Did the Tiger Debacle Earn Awards for His Website?
by Ryan Ballengee on Aug 25, 2010 1:00 PM EDT
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PrintThe traffic to TigerWoods.com has been through the roof since last November. What with 15 mistresses, a speech carried by the networks, doubts about his schedule, and now a divorce, the general public has been interested in Tiger's life - or its destruction.
Quantcast - a service which offers estimates of Web traffic - shows a huge spike in traffic to Woods' site from Thanksgiving to just about March, right after his February 19 speech at Sawgrass.
The traffic has since subsided back to prior levels as the public grows disinterested of the story, but that didn't stop Tiger's website from receiving four honors from SportsBusiness Group.
TigerWoods.com won four of the seven categories: Multimedia Content, General Content, Monetisation, and Partnership Activation.
The site was praised for "delivering for sponsors" (what's left of them). We found the site to be pretty great at propagating Woods' view of things, and promoting his outstanding charity work. But, did the scandal create the awards?
Not necessarily. The site was redone five months before the Thanksgiving crash and subsequent unraveling. Writing in 2003, Darren Rovell was not impressed with sponsor value of the site, noting Woods' then site had few mentions of his horde of sponsors. Many have since disappeared, but they do receive some more attention in this current version of the site.
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Ryan, don’t you have a special Web site dedicated to this crap?
"(I)f you think you've got an inside track to absolute truth, you become doctrinaire, humorless and intellectually constipated." Saul Alinsky
None, really.
I’m just hoping someday the only mention of any golfer here will be about golf.
"(I)f you think you've got an inside track to absolute truth, you become doctrinaire, humorless and intellectually constipated." Saul Alinsky
That’s pretty much impossible. The whole site is dedicated to all things golf – even things that are loosely related. I mean, the political stuff generates a lot of conversation here and has nothing to do with golf :)
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by Ryan Ballengee on Aug 25, 2010 3:28 PM EDT up reply actions
OK
the political stuff generates interest. Maybe readers should leave the tabloid stuff alone.
"(I)f you think you've got an inside track to absolute truth, you become doctrinaire, humorless and intellectually constipated." Saul Alinsky
I mean, rip into as you see fit – I don’t take it personally :)
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by Ryan Ballengee on Aug 25, 2010 4:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Which I find amazing
I would certainly not have been able to take the ribbing/ripping at your age. I hope you don’t find that remark condescending – it’s not meant that way. Taking a wild guess at the average age of “your community” you get a lot of respect.
Did I miss something? what political discussions ?
I must have been out building my first Martini of the evening, or slicing cheese and sausage for the crackers…Oh my, Political you say ? STUB
I thought thats why you started the Trailing Tiger off-shoot ??
As I said in one of my earlier comments today, about 8-9 of us left TGC blogs to come here because of all the tiger articles. “overload”. Personaly I like it here but enough Tiger already,,sheeeeeeeeeeeeesh
"pain is only weakness leaving the body"
I wish TXQ
I don’t really get much downtime. Even when I’m off, I answer my (not 1 but 2 ) cell phones from 7am – 7pm, 7 days a week, and thats when I’m not working. lol 6:00am to 10:00pm when I am working.
"pain is only weakness leaving the body"
Yikes. You probably just missed three calls
by replying to my comment. My bad.
Nah 6-7 pm is the least ringing
when I’m at the office. When I’m at the tournaments 6-7 pm is one of the busiest.
"pain is only weakness leaving the body"
Are you sure that's Tiger's graph...
…and not Greg Norman’s ? There’s a definite shark shape there.
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
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