Comments on: Why Your Nonprofit’s Volunteer Base Should Blog for Your Nonprofit

By: Blogging does increase traffic | Empact Communications

Blogging does increase traffic | Empact Communications — Mon, 31 May 2010 08:47:23 +0000

[...] He is not generally opposed to social media tools, and he understands my arguments, but he needs to be convinced that a blog will really help us increase web traffic. Looking for research to back up my arguments, I came across an interesting article on http://www.nonprofittechblog.org which, using as an example an organisation called APA for Progress, shows a clear correlation between blog entries and site traffic (for a complete article, coupled with graphs and workflow charts click here). [...]

By: tomc

tomc — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:18:23 +0000

This is very interesting. We discovered similar results in what we call our "community blogs" as we were trying to decide if all the moderation we're doing is worth the effort. members.greenpeace.org/blog has brought a significant amount of search traffic.

By: rosie

rosie — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:50:55 +0000

Thanks for this fresh perspective. Would be interested in your assessment of health related blogs and the impact of their messages, etc Perhaps encouraging a group of volunteer contributors can multiply the effort. Also want to know your opinion about more than 3 posts a day on SEO-does it make a difference?
Thanks and keep up the great work.

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By: Allan Benamer

Allan Benamer — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:19:18 +0000

Thanks, Craig, I'm going to update this article soon. Additional data is available now and apaforprogress.org has (according to GA) surpassed the 10,000 visitors per month mark without any significant news stories powering the traffic. In August, APA for Progress created over 6 posts a day which resulted in 9,659 visitors for that month. I don't think APAP can hit that mark again this mark but there's been a surge in search engine traffic to the site because people are looking for Obama's health care summary. I would probably say that any news cycle related to political issues will increase traffic to the APAP site. We're also seeing a rather significant uptick in direct traffic to the site as well suggest that users are getting used to looking for Asian American political news on the site.

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:47:10 +0000

Great article. I am gonna push our non-profit to start blogging. We just rolled out a new joomla based site two weeks at www.drivebuv.org and added a blog under "About Us". GA is telling us we are getting about 10k PViews a month now. Hopefully I will be able to report back to you in a couple of months with similar results.

By: Weblogs: je mehr Blogposts, desto besser? « Das Kulturmanagement Blog

Weblogs: je mehr Blogposts, desto besser? « Das Kulturmanagement Blog — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:27:35 +0000

[...] Allan Benamer einen Beitrag gefunden, der diese Behauptung unterstützt. In seinem Beitrag” Why Your Nonprofit’s Volunteer Base Should Blog for Your Nonprofit” zeigt er die Entwicklung der Zahlen an Hand eines konkreten [...]

By: Enabling your bloggers benefits your website — Groupings

Enabling your bloggers benefits your website — Groupings — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:05:44 +0000

[...] Benamer at Non-Profit Tech Blog has a fascinating look at why you should enable your supporters to create their own blogs on your [...]

By: How much does it cost to get your nonprofit blogging? | Non-Profit Tech Blog

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:42:51 +0000

[...] Obviously, over 52 weeks, we’re talking about 520 hours of work during that year. Assuming a cost of around $20 an hour for the full time employee that’s $10400. With any luck, your blogging community should be up to around five or six good bloggers by the end of the first six months and by the end of the year site management will probably take more time as your media efforts start running through your new site and getting a lot more traffic to boot. And that’s pretty much how APA for Progress started. [...]

By: Monday Highlights « ServeNext.org Blog

Monday Highlights « ServeNext.org Blog — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:55:41 +0000

[...] The Non-Profit Tech Blog posted a piece entitled “Why Your Nonprofit’s Volunteer Base Should Blog For Your Nonprofit.” This piece explains that if a nonprofit organization allows their followers to blog on [...]