Summary: A year in, 50,000+ views.
The idea behind the blog First.One.Through was to get people educated about Israel. While there are many news sites that describe the latest events, there are woefully few that do any proper analysis, as many are either lazy, inaccurate, or just have a very anti-Israel bias.
First.One.Through is deliberately anonymous; you will not see a byline in the articles. The goal of the site is to empower each person who reads the articles to post them to their Facebook page, Twitter feeds, forward an email, etc. By simply using “First One Through,” people are not forwarding someone else’s opinion piece, but sharing their own sentiments (which someone wrote out for them).
The blog has loyal followers in Australia, Israel, United States and slowly growing in the UK, where articles are re-posted and re-blogged almost daily. Hopefully the other English-speaking countries like Canada and South Africa will gain loyal followers this year.
As the blog just reached 50,000 views as it passed its first anniversary, it seemed an opportune time to share with you a little bit about your fellow readers. As seen below, sharing things in a digital world has a way of reaching all parts of the globe.
Viewers
People read the posts in 130+ countries and territories. Top Ranked are:
- United States
- Israel
- Australia
- United Kingdom
- Canada
- South Africa
- Netherlands
- Germany
- Brazil
- France
In case you were curious how this list compares to the FirstOneThrough YouTube channel, here is the top ten countries for the videos:
- United States
- Israel
- Canada
- United Kingdom
- Australia
- Germany
- Netherlands
- France
- Saudi Arabia
- Brazil
Yes, that is Saudi Arabia at number 9, mostly watching a video about themselves followed by Syria .
Top Posts
- Honor Killings in Gaza
- Every Picture Tells a Story, Don’t it?
- “Please Sir, May I have Some More?”
- Early Fridays in the Office
- An “Anti-Semitic Tinge”
- An Inconvenient Truth: Population Statistics in Israel/ Palestine
- Aliyah to Israel
- Eyal Gilad Naftali Klinghoffer. The New Blood Libel
- The Legal Israeli Settlements
- Alternatives for Punishing Dead Terrorists
How they found the Blog
- Jewish Press
- American Thinker
What Links did People Click?
- Other WordPress articles
- Youtube
- New York Times
- Al Monitor
- Al Jazeera
- Wall Street Journal
- Times of Israel
- United Nations
- NY Post
- CNN
The busiest viewership months were July 2014 and November 2014 as Israel was in the news often. Over the past few months, the number of viewers has declined, but the “quality” has improved as measured by the number of articles read by the average reader each visit (growing from 1.5 to 1.9).
The site does not make any money from advertisements and does not take donations. All of the work is for free. If you would like to support the cause, be an avid advertiser by forwarding and promoting the articles you like. Forward email addresses of people who would enjoy the articles under a private message.
To answer a question that has come up many times- the pictures at the top of the each article appear randomly and do not have anything to do with the content of the article. I took every picture at various locations in Israel.
Continue to enjoy and share the posts.
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