Politics Plus

In March, Politics Plus set new record for activity, topping our previous high last June.  Thank you so much for making that happen.

Here are our basic stats:

Here is our most recent Clustrmap, last updated on March 30.

Our Clustrmap reset the morning of 2/28, starting over from scratch, so the above map represents just one month’s traffic. The largest circles represent over 1,000n visits.  The tiniest represent one to ten.

Our durations were up from 159 seconds last month:

Number of visits: 48445 – Average: 170 s	Number of visits	Percent
0s-30s	40898	84.4 %
30s-2mn	2197	4.5 %
2mn-5mn	1385	2.8 %
5mn-15mn	1368	2.8 %
15mn-30mn	926	1.9 %
30mn-1h	976	2 %
1h+	695	1.4 %

That’s incredible, because we also had more visitors.

Search engine referrals rose significantly.

21 different referring search engines	Pages	Percent	Hits	Percent
Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark)	12107	73.2 %	20213	75.3 %
Google	3907	23.6 %	5773	21.5 %
Microsoft MSN Search	203	1.2 %	203	0.7 %
Yahoo!	98	0.5 %	161	0.6 %
Microsoft Bing	65	0.3 %	105	0.3 %
Google (Images)	40	0.2 %	57	0.2 %
AOL	31	0.1 %	31	0.1 %
Unknown search engines	23	0.1 %	24	0 %
Digg (Social Bookmark)	22	0.1 %	46	0.1 %
Microsoft Windows Live	20	0.1 %	105	0.3 %
Ask	9	0 %	9	0 %
MyWebSearch	4	0 %	9	0 %
GoodSearch	3	0 %	4	0 %
Scroogle	2	0 %	2	0 %
Yandex	2	0 %	41	0.1 %
Earth Link	1	0 %	1	0 %
Dogpile	1	0 %	1	0 %
ix quick	1	0 %	1	0 %
Baidu			2	0 %
Go.com			34	0.1 %
SoGou			1	0 %

Our top four non-blog referrers are:

http://www.reddit.com/ 14,700+

http://www.facebook.com/ 3,000+

http://buzzflash.net/  2,700+

http://www.jabberwonk.com/  1,700+

Our top 15 referrer blogs are:

http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/

http://jackjodell53.wordpress.com/

http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/

http://themanwhowalksalonewalksfaster.blogspot.com/

http://whohijackedourcountry.blogspot.com/

http://republic-of-gilead.blogspot.com/

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/

http://freakoutnation.com/

http://reconstitution.us/rcnew/

http://www.patrickpretty.com/

http://jbm479.blogspot.com/

http://www.timsscaredstiff.com/

http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/

http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/

http://katieschwartz.com/

There’s some linkey-love in return  The best ways you can publicize Politics Plus is to use the share button at the bottom of each post to list our articles on the the sites where you belong, and to quote PP articles on your own blogs.  The operative commandment here is “thou shalt steal.”  We’re on the same side here, so I won’t mind.  Even if you want to repost a whole article, that’s OK.  Just link back, please.  Also, feel free to swipe the graphics.

Technorati was strange again last month.  In spite of great statistical record our authority is down in Global and World, but up in Politics and US Politics.  Globally, we’re back to the B list.  I still have absolutely no idea why.

• Global 445 (rank 4,825)
• US politics 534 (rank 163)
• Politics 512 (rank 247)
• World 124 (rank 634)

We have 289,640 links on other websites, down from 385,203 last month.

We have 2,133 posts and 16,193 comments, as of midnight 4/1.

We have new wacky avatars, and I’ll change them each month, but I recommend your own avatar. Go to Gravatar.  Sign up using the email address you use to post comments here and upload the image you want to use.  Whenever you comment under that e mail address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that will be your avatar.

I have to admit that the stunning numbers we have this month caught me by surprise.  We did have one somewhat viral article.  My evaluation of Obama’s Libya speech had over 10,000 views.  I haven’t been doing anything different, so as I see it, the difference has to be you.  Your participation is what makes this blog worth reading, not to mention worth writing.  Congratulations and thank you.

The second month of the new year was a marked improvement over the first.

Here are our basic stats:

Here is our most recent Clustrmap, last updated on March 1.

Our Clustrmap reset the morning of 2/28, starting over from scratch, so the above map represents just one day’s traffic.

Our durations were well down from 196 seconds last month:

Number of visits: 37554 – Average: 159 s	Number of visits	Percent
0s-30s	31930	85 %
30s-2mn	1689	4.4 %
2mn-5mn	1010	2.6 %
5mn-15mn	1067	2.8 %
15mn-30mn	653	1.7 %
30mn-1h	744	1.9 %
1h+	461	1.2 %

That’s expected, because we had more visitors.

Search engine referrals rose significantly.

