Companies that blog get 55% more website visitors
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Source found and quoted correctly, but old enough that the market has changed.
- Commonly cited as
- "Companies that blog get 55% more visitors, 97% more links, 434% more indexed pages"
- True origin
- HubSpot — Analysis of HubSpot customers' websites (reported Aug 2009)
- Type
- Stat check: A widely repeated statistic traced back to its origin.
- Year
- 2009
- Data as of
- 2009
- Last checked
- What the source says
that's the average increase in visitors to small business websites as a result of blogging, according to the study.
- Method & sample
- Comparison of HubSpot small-business customers with and without blogs (correlation, not an experiment).
- Drift between quote and source
- Causality: a correlation among one vendor's customers quoted as an effect
- Date: 17 years old
- Interest
- HubSpot sells blogging software.
Safe rephrasing
A 2009 HubSpot comparison of its small-business customers found those with blogs averaged 55% more visitors.
Sources we opened
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