Is Don Harrison Playing With The Numbers At
The Greenwich Citizen Website
TRUTH IN ADVERTISING
AT THE
GREENWICH CITIZEN
Since February 1, 2008 Greenwich Roundup has repeatedly updated our readers on our web statistics.
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Many times Greenwich Roundup has challenged the so-called news websites of the mainstream media to do the same. At times we have even pointed out the lack of Google page rank of Ex-Greenwich Time Editor Joe Pisani's over-hyped and supposedly "Hot New Blog" called Our Greenwich.
Well Hearst Newspapers has responded to Greenwich Roundup's repeated challenges to release it's web stats to it's readers and advertisers with full page four color ads in it's weekly Greenwich Citizen newspaper.
The Greenwich Citizen which is owned by
Brooks Community Newspapers, which is owned by Greenwich Time corporate parent, Hearst Newspapers released the following incomplete web stats in response to Greenwich Roundups challenges to come clean with it's web readership.
What Is With These Nice And Clean Numbers With All Of These Zeros At The End?
Did The Corporate Suits At Hearst Newspapers Roundup There Numbers?
What Ever Happened To Truth In Advertising?
Lets take a look at the 42,000 Crisp And Clean Monthly Unique Visitor Number that Don Harrison the editor of the Greenwich Citizen publishes in his newspaper.
When tracking the amount of
traffic on a Web site, a Unique Visitor refers to a person who visits a Web site more than once within a specified period of time.
Software that tracks and counts
Web site traffic can distinguish between visitors who only visit the site once and unique visitors who return to the site. Different from a site's
hits or
page views -- which are measured by the number of files that are requested from a site -- unique visitors are measured according to their unique
IP addresses, which are like online fingerprints, and unique visitors are counted only once no matter how many times they visit the site.
Greenwich Roundup always reports it's Unique Visitors on a web site by web site basis. Any Unique Visitor web stat reported about Greenwich Roundup is only for Greenwich Roundup.
Greenwich Roundup doesn't lump Darien Roundup's statistics with Greenwich Roundup Statistics to give a misleading and inflated number.
Moreover, any web stat reported on Greenwich Roundup is exact. We do not try to inflate our statistics by rounding up the numbers.
Greenwich Roundup is damn proud of our web stats and our exponential growth.
We have had an exceptionally good week.
Friday November 7 we had 976 Unique Visitors
Thursday November 6 we had 987 Unique Visitors
Wednesday November 5 we had 1,164 Unique Visitors
Tuesday November 4 we had 1,050 Unique Visitors
Monday November 3 we had 1,265 Unique Visitors
Sunday November 2 we had 824 Unique Visitors
Saturday November 1 we had 872 Unique Visitors
As we have reported since early last month that we are now starting to get at least 1000 Unique Visitors / Day one, two and sometimes three times a week.
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In fact, Greenwich Roundup is getting so much traffic we have had some professional cyber squaters from Washington state steal our Greenwich Roundup trade name and use it to register the domain name
http://www.greenwichroundup.com/ They have even started to use our name to sell ads to local Greenwich Businesses.
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We have sent these cyber squatters a cease and desist order and are preparing a formal complaint to combat their thievery.
But Our Numbers are so good that we don't have to worry about out of town thieves, we even had Ex-Greenwich Time Editor Joe Pisani and a bunch of other fired Greenwich Time employees trying to steal one of our trade names at the Our Greenwich Blog.
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The reason Greenwich Roundup is growing like gang busters is that we are a lean me truth telling machine that refuses to be complacent. Unlike Hearst Newspaper's Greenwich Citizen we Question Authority and respect the intelligence of our readers.
We do not try and mislead our readers.
But Don Harrison over at Hearst Newspaper's Greenwich Citizen publishes a misleading 42,500 Unique Visitor Figure.
But if you read the ad in Don Harrison's newspaper closely, you will find the rounded up 42,000 figure is not for just the Greenwich Citizen. It is for the Darien News-Review, the Fairfield Citizen News, the Greenwich Citizen, the New Canaan News-Review, the Norwalk Citizen and the Westport News.
And the reason that Don Harrison won't publish the complacent Greenwich Citizen's web stats openly and independently is that Greenwich Roundup probably gets more web traffic than his so-called news web site.