19 different referring search engines	Pages	Percent	Hits	Percent
Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark)	7248	66.8 %	10951	68.3 %
Google	3155	29 %	4479	27.9 %
Microsoft MSN Search	277	2.5 %	277	1.7 %
Microsoft Bing	48	0.4 %	86	0.5 %
Yahoo!	29	0.2 %	44	0.2 %
Google (Images)	24	0.2 %	37	0.2 %
AOL	13	0.1 %	13	0 %
Microsoft Windows Live	12	0.1 %	29	0.1 %
Unknown search engines	11	0.1 %	12	0 %
Ask	9	0 %	9	0 %
Yandex	5	0 %	18	0.1 %
Digg (Social Bookmark)	3	0 %	52	0.3 %
Alexa	3	0 %	3	0 %
Scroogle	3	0 %	3	0 %
MyWebSearch	2	0 %	12	0 %
Earth Link	1	0 %	1	0 %
Baidu	1	0 %	1	0 %
Excite	1	0 %	1	0 %
MetaCrawler (Metamoteur)			1	0 %

Our top three non-blog referrers are:

http://www.reddit.com/ 13,300+

http://www.buzzflash.net/ 1,750+

http://www.jabberwonk.com/ 1,350+

Our top 15 referrer blogs are:

http://www.jackjodell.blogspot.com/

http://america-weeps.blogspot.com/

http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/

http://themanwhowalksalonewalksfaster.blogspot.com/

http://republic-of-gilead.blogspot.com/

http://whohijackedourcountry.blogspot.com/

http://samandimp.wordpress.com/

http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/

http://okjimmseggrollemporium.blogspot.com/

http://www.timsscaredstiff.com/

http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/

href="http://www.oldamericancentury.org/">http://www.oldamericancentury.org/

http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/

http://thebeekeepersapprentice.com/

There’s some linkey-love in return  The best ways you can publicize Politics Plus is to use the share button at the bottom of each post to list our articles on the the sites where you belong, and to quote PP articles on your own blogs.  The operative commandment here is “thou shalt steal.”  We’re on the same side here, so I won’t mind.  Even if you want to repost a whole article, that’s OK.  Just link back, please.

Technorati was strange again last month.  In spite of great statistical improvement our authority is down in every category except World, and we’re about to fall off the A list.  I still have absolutely no idea why.

• Global 500 (rank 3,422)
• US politics 551 (rank 226)
• Politics 499 (rank 404)
• World 474 (rank 263)

We have 385,203 links on other websites, up from 169,169 last month.

We have 2,010 posts and 15,252 comments, as of midnight 3/1.

If you are tired of our wacky avatars and would like your own avatar, go to Gravatar.  Sign up using the email address you use to post comments here and upload the image you want to use.  Whenever you comment under that e mail address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that will be your avatar.

Now we’re in a slower political time, because the next major election is almost two years away, so I don’t expect us to put up the same numbers we did last year.  Nevertheless, I think we have an important role to play finding and sharing the facts that are too honest for the mainstream media to touch. I  evaluate events from a left wing perspective, but with honesty and integrity.  Please keep joining in.  Without your participation, this would just be an average blog.

Our eleventh full month since we moved from Blogger was much better than last month. Although not back to the heady days leading up to the elections, we’re improving in all statistical categories.

Here are our basic stats:

Here is our most recent Clustrmap, last updated on December 25.

Our durations were well up from 247 seconds last month:

Number of visits: 25278 – Average: 196 s	Number of visits	Percent
0s-30s	21211	83.9 %
30s-2mn	920	3.6 %
2mn-5mn	732	2.8 %
5mn-15mn	832	3.2 %
15mn-30mn	529	2 %
30mn-1h	636	2.5 %
1h+	418	1.6 %

That’s expected, because we had more visitors.

Search engine referrals rose.

18 different referring search engines	Pages	Percent	Hits	Percent
Google	2541	66.7 %	3908	63.2 %
Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark)	890	23.3 %	1744	28.2 %
Microsoft MSN Search	188	4.9 %	217	3.5 %
Yahoo!	50	1.3 %	75	1.2 %
Microsoft Bing	43	1.1 %	71	1.1 %
Google (Images)	35	0.9 %	56	0.9 %
AOL	20	0.5 %	23	0.3 %
Unknown search engines	14	0.3 %	14	0.2 %
Ask	8	0.2 %	8	0.1 %
Microsoft Windows Live	5	0.1 %	44	0.7 %
Earth Link	3	0 %	3	0 %
Scroogle	3	0 %	3	0 %
Dogpile	2	0 %	2	0 %
MyWebSearch	2	0 %	6	0 %
WebCrawler	1	0 %	1	0 %
Search.com	1	0 %	1	0 %
Icerocket (Blog)	1	0 %	1	0 %
Yandex			2	0 %

Our top three non-blog referrers are:

http://www.reddit.com/       5,700+

http://www.buzzflash.net/   2,000+

http://www.jabberwonk.com/  500+

Our top 15 referrer blogs are:

http://america-weeps.blogspot.com/

http://thebeekeepersapprentice.com/

http://themanwhowalksalonewalksfaster.blogspot.com/

http://www.jackjodell.blogspot.com/

http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/

http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/

http://republic-of-gilead.blogspot.com/

http://whohijackedourcountry.blogspot.com/

http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/

http://kcecelia.blogspot.com/

http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/

http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/

http://buckdogpolitics.blogspot.com/

http://www.timsscaredstiff.com/

There’s some linkey-love in return  The best ways you can publicize Politics Plus is to use the share button at the bottom of each post to list our articles on the the sites where you belong, and to quote PP articles on your own blogs.  The operative commandment here is “thou shalt steal.”  We’re on the same side here, so I won’t mind.  Even if you want to repost a whole article, that’s OK.  Just link back, please.

