VanderbiltCupRaces.com 2008 Year in Review
Thanks for a great first year! VanderbiltCupRaces.com ended up with the #1 Google ranking among the 178,000 websites that appear for a search on "Vanderbilt Cup Races". The 2008 stats and year in review are below:
Enjoy,
Howard Kroplick
Key 2008 Stats
• Ranked #1 by Google among the 178,000 websites that appear for a search on “Vanderbilt Cup Races”
• Ranked #9 by Google among 84,5000 websites that appear for a search on “Long Island Motor Parkway”
• During 2008, the website had 19,974 visits and 15,504 absolute unique visitors. This represented 65 visits per day with an average of 4 page views and 4 minutes view time.
• Visitors came from 113 countries including; Qatar, Israel, Azerbaijan, Malta, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, Uganda, Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Pakistan, Lebanon, Bangladesh, and Iceland.
• 69% of viewers reached the website using Internet Explorer, followed by Firefox (22%), and Safari (7%).
• A record 840 unique visitors came to the website on Saturday, October 11, 2008 when the New York Times mentioned VanderbiltCupRaces.com in its article “First Auto Parkway: From Road to Ruin” .
• In October, there were 4,307 visitors to the website (an average of 144 per day) to celebrate the centennial of the Long Island Motor Parkway
Year in Review: 2008
March 1: Website officially launched with 36 visits
March 2: First post in the blog on driver George Arents, Jr.
March 13: Arcadia Publishing releases “Vanderbilt Cup Races of Long Island”
March 15: Roslyn News "Remembering the Vanderbilt Races"
March 16: New York Times “Long before NASCAR, Dirt-Road Daredevils”
April 10: Vanderbilt Cup Races of Long Island selected as book of the month
May 30: What was the Long Island Automotive Museum?
June 15: Driver Profile: Harry Grant
June 23:Driver Profile: George Robertson
July 28: Arcadia announces a new Long Island Motor Parkway book
August 2: Eddie Rickenbacker: America’s Ace of Aces and Vanderbilt Cup Race Participant
August 25: Calling All Vanderbilt Cup Race families
September 11: Video: Old 16 Rides Again in Dearborn
October 1: Premium Vanderbilia
October 3: Roslyn News “More History on Long Island Roadways”
October 10: Happy Birthday to the Long Island Motor Parkway
October 11: New York Times “First Auto Parkway: From Road to Ruin”. Record 840 unique visitors view VanderbiltCupRaces.com.
October 19: Video: Howard Kroplick interview
October 20: Newsday publishes special 4-Page Pullout on the Long Island Motor Parkway
October 24: Highlights of the Centennial Celebrations
October 25: Video: Willie K Talks!
October 31: Large crowd attends book-signing at Book Revue
November 29: Images from the November presentations
December 6: Looking for the restored Alco-6 Racer
December 14: Chaplin, Normand, Sennett and the 1914 Vanderbilt Cup Race
December 16: New Queens LIMP Signage
December 21: Restored Alco-6 Racer returning to Long Island!
December 24: Newsday: Vanderbilt Racer returns to LI
December 27: The complete 44-Mile LIMP Tour: Maps, Images and Videos
December 28:The Alco-6 "Black Beast" Racing History
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