If you were to evenly divide the 42,000 Unique Visitor number that was published in the Greenwich Citizen by all six
Brooks Community Newspapers you would get an estimated number of 8,082 Unique Visitors a month or about 267 Unique Visitors per day.
Bloggers like Chris Fountain at
For What It's Worth and Claudette Rothman at
Greenwich Diva consistently beat Greenwich Citizen's number day and day out. Greenwich real estate advertisers would probably get a bigger bang for their buck if they bought a web ad from Chris instead of the Greenwich Citizen.
Perhaps Greenwich Citizen advertisers and readers should send a letter or call Brooks Community Newspapers and demand the facts about the web traffic numbers at the Greenwich Citizen. You can send a letter to.....
Hearst Newspaper Corporate Suits
Brooks Community Newspapers
542 Westport Ave Ste 7
Norwalk, CT , 06851-4431
Phone: 203-849-1600
FAX: 203-840-4844
Greenwich Roundup has consistently reported about the web traffic of these newspapers with out of town corporate directors and Greenwich in their masthead.
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Total Circulation Figures Tell The Shocking Truth
Even with a 22% Increase the Greenwich Time still comes in third place behind the Greenwich Post and it's own sister paper the Greenwich Citizen.
Circulation Greatly Improved After Unpopular
Ex-Greenwich Time Editor Joe Pisani Was Fired
....The New York Times reported losing 3.58 percent of its daily readers to 1,000,665 and the Los Angeles Times dropped 5.2 percent to 739,147.
Five of the top 25 newspapers reported double-digit losses: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shed 13.62 percent; the Houston Chronicle lost 11.66 percent; the Boston Globe lost 10.18 percent; the Star-Ledger, in Newark, N.J. shed 10.4 percent; and the Philadelphia Inquirer lost 11.06 percent.....
....The Top 25 participating U.S. newspapers reported varying figures, with the Houston Chronicle gaining 4.33 percent in combined print and online figures, and the Dallas Morning News reporting a 21.91 percent downturn from the September 2007 Audience Fax release.
Connecticut dailies the Greenwich Times and The Stamford Advocate had the highest combined print and online gains, reporting increases of 22.13 percent and 20.01 percent, respectively.....
Comment:
If You Want An Audience Start A Fight.
It Is Often Said....
All Publicity Is Good As Long As They Spell Your Name Correctly.Or As Brendan Behan Said...
There's no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
Maybe All Of This Bogging About The Crappy Reporting About The Greenwich Time Has Helped The Greenwich Time's Online Gains During The Past Six Months.As Greenwich Bloggers like Chris Fountain, Bill Clark And Greenwich Roundup Have Played Beat The Press With The Greenwich Time, Their Links Have Increased Interest In Local News And Provided Free Advertising To The Greenwich Time And Other Local Mainstream Papers.
Now You Know Why The Corporate Suits At Hearst Newspapers Look At The Greenwich Time Web Logs And Smile at all of That Internet Traffic Sent From Greenwich Bloggers.
Think About It.
What Have The Corporate Suits At Hearst Media Done Except For Firing Pisani And His Circle Of Insiders That Would Account For A 22.13 in Online And Print Gains.
What Else Has Changed At The Greenwich Time Except That The Newspaper Has Moved Away From Hyper Local Reporting And Started To Combine Web Site Features With The Connecticut Post.
The Sad Part Is That.....
Jim Zorba Is Probably Learning About The Favorable Audit Bureau of Circulation Report Today From Greenwich Roundup.
Managing Editor Jim Zorba, Has For the last Four Or Five Weeks Has Been Filling In For Ex-Greenwich Time Editor David Warner, Who Replaced Ex-Greenwich Time Editor Joe Pisani last May.
It's Not Like There Has Been A Cohesive Management Structure At The Greenwich Time That Could Have Orchestrated This Circulation Turn Around.
Years Of Greenwich Time Losses Were Reversed only During The Last 180 Days, Because Citizen Journalists And Bloggers Created Renewed Interest In Local News And Challenged The Mainstream Daily.
The Greenwich Time Has Learned That Competition Is Good.
In The Last 180 Days The Greenwich Time Is Up By Over 20%
Greenwich Roundup Is Up Over 350% During The Same Time Period.
Maybe, You Are Still Not Convinced About The Power Of A Greenwich Roundup Link.
Do You Remember This Post From About A Month Ago.
