Politics Plus

In March, Politics Plus improved significantly in every category except KBytes.  That’s because we has less video content, due to our attempt to use videos that can be seen worldwide,.

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:

This is the new reset map that I told you would look naked.  It shows only the visits from March 2 to March 29.

Here are are top five articles:

Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs (1/17/2010)
Rachel Maddow: Why We Did It (3/8/2014)
Bill Maher–New Rules–3/1 (3/3/2014)
Why Fox Is Banned in Canada (3/7/2011)
Republicans Still Love Their Pootie! (3/5/2014)

I’m pleased that three articles from March included with two from past years.

Here are our top non-blog/news referrers.

Google (3,178)
Care2 (2,198)
Stumbleupon (653)
Microsoft Bing (132)
Yahoo! (116)

Care2 was significantly down, a disappointment, because we posted more articles there in March, but Stumbleupon was up, thanks to Richard (Rixar),  Search engines are finally starting to take notice.

Here are our top 12 blog/news referrers.

http://frieddogleg.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.synapticstew.com/
http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/
http://rixar13.newsvine.com/
http://mockpaperscissors.com/
http://alterx.blogspot.com/
http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://zenman1550.tumblr.com/
http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/
http://buckdogpolitics.blogspot.com/
http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/

Putting their links here increases the ratings of their sites, so this “linkey love” is our thank you for their support.

Here are our top commentators:

Patty (104)
Lynn Squance (96)
Joanne D (59)
Edie (51)
rixar13 (51)
Jerry Critter (44)
Pat A (43)
misstexaskitty (28)
SoINeedAName (24)
Jim Phillips (19)
Arielle (13)
Edith Belcher (10)
Phil Hanson (8)
Avril Lomas (5)
mamabear (5)
Terrie Williams (5)

Those who leave their URLs in their comment headers, also get “linkey-love” here.

We have 268,642 links on other websites.

Our Technorati rating is 113, unchanged from last month, but still 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, once I started posting in sufficient quantity to justify it.

As of Midnight, April 1, we have 4,775 articles and 51,603 comments.

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I had to make one change.  Where I used to live, my living conditions debilitated me so much that I rarely got out and had little to do inside from lack of facilities.  All I had to do was blog.  Now I am capable of doing more to take care of myself, but that also takes more time.  I used to reply to every single comment here, even if it was just an acknowledgement.  Now, I’m replying to every thread, but replying only to individual comments when I have something to add.  If you have noticed this and felt ignored, that is certainly not my intent, and I trust you now understand, now that you know why.

The 2014 elections are only six months away.  Republicans want to transform our nation into a totalitarian plutocracy.  They want a permanent, one-party regime in which elections exist for show only.  We must work together to stop them.

Our improved performance last month was because of you.  Thank you for everything you do, here and elsewhere.

In January, Politics Plus remained dead slow, because for most of the month, I was ill or doing volunteer work.  Nevertheless, we had an increase from December in every category, except Page Views.  There were so many days that I posted only an Open Thread that readers had little need to change pages to comment on multiple articles.

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.  This may be the last map before it resets again

Here are are top five articles:

Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs                    01/17/2010 – 1,159

A Republican Freedom                            09/24/2013 –   697

Why Fox Is Banned in Canada                 03/07/2011 –   378

Did Rachel Apologize?                             01/05/2014     343

A Woman’s Right to Choose Under Fire   01/05/2014 –   341

People came from an external site with the specific purpose of reading these articles more than any others.  It’s unfortunate that only two of the five are from last month.

Here are our top Non-blog referrers.

