Politics Plus

In July, Politics Plus performed poorly in every category.  Uniques, visits, page views, hits and bandwidth are all down from June’s record.  I consider page views most important, because to generate more than one page view on a visit, someone has to open other pages to actually read them.  There are several reasons for the decrease.  One of our biggest non-blog referrers received complaints from people who do not want this message heard.  We I was banned from posting our links.  When I finally learned what happened, I contacted their management, and we worked it out, but most of the month was gone. The other reason is the time I missed with health problems.

Here are our basic stats:

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

Our Clustrmap reset the morning of 2/28, starting over from scratch. The largest circles represent over 1,000 visits.  The tiniest represent one to ten.

Our average durations were up from 219 seconds last month:

Number of visits: 35728 – Average: 240 s	Number of visits	Percent
0s-30s	28357	79.3 %
30s-2mn	2072	5.7 %
2mn-5mn	1249	3.4 %
5mn-15mn	1231	3.4 %
15mn-30mn	925	2.5 %
30mn-1h	1175	3.2 %
1h+	719	2 %

That’s normal, because fewer visitors usually spend more time here individually.

Search engine referrals were down considerably.

21 different referring search engines	Pages	Percent	Hits	Percent
Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark)	10713	75.6 %	13705	71.3 %
Google	2701	19 %	4568	23.7 %
Microsoft MSN Search	385	2.7 %	387	2 %
Yahoo!	108	0.7 %	166	0.8 %
Microsoft Bing	74	0.5 %	114	0.5 %
Unknown search engines	39	0.2 %	40	0.2 %
Ask	38	0.2 %	38	0.1 %
AOL	31	0.2 %	32	0.1 %
Microsoft Windows Live	19	0.1 %	48	0.2 %
Google (Images)	16	0.1 %	27	0.1 %
Yandex	10	0 %	49	0.2 %
MyWebSearch	7	0 %	12	0 %
Dogpile	3	0 %	5	0 %
Rambler	3	0 %	3	0 %
Earth Link	2	0 %	2	0 %
Web.de	2	0 %	2	0 %
Alexa	1	0 %	1	0 %
ix quick	1	0 %	1	0 %
Baidu			2	0 %
Mamma			1	0 %
Excite			2	0 %

Our top four non-blog referrers are:

http://buzzflash.net/             4,000+

http://www.care2.com/          3,850+

http://www.jabberwonk.com/    850+

http://www.facebook.com/l.php 650+

Our top 15 blog referrers are:

http://jbm479.wordpress.com/

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

http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/

http://themanwhowalksalonewalksfaster.blogspot.com/

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

http://opovet.blogspot.com/

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/

http://whohijackedourcountry.blogspot.com/

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

http://themoderatevoice.com/

http://jackjodell53.wordpress.com/

http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/

http://katieschwartz.com/

http://justanothercoverup.com/

http://alterx.blogspot.com/

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.  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 URL, they are my work.

Here are the top fifteen commenters for June.

Lisa G. (160)

Memphis Johnny (151)

SoINeedAName (90)

Patty (82)

Jerry Critter (55)

Phyllis (55)

Jack Jodell (40)

TWM (33)

Blue (30)

Lee (30)

Charles (24)

AnnH (16)

Leslie Parsley (13)

Ahab (11)

Tom (11)

The widget is in the right column.  I don’t count, as I’m the resident big mouth, and I try to reply to every comment.  Those who leave their URLs in their comments, get linkey love.

Technorati finally makes sense this month.  Our performance was off and so were our ratings.  We are now B list again.

We have 600,279 links on other websites, up from 485,496 from last month.

We have 2,603 articles and 21,341 comments, as of midnight 8/1.

We have new wacky avatars, and I rotate them each month, but 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 e mail address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that image will be your avatar.

Your participation remains what makes this blog worth reading, not to mention worth writing.  Many people who visit here have told me  that they come here to read your comments in addition to my articles.  Politics Plus exists to help end right-wing insanity.  Thank you all for all you do, here and elsewhere, to help make that happen.

This is Nameless third Big Mouth Award, having won last September and last May.  He isn’t a blogger, so you can’t follow him home, but he comments almost daily here.  His ability to come up with links to increase our understanding on virtually any subject is still a gift for which I am very grateful.  I have even seen his comments here discussed on other sites.

