There are always moments in time which we can look back and remember when things changed. It may be the time you decided to buckle down for a job promotion. It could be the time you mustered up enough courage to ask out your now husband or wife.
For us, October 17th, 2016 is a monumental date for The Buckeye Battle Cry.
It is the culmination of a lot of hard work by our staff members to bring our fans the most unique coverage of the Ohio State University as possible.
Over the past two plus months, we have had tremendous growth and success here and it is entirely based on each and every one of your support for our website. With all of that support, we realize there were certain aspects to our website which made enjoyment very minimal. Namely, our host was very slow and advertisements seemed to pop-up and bog down which ever device you were using to read our page.
Despite all of this, fans kept coming and showing their support for our website. On Facebook, we gained over 2,000 fans in two months to put us over the 10,000 likes mark. This actually put us in front of sites like Land-Grant Holy Land on Facebook until recently.
Over that same span, 64 percent of the visitors to our site were new users and those readers spanned 10 different countries! Things were at their highest when the website had almost 15,000 page views on August 31.
Many websites will look at this number and scoff but for a website full of part-time “writers”, this is a big deal.
With all of this growth, we are extremely excited to announce that our website has now joined the New England Sports Network (NESN) family. As you may already know, NESN is primarily known for their broadcasts of Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins games but they are branching out to include other websites to further their reach.
So what does this mean for you? Well, the best thing for you all is a new host for our website which should help load times and stop some of the ads which ruined a lot of our lives. Secondly, it gives our writers a little bit of more connections at our disposal.
Even with this move, we are always looking to grow and become better. Please reach out and let us know what we can do to better the experience for you, the fan. Be open, be blunt, we don’t mind.
Our main goal is not to become internet famous like other sites. We want to provide unique content Tbut most of all we want each and every one of you to enjoy the experience. Without your feedback, we are unable to ensure we meet these goals.
Feel free to contact any one of our editors at:
Joe Dexter – [email protected]
Brandon Zimmerman – [email protected]
Shannon Sommers – [email protected]
Ben Van Ooyen – [email protected]
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