Stumbleupon         2,602

Care2                   1,626

Facebook                 180

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

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

http://frieddogleg.blogspot.com/
http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://alterx.blogspot.ca/
http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/
http://zenman1550.tumblr.com/
http://hamsandwich66.blogspot.com/
http://www.synapticstew.com/
http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/
http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/
http://whohijackedourcountry.blogspot.com/
http://tinfoilandtea.tumblr.com/
http://buckdogpolitics.blogspot.com/
http://disaffectedanditfeelssogood.blogspot.com/
http://rixar13.wordpress.com/

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 (78)

• Edie (65)

• Rixar13 (54)

• Lynn Squance (51)

• Joanne D (49)

• Jerry Critter (45)

• Pat A (35)

• SoINeedAName (29)

• misskitty (24)

• Angelica (16)

• James Thompson (13)

• Avril Lomas (7)

• Dotti Lydon (7)

• misstexaskitty (6)

• Arielle (5)

• Yvonne White (5)

OOPS!  That sneaky Kitty snuck in twice!! 😉

We have 241,147 links on other websites.  For a couple years now, I’ve been reporting well over one million external links.  Today I discovered that, because of the way I set up the site originally to preserve front end flexibility, it appears to Google Webmaster Tools that most of our internal links are external.  I just learned how to separate them out. and I apologize for over reporting it for so long.  I assure you that I never intended to deceive you. 

Our Technorati rating is 114, up 1 from last month, but still 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, once I started posting in sufficient quantity to justify it.

As of Midnight, February 1, we have 4,677 articles and 50,332 comments.

I recommend using 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 as your avatar.  Whenever you comment under that email address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that image will become your avatar.

We are hard pressed in an election year, and Republicans are going all out to deceive people into voting for them and prevent people they can’t fool from voting.  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.  However, they have given is many tools we can use to defeat them.  One is to make the minimum wage an issue in state and local elections, not just federal.  We must press on!

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.

I recommend using 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 email address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that image will be your avatar.

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!

In October Politics Plus improved in all monthly categories..

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 October 20.

Here are our top five articles:

Faux Noise? Faux Facts!                                  10/20/2013     1,096 Targets

Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs                                1/17/2010       768 Targets

Inaugurations: Fun Facts, Firsts & Some Trivia     1/21/2013       470 Targets

Republicans on Parade–10/8/2013                    10/08/2013      391 Targets

The World’s Most Dangerous Corporation?           10/13/2013     374 Targets

These are the times that people came from an external site with the specific purpose of reading these articles.  The third was written by our authorized author, SoINeedAName.  He and Lynn should write more.

Here are our top Non-blog referrers

Google              4,005

Care2               3,111

Stumbleupon     1,458

Reddit                  758

Facebook             125

I still have not gone back to posting on Stumbleupon yet, and I thank Richard, who has been putting our articles there.  I’m pleased with the increase in Google and Care2.

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

http://frieddogleg.blogspot.com/

http://www.synapticstew.com/

http://crackheadawards.newsvine.com

http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/

http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/

http://hamsandwich66.blogspot.com/

http://alterx.blogspot.ca/

http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/

http://www.buckdogpolitics.blogspot.ca/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com

http://xnerg.blogspot.com/

http://disaffectedanditfeelssogood.blogspot.com/

http://zenman1550.tumblr.com/

http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/

http://infidel753.blogspot.ca/

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 October.  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.  If you have a blog, news page on Care2, etc, you might want to put the link in the URL field when you comment.  That way, people interested in your comments can follow you there.

Lynn Squance (196)

Edith Belcher (123)

Rixar13 (113)

Patty (95)

Pat A (89)

Jerry Critter (44)

Joanne D (39)

Terrie Williams (20)

SoINeedAName (19)

John Dasef (17)

misskitty (12)

Arielle (9)

James Thompson (8)

mamabear (8)

Phil Hanson (8)

Steve (7)

We have 1,387,101 links on other websites, a small increase.

Our Technorati rating is way down from 481 to 132, solidly on the B List, and they rate us as the 16,843rd most influential blog in the world, out of over 80 million blogs, way down from 2973rd last month.  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 news with Technorati, we’d be A list again every month.

As of Midnight, November 1, we have 4,539 articles and 48,284 comments.

I recommend using 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 email address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that image will be your avatar.

I congratulate you all on winning the Republican Shutdown.  As much as they harmed us all, we got to watch they cave-in.  The 2014 elections are now a year away, and our job is to separate every Republican from public office that we can.  A big part of that is keeping people informed by exposing the Republican lies that media usually slip right by.  Thank you for everything you do.  Our success is your success, and thank you for making it happen!