Lynn Squance has a BIG Mouth! ;-)

 Posted by at 7:15 am  Blog News
Nov 072012
 

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Lynn has now won her third Big Mouth Award.  For several months she has been our top commentator, and is also one of only two people, other than myself, that I have authorized to post articles here, although we are still waiting for her first.  Lynn is a denizen of Care2, and is still a Canadian, although we need to steal her.  I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating.  If 10% of US citizens had half the knowledge of and insight into US politics that this Canadian gal regularly displays, our country would be far better off.  Congrats Lynn!  She is a treasure, whose contribution to this site cannot be overstated.  Please join me in giving her the kudos she so well deserves.

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Monthly Report for October 2012

 Posted by at 8:42 am  Blog News, Monthly Report
Nov 022012
 

In October, traffic here at Politics Plus was up in all major categories, except Page Views, which was way down.  This has me completely baffled, because with such a major decrease in Page Views, there would be no way to maintain the Hits and Bandwidth, let alone increase them.  About a year ago, there was an inexplicable increase in Page Views that lasted for almost a years.  I suspect that AW Stats changed how they count views back then and just changed it back.

Reported period

Month Oct 2012

 

 

 

 

First visit

01 Oct 2012 – 00:00

 

 

 

 

Last visit

31 Oct 2012 – 23:59

 

 

 

 

 

Unique visitors

Number of visits

Pages

Hits

Bandwidth

Viewed traffic *

16,551

39,818

(2.4 visits/visitor)

192,017

(4.82 Pages/Visit)

787,418

(19.77 Hits/Visit)

19.91 GB

(524.29 KB/Visit)

Not viewed traffic *

 

 

314,063

382,463

9.44 GB

The first time someone comes to the site during a month, they are counted as a Unique Visitor and a Visit.  Subsequent visits are counted as visits only.  Every time someone visits or changes pages that counts as a Page View.  Any time a file on the server is accessed, that counts as a Hit.  Bandwidth is how much data is transferred from the site.  One byte is enough to store one letter of text.  19.91 GB is a little more than 19,910,000,000 bytes. 

Not viewed traffic is recorded when people read our blog without coming here, using RSS Readers, such as Feed Demon, and Aggregation sites, such as Google Reader and MyWeb.  Combining the two, we landed eyeballs on over half a million pages last month.

Here are our 2011 stats.

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And here are our 2012 stats so you can compare them.

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Here is our most recent ClustrMap, last updated on October 1.  Note that our map reset on February 28.  The largest circles represent over 1,000 visits. The tiniest represent one to ten.  I feel thrilled that folks come here from all around the world.

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Durations measure how much time people spend here on each visit.  The following chart breaks it down by ranges.  Our average durations were down an average of 5 seconds.

umber of visits: 39,818 – Average: 258 s

Number of visits

Percent

0s-30s

32,947

82.7 %

30s-2mn

1,671

4.1 %

2mn-5mn

928

2.3 %

5mn-15mn

983

2.4 %

15mn-30mn

686

1.7 %

30mn-1h

1,543

3.8 %

1h+

1,060

2.6 %

That’s not bad at all, because we had more visitors.

Here are our top five articles for October.

A Reason to Support Elizabeth Warren          10/03/2012     1,791 views

Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs                            1/17/2010          938 views

Bainport Is Growing                                     10/13/2012          900 views

Open Thread–5/12/2012                                5/12/2012          867 views

Why Fox Is Banned in Canada                        3/07/2011          776 views

None or our articles became viral last month, sadly, but it is interesting to note that we are still getting traffic on items several years old.

Anytime someone comes here by clicking a link on another site, that is a referral.  We divide referrals between search engines, other major sites that are not search engines (Care2, Reddit, etc.), and blogs or news sites.

Search engine referrals were up.

20 different referring search engines

Pages

Percent

Hits

Percent

Google

9652

68.3 %

18,674

76.3 %

Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark)

2797

19.8 %

2,950

12 %

Microsoft Bing

923

6.5 %

1,389

5.6 %

Yahoo!

