Blogs Increase Online Newspapers Traffic

Blogs have given the nations top 10 newspaper sites a much-needed increase in traffic. Over the past year Web traffic to the blog pages of the top 10 online newspapers grew 210 percent. Over all the unique audience growth has increased by 9 percent in the past year. Unique visitors to blog pages accounted for 13 percent of Web traffic in December 2006. That's up 9 percentage points from 4 percent in December 2005. "As Web 2.0 becomes a predominant online consumer model, traditional publishers are adopting interactive forums like blogs," said Carolyn Creekmore, senior director of media analytics, Del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Furl Mike is a staff writer for murdok for the latest ebusiness news.