Technorati was strange again last month.  Our global authority and rank is lower than last month, but we increased in authority and rank in all three topical areas.  How can that be?  I still have absolutely no idea.

• Global 520 (rank 2,839)
• US politics 597 (rank 166)
• Politics 550 (rank 280)
• World 466 (rank 278)

We have 169,169 links on other websites, down from 278,133 last month.

We have 1,903 posts and 14,396 comments, as of midnight 2/1.

If you are tired of our wacky avatars and would like your own avatar, go to Gravatar.  Sign up using the email address you use to post comments here and upload the image you want to use.  Whenever you comment under that e mail address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that will be your avatar.

Now we’re in a slower political time, because the next major election is almost two years away, so I don’t expect us to put up the same numbers we did last year.  Nevertheless, I think we have an important role to play fin ding and sharing the facts that are too honest for the mainstream media to touch and evaluating events from a left wing perspective, but with honesty and integrity.  Welcome aboard.  Without your participation, this would just be an average blog.

Our ninth full month since we moved from Blogger was even stellar, largely because one article had a huge response.  This was our second best month ever, so I’m anticipating a decrease next month.  I will consider any improvement on October a success.

Here are our basic stats:

Here is our most recent Clustrmap, last updated on November 21.

Our durations well well down from 224 seconds last month:

Number of visits: 43254 – Average: 153 s	Number of visits	Percent
0s-30s	37733	87.2 %
30s-2mn	1499	3.4 %
2mn-5mn	983	2.2 %
5mn-15mn	1046	2.4 %
15mn-30mn	608	1.4 %
30mn-1h	769	1.7 %
1h+	616	1.4 %

That’s not a problem, because we had so many more visitors.

Search engine referrals continue to rise.

Links from an Internet Search Engine

 

– Google	3492	5243
– Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark)	810	1202
– MSN Search	166	264
– Yahoo!	85	120
– Bing	76	109
– Google (Images)	45	71
– Unknown search engines	17	19
– AOL	16	17
– Windows Live	10	66
– Ask	9	9
– Yandex	4	4
– Earth Link	3	3
– Digg (Social Bookmark)	3	3
– Virgilio	2	3
– GoodSearch	2	3
– MyWebSearch	1	1
– Go.com	0	196
– Netscape	0	1

Our top three non-blog referrers are:

http://www.reddit.com/ 17,000+

http://www.buzzflash.net/ 4,400+

http://www.jabberwonk.com/ 950+

Our top 15 referrer blogs are:

http://www.roseanneworld.com/blog/

http://america-weeps.blogspot.com/

http://www.jackjodell.blogspot.com/

http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/

http://themanwhowalksalonewalksfaster.blogspot.com/

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/

http://whohijackedourcountry.blogspot.com/

http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/

http://carolinaparrothead.blogspot.com/

http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/

http://www.timsscaredstiff.com/

http://anaverageamericanpatriot.blogspot.com/

http://www.alan.com/

http://madmikesamerica.com/resources/

http://ohforgoodnesssake.com/

There’s some linkey-love in return  The best ways you can publicize Politics Plus is to use the share button at the bottom of each post to list our articles on the the sites where you belong, and to quote PP articles on your own blogs.  The operative commandment here is “thou shalt steal.”  We’re on the same side here, so I won’t mind.  Even if you want to repost a whole article, that’s OK.  Just link back, please.

Technorati increased our global Technorati Authority from 447 to 535 (rank 2,683).  That puts us back on the A list.  Our topical ratings are;

• US politics 649 (rank 129)
• Politics 603 (rank 181)
• World 479 (rank 231)

I could not be more thrilled.  Just to give you an understanding, in US Politics our authority is 331 below CNN, 131 below TPM, and 38 above SPLC Hatewatch.

We have 303,887 links on other websites, up from 65,558 last month.

We have 1,672 posts and 12,634 comments, as of midnight 12/1.

If you are tired of our wacky avatars and would like your own avatar, go to Gravatar.  Sign up using the email address you use to post comments here and upload the image you want to use.  Whenever you comment under that e mail address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that will be your avatar.

I’m proud of our success, but I hold you equally responsible it.  This belongs to all of us.  Please feel the pride you deserve to have over the quality of your participation here.