We Reported That When You Not one single link for Joe Pisani's "HOT" New Blog Called "Our Greenwich" There Was Not One Link For Our Greenwich.
We Even Posted The Top 10 Google Results Out Of 12,300,000 references for "Our Greenwich"
Well For The Last Month Greenwich Roundup Has Been Mentioning Our Greenwich And Pisiani At Least Three Or Four Times A Week.
Well Guess What The Number One Listing For A Google Search Of "Our Greenwich" Is Now.
Our GreenwichTwo weeks ago, we had an post on Uncivil Civics here on OurGreenwich, in which the implication was that the uncivility was a one-way street aimed at the ...ourgreenwich.com/ - 53k -
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Our Greenwich Should Say
Thank You Greenwich Roundup.
But Greenwich Roundup Readers Know That Daily We Link To The Good Bad And The Ugly At "Our Greenwich"
Results 1 - 10 of about 947 from greenwichroundup.blogspot.com for "Our Greenwich"
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Ex-Greenwich Time Editor Joe Joe Pisani And Ex-Greenwich Time Columnist Sarah Littman Should Add Up All Of Their Web Visitors This Month And Divide It By The 947 Greenwich Roundup Links.Here At Greenwich Roundup We Are More Than Sure That We Are Responsible For 50% Or More Of Their Web Traffic.
As Well As, Any Traffic From That Number 1 Google Listing Cortsey Of Greenwich Roundup.
A Greenwich Roundup Link Is Like Gold.
Do You Need More Proof?
One Month Ago We Published
A Very Specific Google Search For:
"Joe Pisani Greenwich CT"
And Got TheseTop Five Google Results:
One Month Later Google Is Serving Up
For"Joe Pisani Greenwich CT"
Reveal Shockingly New Results:
People Search Directory - Find People Pisani, Joseph - Pisani, Mikepisani, joseph 77 Harrison Township, MI Harrison Twp, MI Naples, FL · pisani, joseph 68 Bonita Springs, FL ..... pisani, margaret 72 Old Greenwich, CT ...www.reunion.com/people-search-directory/L3/294359 -
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For Google Links About"Joe Pisani Greenwich CT"
That's An Awesome One Month Change
There Is Still No Google Top Links To Joe Pisani's Weekly Writings At The Greenwich Post Or At His Blog Called Our Greenwich.
There Are Just Old Authoritative Web Sites With Out Dated Information About The Ex-Greenwich Time Editors Former Career At The Greenwich Time.Because These Authoritative Web Sites Have Not Updated Their Information On Who The Current Greenwich Time Editor Is They Are Quickly Losing Google Page Rank.For example
http://www.greenwicharts.org/ Has Dropped From A Page Rank Of One To A Page Rank Of Three In Just 30 days. With A Year This Page Will Be Deeply Buried In The Google Results If It Is Not Updated Soon.When Most Of these Authoritative Sites Are Updated, At The End Of The Year, With Who The New Editor Of The Greenwich Time Is.
These Links Will Totally Disappear From A Search Of Joe Pisani's Name. Then maybe Joe Pisani's free writings at the Greenwich Post and Our Greenwich might worm there way past Mary Pisani and Joe Pisani Of Hackensack, New Jersey.
There Will Always Be The Highly Paged Ranked Greenwich Roundup To Tell The World About The Ex-Greenwich Time Editor Fondly Known As Joe "The Censor" Pisani.
Perhaps After Reading All Of This You Are Not Still Not Convinced That Greenwich Citizen Journalist And Bloggers Created A Renewed Local Interest In Hyper Local News That The Greenwich Time Benefited From.
Then Please Tell Us Specifically What Did The Greenwich Time Do To Get 22% More Readers.
Did They Hold Some Online Million Dollar Bingo Contest That Was Tied To Thier Game Cards In Their Sunday Paper During Th Last 180 Days?
Did They Cut The Price Of Paper To Increase Circulation?
Was There A Get 180 Days Of The Greenwich Time For Only A Buck Promotion?
Did They Add More Columnist And Features?
No To All Of The Above.
In fact, circulation soared 22% when they fired two editors during the 180 day period.
Maybe The Greenwich Time Should Fire Managing Editor Jim Zorba And About four or Five More Reporters so that 22% growth can continue at the Greenwich Time.
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