Comments on: March Madness: Basketball Scores Online Traffic

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Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:01:44 +0000

[...] not to long ago about Butler’s traffic increase from their success in the tournament, March Madness: Basketball Scores Online Traffic. So over the last few weeks I’ve noticed that Davidson’s Alexa traffic was [...]

By: Colin Fast

Colin Fast — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:58:57 +0000

Davidson’s site was moving like a turtle yesterday. Kudos to their web/marketing team for placing Stephen Curry’s student testimonial on the front page though.

By: JamieHS

JamieHS — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:05:49 +0000

I googled Siena too and their site was down. I’m sure it got hammered. I ended up going to wikipedia.

I bet a good conference session could be put together by the George Mason’s, Davidson’s, and Siena’s on handling the newfound publicity.

By: Brad J. Ward

Brad J. Ward — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:43:29 +0000

Sadly, I was going to use this weekend to test out the new chat plugin I implemented on the site, but decided NOT to do it because I wanted to watch the game! Classic example of hindsight.

For the software you mentioned, I know Xigla has a great open-source solution for $180. We pushed for it, but to no avail. They ended up purchasing a ‘solution’ that cost 177 times more, and none of the information in the live answer shows up on searches. Bad call. That’s a whole other blog post, though.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:38:42 +0000

makes you wonder if admissions ppl should be on the site during those times to initiate chats with the visitors. there is software out there to see who is on your site live and then you can click on them to initiate a chat.

By: Joe Gaylor

Joe Gaylor — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:13:28 +0000

Great post.

The answer to the benefit question is simply: YOU WEREN’T THERE last year!!!!!!