent sports site.

The continued growth of this site would not be possible without you guys, our readers/fellow fans, and I personally would like to send out my heartfelt gratitude to all of you, even if we don't always get along. Keep spreading the word around so we can keep growing as a family. And we'll do what we can here to keep the awesomeness flowing on this site. Thanks guys!

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Loving the increased traffic to SBNation

As a long time reader who joined late last year, it’s definitely always great to see what others think. Talking to everyday fans really is rewarding and eye opening. Just thanking everyone on all the SBNation sites, but especially the Falcoholic, for allowing me to participate in a great community. Thanks to Dave, Caleb, James, Jason, Jeanna and Adam for running such a great and well modded site.

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by Turner_The_Burner on Nov 5, 2011 1:05 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

yep me also

by JT131 on Nov 5, 2011 1:49 PM EDT reply actions

nice post caleb

by Botchelism on Nov 5, 2011 2:16 PM EDT reply actions

Thank you. O'mighty One's!

My favorite site.

by Grey Rider on Nov 5, 2011 2:23 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

we may not have access

to those stats for the whole SB Nation, but the section that deals with Falcons and Falcons fans is definitely growing in popularity! this is the third year that I’m an active visitor of Falcoholic, and every year I see new “faces” and new contributors.

but Caleb, I’d dare to challenge the importance of traffic as a stat to measure popularity of this website. since you’re taking Sports Management, you’ll probably learn a great deal about methods to improve traffic on sports (or any other) websites – but you probably know a lot already. Web 2.0 and user generated content created new opportunities for websites to boost traffic, and the important component of this process is the moderator. He or she can generate huge traffic stats by keeping controversy in the air and by letting people take it beyond the line (ESPN must have had handsome numbers couple of weeks ago by setting up a special section devoted to Roddy White vs Suh). I’m glad this Dave and all the contributors are achieving this blog’s popularity without using all those tricks, and by keeping the atmosphere of this blog healthy.

Atlanta Falcons fan in Moscow, Russia

by Gemini-RU on Nov 5, 2011 2:51 PM EDT reply actions

Here here! The moderators keeping things decent here

is why this is by far my favorite sport site.

by LuvGems on Nov 5, 2011 4:16 PM EDT up reply actions

Yahoo is the most popular sports site based on the numbers.

It’s not even close, but you mention controversy, Yahoo likes to post things before reading the entire story.

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by Caleb Rutherford on Nov 5, 2011 7:00 PM EDT up reply actions

U, Dave, James, Jason and Adam make it happen. My only regret is not seeking this out via Google search the moment I realized I was a falcons fan. Now in a falcoholic thanks to the passion and hard work of you all

One day....

by Kashberry on Nov 5, 2011 4:49 PM EDT reply actions