465

3.2 %

728

2.9 %

Google (Images)

103

0.7 %

337

1.3 %

Unknown search engines

60

0.4 %

71

0.2 %

AOL

33

0.2 %

38

0.1 %

Yandex

25

0.1 %

65

0.2 %

Microsoft MSN Search

18

0.1 %

18

0 %

Ask

14

0 %

14

0 %

Microsoft Windows Live

8

0 %

52

0.2 %

Dogpile

7

0 %

11

0 %

MyWebSearch

7

0 %

7

0 %

WebCrawler

2

0 %

2

0 %

InfoSpace

2

0 %

2

0 %

Searchalot

1

0 %

1

0 %

Earth Link

1

0 %

1

0 %

Digg (Social Bookmark)

1

0 %

1

0 %

Lycos

1

0 %

1

0 %

Go.com

 

 

111

0.4 %

Our top five non-blog referral sites are:

http://www.care2.com/               2,098

http://www.reddit.com/               1,071

http://jabberwonk.com/                  917

http://www.tumblr.com/                 426

https://www.facebook.com/             399

All are up, except Tumblr.

Our top 15 blog/news referral sites are:

http://crooksandliars.com/

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

http://www.roseanneworld.com/

http://www.rumormillnews.com/

http://www.synapticstew.com/

http://amelio.newsvine.com/

http://frieddogleg.blogspot.com/

http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/

http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/

http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/

http://www.infidel753.blogspot.com/

http://www.independentaustralia.net/

http://progressiveerupts.blogspot.com/

http://republic-of-gilead.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.mockpaperscissors.com/

http://disaffectedanditfeelssogood.blogspot.com/

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/

http://okjimmseggrollemporium.blogspot.com/

http://nutsandolts.com/

There was a five way tie for 15th.  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 September.  I remembered and copied them off in time.  That’s two months in a row!  I don’t count, as I’m the resident big mouth, and I try to reply to every comment, except replies directed at someone else.  Those who leave their URLs in their comments, also get linkey-love here.

Lynn Squance (185)

Patty (177)

SoINeedAName (62)

Phyllis (53)

Jerry Critter (51)

Rixar13 (49)

Edith Belcher (39)

Angelica (22)

Gypsy (12)

Steve (8)

Lisa Gunther (7)

Marva (7)

Lee Evans (6)

mamabear (6)

tasunka maza (5)

Yvonne White (5)

We have 672,146 links on other websites, an increase of over 100,000.

Our Technorati.rating is up to 137, still low on the B list.  Despite over half a million links, Technorati only recognizes links on sites that have registered at Technorati.  Because we had so much traffic on Buzzflash.net, a registered site, we used to be an A list blog.  Buzzflash.net is gone and with the slowdown, we’re back to B list.  If only Care2 were to register with Technorati, we’d be in fat city, because any article that makes it to Care2’s front page should count.  In fact, would someone who knows the people who run Care2 ask if they have any intent to register with Technorati, and if not, encourage them to do so?

We have 3,805 articles and 36,731 comments, as of midnight November 1.

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.

Your participation remains a major part of what makes this blog worth reading, not to mention worth writing.  Thank you all for all you do, here and elsewhere, to support progressive solutions.  Together we are make are difference, and I hope I can keep my own participation up sufficiently to be worthy of you.

We are still  well under the traffic we had a year ago.  That’s only partially because I’m posting a little less than I did then to take better care of myself.  The big reason we’re down is still that many of the tools I used to publicize our articles are no longer available. That makes your help that much more important.  We are less 4 days from an election upon which America’s future depends.  We still have lots of work to do.

I hope that the additional explanation had made the numbers easier to understand.  Please let me know what I need to improve.

Overall, I’m very pleased with last month’s performance.  I would not be  at all surprised to see a significant decrease in traffic for the next few months, because so many are burned out from the election effort.

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Poll Results–11/1/2012

 Posted by at 9:36 am  Blog News, Politics
Nov 012012
 

Here are the results of our poll on the importance of the last two debates on the presidential election.  While the respondents are not demographically balanced, the poll contains no internal bias.

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And here are your comments.

Posted by lucy j. on October 30, 2012 at 1:15 am. 

