Monthly Report for December 2012

In December, Politics Plus was dead slow, because for most of the month, I was either sick, moving orboth.

Here is our latest summary:

In the monthly totals, a Site is any website from which someone accessed our server, a Hit is every access attempt to our server, and a File is every access attempt to our server that returned data.  The difference between Hits and Files is from access attempts that were sent in error or damaged in transit and failed attempts by hackers, spammers, phishers, and Republicans to access the back end and take control of the site.  Any questions?

Here is our latest Clustrmap:

Our map was archived in February, so what you see is from March 1 to December 15, when it was last updated.

Here are are top five articles:

A Republican Freedom                                                 9/24/2012

Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs                                          1/27/2010

Monthly Report for November 2013 (Abbreviated)      12/02/2013

Bullied by a Wimp?                                                        8/04/2012

Republicans on Parade–12/14/2013                           12/14/2013

People came from an external site with the specific purpose of reading these articles more than any others.

Here are our top Non-blog referrers

C2NN                  3,360

Stumbleupon       2,220

Thanks to Richard (aka Rixar) for putting our articles on Stumbleupon and occasionally elsewhere.

Here are our top fifteen blog/news referrers for December.

http://frieddogleg.blogspot.com/

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/

http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/

http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/

http://www.synapticstew.com/

http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/

http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/

http://hamsandwich66.blogspot.com/

http://zenman1550.tumblr.com/

http://mockpaperscissors.com/

http://swashzone.blogspot.com/

http://tinfoilandtea.tumblr.com/

http://kcecelia.blogspot.com/

http://reconstitution.us/rcnew/

http://mauigirlsmeanderings.blogspot.com/

http://sozadee.blogspot.com/

http://progressiveerupts.blogspot.com/

There are there extra, because we had a tie for 15th.  Fact is, it was so dang slow that one referral was all it took to make the list.  Every time we link to their sites, it increases their ratings, so here’s some linkey-love in return.  The best ways you can spread the message to others is to use the share button at the bottom of each article to list our articles on the the networking sites where you belong. Quote PP articles on your own blogs also helps.  The operative commandment here is “thou shalt steal.”  We’re on the same side here, and I encourage it.  Even if you want to repost a whole article, that’s OK.  Just link back, please.  Also, feel free to swipe my graphics in the articles.  If they are labeled with our Politics Plus URL, they are my work.

Here are the top fifteen commenters for December.  I remembered and copied them off in time.  I don’t count, as I’m the resident big mouth, and I try to reply to almost every comment, except replies directed at someone else.  Those who leave their URLs in their comments, also get linkey-love here.

Patty (86)

Edie (59)

Rixar13 (52)

Joanne D (42)

Jerry Critter (37)

SoINeedAName (22)

Lynn Squance (21)

Arielle (16)

misskitty (14)

Karen Chestney (13)

John Dasef (7)

Angelica (5)

Howard Brazee (5)

Pat A (5)

Yvonne White (5)

We have 1,501,678 links on other websites, a small increase.

Our Technorati rating is 113, low on the B list.  These ratings yo-yo and do not depend on our traffic or our overall links, but only links on sites registered with and recognized by Technorati.  If only Care2 would register their front page of C2NN news with Technorati, we’d be A list again every month.

As of Midnight, January 1, we have 4,630 articles and 49,626 comments.

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We have entered an election year Republicans will be going all out to deceive people into voting for them.  If they can’t do that they will try to fool people into thinking their vote does not matter and staying home or wasting their vote on a candidate with no chance to win.  Stopping them is our job!