Congrats, Nameless!

Congrats to Infidel for posting the 20,000th comment here at Politics Plus.  Infidel has been an occasional regular here for years and won his last award in April, 2010.  We can always count on him for excellent comments, and he writes a fine blog of his own.  You can find him at Infidel 753.

From now on, Big Mouth Awards are for even thousands, and the new list is in the right sidebar.

Here are the results of the Obama opponents poll.

And here are your comments.

From wk on June 30, 2011 at 10:05 am. 

 

No one

 

From Terry King on June 27, 2011 at 4:10 pm. 

 

Seriously, if we can’t pull off a win over this line up the Progressives had better fold their tents. Excuse the mixed metaphor.

 

From JimmyD on June 25, 2011 at 8:01 am. 

 

I am pretty sure by that list that Mickey Mouse would be the only one with enough clout and wherewithal to even come close to challenging Obama in 2012. Let alone just speak intelligently.

 

From M. F. Stone on June 23, 2011 at 1:38 pm. 

 

I’d vote Mickey over any of those bum####s. But hey, the "TODAY’S LUCKY VISITOR" AD IS SUPER SUPER SUPER SUPER TOTALLY ABSOLUTELY MIND-BOGGLINGLY OUT-OF-THIS-DAMN-WORLD SLAP-ME SILLY-AND-MAKE-ME-FART-PINK-ELEPHANTS ANNNNNOOOOOYYYYIIIINNNNG

AND THERE’S NO WAY TO GET RID OF IT. Never visiting this site again.

 

From Mugster on June 22, 2011 at 10:30 pm. 

 

C’mon people, let’s be serious.

If you really wanted "change", it’s Ron Paul.

 

From Memphis Johnny on June 21, 2011 at 3:40 pm. 

 

Gaaa! I messed up! I voted other! I didn’t see "Mickey Mouse"!!!

 

 

From eric s on June 20, 2011 at 1:16 pm. 

 

even the reagans hated the bushes

 

From Consuelo on June 18, 2011 at 9:11 am. 

 

remember that jeb was gov when his bro "the shrub" "won" the presidency in 2000. they are all lying crooks and would do anything to run this country into the ground. the bushes are all lying crooks and worst of all the are repugs. purge the repugs from all forms of govt if you want this country to succeed.

 

From mk_inwa on June 18, 2011 at 5:15 am. 

 

Best for which side?

 

From TomCat in reply to mk_inwa on June 19, 2011 at 12:56 am. 

 

best as in get the most votes.

 

 From Lisa G. on June 17, 2011 at 11:54 pm. 

At least Mickey Mouse would be funny and out of that line up William Young is right. And who voted for Michelle Bachmann – that’s a joke right? You know the woman is not safe to walk the streets by herself and is certifiable right?

 

 

 From Donna F in reply to Lisa G. on June 18, 2011 at 6:54 pm. 

If our gov’t was as it should be, the way our founding fathers intended, then finding a president would be easy. Now we have to find one who will give up the power and put it back the way it was meant to be. Only Bachmann would do that.

 

 From JimmyD in reply to Donna F on June 25, 2011 at 7:59 am. 

I hope and pray you are joking…that big mouth lame brain couldn’t think her way out of a straight tunnel.

 

 From Lisa G. in reply to Donna F on June 19, 2011 at 11:47 am. 

And I have a feeling that Mickey Mouse a) doesn’t have anything in his background that would be questionable and b) is probably smarter than all the candidates combined.

 

 

 From William Young on June 17, 2011 at 11:19 pm. 

Mickey Mouse is the only one with anything resembling brains.

 

 

 From RChas on June 17, 2011 at 1:23 pm. 

Jeb Bush would be the darling of the Tea Partyers — he destroyed Florida’s educational system — substituted ‘standardized tests’ for teacher’s judgment.

Actually this was two polls in one.  In the poll between cartoon characters, Mickey Mouse beat Ron Paul.  In the poll between real candidates, Romney won.

I voted for Huntsman.  Like Romney he’s comparatively low on insaniTEA, but he’s more unknown, and his own dog won’t be campaigning against him.

For our nation’s birthday, the new poll questions what our founding fathers might think.