 

debates are really only my opinion against your opinion. The world does not run on debates. When world leaders meet behind closed doors they do not waste time on debates only policy. "Here’s what I’m willing to do and then show me what you are willing to do ".

 

Posted by Yvonne White on October 28, 2012 at 7:44 pm. 

 

The debates are for show – If someone is waiting until the debates to decide, then they’re just lazy probably stupid enough to be a Teabagger.

 

Posted by Rixar13 on October 25, 2012 at 6:36 pm. 

 

Very important –

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Posted by Dad4theFuture on October 24, 2012 at 6:56 pm. 

 

I think it should be important, but it seems many of our country are now saying only the first was…and not just Faux news or Romneyites

 

Posted by Lynn Squance on October 19, 2012 at 2:47 am. 

 

I said very important for 3 reasons:

1) there are still some undecided voters (which I personally find hard to believe given that the campaign is over a year long);

2) after Mr Obama’s less than stellar performance at the first debate, people needed to see the passion of 2008 standing up for the people against the Reichwingnuts;

3) because of the time limits, all the topics of concern can’t be covered adequately in one debate. It’s foolish to even try.

I hope that Mr Obama will come out swinging again in the 3rd debate. As Muhammad Ali said "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee!"

 

Posted by Patty on October 16, 2012 at 9:39 pm. 

 

I still think the debates are important. Tonight Pres. Obama was able to refute Rmoney’s lies and explain how he changed his position on nearly everything since winning the RepublicanT primary. Candy Crowley even called him on one fact he got wrong.

It was priceless!

I voted Somewhat Important, instead of Very Important because so many voters have already decided.  I expected that a strong performance by Obama would stop the momentum Romney gained in the first debate, but not reverse all the gains he made by appearing more moderate than he is to lazy, uninformed voters, and itr appears that I was correct.

Our new poll is appropriate for this time.  I bet you can guess what my vote is!

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Open Thread–10/31/2012

 Posted by at 1:36 pm  Blog News, Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Oct 312012
 

Yesterday, computerizing my friend’s bookkeeping went as well as could be expected under the circumstances.  I voted for Democrats.  I’m sorry to announce that the HSP’s server, on which Politics Plus runs, went down, forcing the blog offline from around 11:30 PM (PDT) until 4:30 AM, and again from around 7:30 AM until just a few minutes ago.  In addition,m several sites where I do research were down too.  I’m current with replies.  Tomorrow appears routine.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:02 (average 4:52).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From MoveOn: A Chilling Clip That Illustrates What Happens When Latinos Don’t Vote

 

This is so true and not just for Latinos. Republicans are working overtime to dehumanize ALL the people they are trying to disenfranchise.

From Huffington Post: Mitt Romney refused to answer reporters’ questions about how he would handle the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), after a Tuesday "storm relief" event in Ohio for Hurricane Sandy.

Gee!  I wonder why!  Cof folks actually be glad to have FEMA at the moment!

From The New Yorker: Hitting the campaign trail one day after the arrival of Superstorm Sandy, Republican nominee Mitt Romney tweaked his position on abortion today, saying he now supports it in cases where it makes people vote for him.

“I would make an exception for abortion in cases where the life of my campaign is at stake,” he told a crowd in Kettering, Ohio.

Sandy, which slammed into the East Coast last night, was such a powerful weather system that it prevented Mr. Romney from changing his position on abortion for twenty-four hours.

Poor Little Lord Willard!  That must have been sooooooo painful!  For him, being unable to lie must have been like eating a triple-portion of twelve alarm chili and having a corked butt!

Cartoon:

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Re-Elect Barack Obama!

 Posted by at 10:57 am  Blog News, Politics
Oct 282012
 

This year, I have not made a formal Presidential endorsement for Politics Plus.  To be honest, it slipped my mind, considering that figuring out whom I support does not require rocket science.  Nevertheless, yesterday I decided that it is time to endorse Barack Obama and Joe Biden now.  I’m especially pleased that I can do so in good company.

