Ultra Adventures is Five Years Old
Last week marked the five-year anniversary of ncultra.org. There are 695 articles posted (not including this one). Some day when you are bored you might want to browse some of the past articles. There are 488 registered users.
These days the site averages around 150 unique visits per day and 1800 page loads. Before google indexed blogs, all the traffic was generated by word-of-mouth. Anita Finkle must have personally told 200 people about this web site. For the first three years I never did anything to market the site or to drive traffic to it. To date the extent of all site promotion is registering the site with technorati and enabling Google Analytics.
With all the search-driven traffic these days, the site still gets a huge percentage of its visitors from links residing on running web sites and individual blogs. Although most of the articles are by me, the focus of ncultra.org is on the North Carolina ultrarunning community, with a measure of content on neighboring states. And there are quite a few articles written by others. I encourage anyone to contribute an article at any time, provided it is focused on ultrarunning, adventure running, or trail running.
The first five folks to register as site users are Matt Kirk, Steve Hoge, Quatro Hubbard, Mark Long, and Scott Brockmeier.
These days the site averages around 150 unique visits per day and 1800 page loads. Before google indexed blogs, all the traffic was generated by word-of-mouth. Anita Finkle must have personally told 200 people about this web site. For the first three years I never did anything to market the site or to drive traffic to it. To date the extent of all site promotion is registering the site with technorati and enabling Google Analytics.
With all the search-driven traffic these days, the site still gets a huge percentage of its visitors from links residing on running web sites and individual blogs. Although most of the articles are by me, the focus of ncultra.org is on the North Carolina ultrarunning community, with a measure of content on neighboring states. And there are quite a few articles written by others. I encourage anyone to contribute an article at any time, provided it is focused on ultrarunning, adventure running, or trail running.
The first five folks to register as site users are Matt Kirk, Steve Hoge, Quatro Hubbard, Mark Long, and Scott Brockmeier.