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The economy is slowly recovering from the 2008 meltdown, and the country could suffer another recession if the wrong policies take hold. The United States is embroiled in unstable regions that could easily explode into full-blown disaster. An ideological assault from the right has started to undermine the vital health reform law passed in 2010. Those forces are eroding women’s access to health care, and their right to control their lives. Nearly 50 years after passage of the Civil Rights Act, all Americans’ rights are cheapened by the right wing’s determination to deny marriage benefits to a selected group of us. Astonishingly, even the very right to vote is being challenged.That is the context for the Nov. 6 election, and as stark as it is, the choice is just as clear.

President Obama has shown a firm commitment to using government to help foster growth. He has formed sensible budget policies that are not dedicated to protecting the powerful, and has worked to save the social safety net to protect the powerless. Mr. Obama has impressive achievements despite the implacable wall of refusal erected by Congressional Republicans so intent on stopping him that they risked pushing the nation into depression, held its credit rating hostage, and hobbled economic recovery.

Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, has gotten this far with a guile that allows him to say whatever he thinks an audience wants to hear. But he has tied himself to the ultraconservative forces that control the Republican Party and embraced their policies, including reckless budget cuts and 30-year-old, discredited trickle-down ideas. Voters may still be confused about Mr. Romney’s true identity, but they know the Republican Party, and a Romney administration would reflect its agenda. Mr. Romney’s choice of Representative Paul Ryan as his running mate says volumes about that.

We have criticized individual policy choices that Mr. Obama has made over the last four years, and have been impatient with his unwillingness to throw himself into the political fight. But he has shaken off the hesitancy that cost him the first debate, and he approaches the election clearly ready for the partisan battles that would follow his victory.

We are confident he would challenge the Republicans in the “fiscal cliff” battle even if it meant calling their bluff, letting the Bush tax cuts expire and forcing them to confront the budget sequester they created. Electing Mr. Romney would eliminate any hope of deficit reduction that included increased revenues.

In the poisonous atmosphere of this campaign, it may be easy to overlook Mr. Obama’s many important achievements, including carrying out the economic stimulus, saving the auto industry, improving fuel efficiency standards, and making two very fine Supreme Court appointments… [emphasis added]

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This article goes on for over two pages listing the Obama’s accomplishments.  I strongly urge you to click through, because this is must read material.

In addition to endorsing Obama and Biden, I’m going to do something I have never done before, and I hope to God I never have to do so again.  I ask and urge every American voter to vote a straight Democratic ticket for all federal, state and local offices from dog catcher up.  In the process, I admit I’m asking you to vote for some people, who do not deserve your vote by any stretch of the imagination.  However, that that traitorous, scum sucking, good for nothing DINO, whom you would love so much to vote out, may just be the person whose election, will keep the Republican Party from winning the Senate, or a state legislature.  The winning party determines what comes to the floor and controls the agendas for legislative committees.  Under no circumstances should that power be subject to Republican abuse and corruption anywhere.

The only exceptions are races where a left-leaning independent has a better chance of beating the Republican than the Democratic candidate, such as Angus King in Maine.

Barack Obama for President!!!

Joe Biden for Vice President!!

Every Republican in office is one Republican too many!

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Poll Results–10/16/2012

 Posted by at 8:10 am  Blog News, Politics
Oct 162012
 

Here are the results of our Legislature Outcomes Poll.  It reflects only the views of the people who responded, because the respondents were not selected to conform with national demographics.  However the poll contains no internal bias.

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And here are your comments.

Posted by Fred Lemon on October 13, 2012 at 5:02 am. 

 

I agree with Lynn on this. Redistricting has too strong a stranglehold for incumbents and the GOP is pretty much in control at the local level.

 

Posted by Lynn Squance on October 7, 2012 at 2:04 am. 

 

I would definitely like to see the Democrats take the House and hold the Senate! — my fondest dream come true but Nancy Pelosi seems to think it can happen.

I think they will hold the Senate and maybe add a seat or two. But like Nameless, I am not going to bet anything I’d care to lose on the Democrats taking the House. Oh, but wouldn’t it be sweet music! And then it would be so worth listening to the GOP 2 year olds having a kicking and screaming tantrum!!

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Posted by Rixar13 on October 5, 2012 at 12:56 pm. 

 

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Can Democrats hold the Senate and take the House?

Both –

 

Posted by Yvonne White on October 1, 2012 at 1:39 pm. 

 

It Shouldn’t even be close – but we know there’s a lot of Koch-suckers willing to cheat!

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Posted by Archie Burke in reply to Yvonne White on October 3, 2012 at 8:10 pm. 

 

I challenge the Koch,s their succers to deny their pro-republican bias is due to their European gangster bosses!

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Posted by Patty on October 1, 2012 at 10:09 am. 

 

I am really hoping for the to get control of both the House Senate.

 

Posted by SoINeedAName on September 30, 2012 at 7:19 pm. 

 

A tug-of-war between "Hope" (take control of both) and "Reality" (hold the Senate)

… Reality won

I voted Hold Senate, because Republican wins at the state level in 2010 allowed them to Gerrymander enough safe districts to hold onto the House.  May the majority be correct!

The new poll is on the importance of the last two debates.  Vote!  More important…

VOTE!

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Tasunka Has a BIG Mouth! ;-)

 Posted by at 10:04 am  Blog News
Oct 132012
 

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Tasunka comes to us from Care2, where she frequently comments on PP articles, but this was only her second or third comment here at the site.  She goes by SiouxZ, because she is  Sioux, and is one of the most diverse and fascinating people I have been privileged to know online.  She lives in the Virgin Islands, but will have to explain for herself, why they did not change the name upon her arrival.  She is an activist for the environment, Native American rights, and other progressive issues.  Most unusual, she is a sailor gal, who travels the world in her own boat, so we never know where she is at any given time, except that she is at sea.  I took the liberty of swiping a picture of her boat from her Care2 profile.

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Congrats, SiouxZ.  I’m very glad that you’re here.

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Monthly Report for September 2012

 Posted by at 1:04 pm  Blog News, Monthly Report
Oct 022012
 

In September, traffic here at Politics Plus was up in all major categories.  The reason was obvious.  After August’s health issues, I was here for more days.  Because of requests from several readers, I’ll be explaining the data in more detail to help make it easier to understand.

Reported period

Month Sep 2012

 

 

 

 

First visit

01 Sep 2012 – 00:00

 

 

 

 

Last visit

30 Sep 2012 – 23:59

 

 

 

 

 

Unique visitors

Number of visits

Pages

Hits

Bandwidth

Viewed traffic *

13,366

31,162

(2.33 visits/visitor)

353,488

(11.34 Pages/Visit)

785,344

(25.2 Hits/Visit)

15.66 GB

(527.03 KB/Visit)

Not viewed traffic *

 

 

284,169

345,904

9.31 GB

The first time someone comes to the site during a month, they are counted as a Unique Visitor and a Visit.  Subsequent visits are counted as visits only.  Every time someone visits or changes pages that counts as a Page View.  Any time a file on the server is accessed, that counts as a Hit.  Bandwidth is how much data is transferred from the site.  One byte is enough to store one letter of text.  15.66 GB is a little more than 15,660,000,000 bytes. 

Not viewed traffic is recorded when people read our blog without coming here, using RSS Readers, such as Feed Demon, and Aggregation sites, such as Google Reader and MyWeb.  Combining the two, we landed eyeballs on over half a million pages this month.

Here are our 2011 stats.

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And here are our 2012 stats so you can compare them.

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Here is our most recent ClustrMap, last updated on October 1.  Note that our map reset on February 28.  The largest circles represent over 1,000 visits. The tiniest represent one to ten.

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Durations measure how much time people spend here on each visit.  The following chart breaks it down by ranges.  Our average durations were down an average of 5 seconds.

Number of visits: 31,162 – Average: 263 s

Number of visits

Percent

0s-30s

25,505

81.8 %

30s-2mn

1,476

4.7 %

2mn-5mn

694

2.2 %

5mn-15mn

840

2.6 %

15mn-30mn

624

2 %

30mn-1h

1,178

3.7 %

1h+

845

2.7 %

That’s not bad at all, because we had many more visitors.

Here are our top five articles for September.

Election Projection–9/16/2012                  9/16/2012        780 Views

Welcome to Autumn!                              9/22/2012         642 Views

When It Didn’t Trickle Down…                   9/16/2012         564 Views

Republican Supply-side Jesus on Display     7/24/2012         504 Views

The Marianas Plank                                 9/02/2012         482 Views

None or our articles became viral last month, sadly..

Anytime someone comes here by clicking a link on another site, that is a referral.  We divide referrals between search engines, other major sites that are not search engines, blogs, or news media (Care2, Reddit, etc.), and blogs or news sites.

Search engine referrals were up.

21 different referring search engines

Pages

Percent

Hits

Percent

Google

7559

70 %

16,004

79.2 %

Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark)

2353

21.8 %

2,523

12.4 %

Microsoft Bing

431

3.9 %

643

3.1 %

Yahoo!

253

2.3 %

407

2 %

Google (Images)

69

0.6 %

203

1 %

AOL

35

0.3 %

40

0.1 %

Unknown search engines

34

0.3 %

40

0.1 %

Yandex

16

0.1 %

37

0.1 %

Ask

13

0.1 %

13

0 %

Dogpile

7

0 %

11

0 %

Earth Link

5

0 %

5

0 %

MyWebSearch

5

0 %

5

0 %

Microsoft MSN Search

2

0 %

2

0 %

WebCrawler

2

0 %

2

0 %

Microsoft Windows Live

2

0 %

25

0.1 %

InfoSpace

1

0 %

1

0 %

Web.de

1

0 %

1

0 %

Avantfind

 

 

1

0 %

MetaCrawler (Metamoteur)

 

 

1

0 %

Excite

 

 

1

0 %

Go.com

 

 

224

1.1 %

Our top five non-blog referral sites are:

http://www.care2.com/            1,872

http://www.reddit.com/              764

http://www.jabberwonk.com/      737

http://www.tumblr.com/             486

https://www.facebook.com/        313

All five are up.

Our top 15 blog/news referral sites are:

http://infidel753.blogspot.ca/

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

http://synapticstew.com/

http://www.roseanneworld.com/

http://frieddogleg.blogspot.com/

http://www.sodahead.com/

http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/

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

http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/

http://progressiveerupts.blogspot.com/

http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/

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

http://amelio.newsvine.com/

http://www.thescienceforum.com/

http://reconstitution.us/rcnew/

http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/

There was a two way tie for 15th.  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 September.  I actually remembered and copied them off in time.  I don’t count, as I’m the resident big mouth, and I try to reply to every comment, except replies directed at someone else.  Those who leave their URLs in their comments, also get linkey-love here.

Lynn Squance (138)

Patty (125)

SoINeedAName (53)

Jerry Critter (50)

Edith Belcher (36)

Phyllis (31)

Rixar13 (31)

mamabear (18)

Angelica (17)

Lisa Gunther (16)

Gypsy (15)

Lee Evans (14)

John Dasef (6)

Marva (6)

Steve (6)

We have 552,775 links on other websites, a slight decrease.

Our Technorati.rating is up to 121, still low on the B list.  Despite over half a million links, Technorati only recognizes links on sites that have registered at Technorati.  Because we had so much traffic on Buzzflash.net, a registered site, we used to be an A list blog.  Buzzflash.net is gone and with the slowdown, we’re back to B list.  If only Care2 were to register with Technorati, we’d be in fat city, because any article that makes it to Care2’s front page should count.

We have 3,718 articles and 35,481 comments, as of midnight October 1.

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.

Your participation remains a major part of what makes this blog worth reading, not to mention worth writing.  Thank you all for all you do, here and elsewhere, to support progressive solutions.  Together we are make are difference, and I hope I can keep my own participation up sufficiently to be worthy of you.

We are still  well under the traffic we had a year ago.  That’s only partially because I’m posting a little less than I did then to take better care of myself.  The big reason we’re down is still that many of the tools I used to publicize our articles are no longer available. That makes your help that much more important.  We are less than 40 days from an election upon which America’s future depends.  We still have lots of work to do.

I hope that the additional explanation had made the numbers easier to understand.  Please let me know what I need to improve.

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