Politics Plus

Congrats to Oso for posting the 12,000th comment here at Politics Plus.  We haven’t seen much of Oso recently, but since we started talking at BTR, he has made several excellent comment’s here.  We may not always agree, but his positions are always honest and well-reasoned.  He is also an excellent writer, and you can find him at Mad Mike’s America.

I considered putting off the our Monthly Report, because it’s election day, and that’s so much more important, but I decided to do it after all, because I want it out of the way for election analysis.

Our eighth full month since we moved from Blogger was even better, with improvements in every category.

Here are our basic stats:

Here is our most recent Clustrmap, last updated on September 4.

Our durations are down a tiny bit from 239 seconds last month:

Number of visits: 25603 – Average: 224 s	Number of visits	Percent
0s-30s	20704	80.8 %
30s-2mn	1190	4.6 %
2mn-5mn	915	3.5 %
5mn-15mn	1014	3.9 %
15mn-30mn	541	2.1 %
30mn-1h	709	2.7 %
1h+	530	2 %

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

Search engine referrals continue to rise.

16 different referring search engines	Pages	Percent	Hits	Percent
Google	2794	73.2 %	4214	72.5 %
Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark)	792	20.7 %	1296	22.3 %
Yahoo!	83	2.1 %	86	1.4 %
Bing	37	0.9 %	37	0.6 %
Google (Images)	29	0.7 %	60	1 %
AOL	20	0.5 %	21	0.3 %
Windows Live	20	0.5 %	35	0.6 %
Unknown search engines	17	0.4 %	20	0.3 %
Ask	13	0.3 %	13	0.2 %
Digg (Social Bookmark)	3	0 %	3	0 %
MyWebSearch	2	0 %	2	0 %
Earth Link	1	0 %	1	0 %
MSN Search	1	0 %	1	0 %
Baidu	1	0 %	1	0 %
Yandex	1	0 %	1	0 %
Go.com			18	0.3 %

Our top three non-blog referrers are:

http://www.reddit.com/ (over 5,200)

http://www.buzzflash.net/ (over 4,000)

http://www.jabberwonk.com/ (over 1600)

Our top 15 referrer blogs are: (2 extra due to a tie)

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

http://themanwhowalksalonewalksfaster.blogspot.com/

http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/

http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/

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

http://whohijackedourcountry.blogspot.com/

http://www.suprmchaos.com/home.index.html

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

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/

http://carolinaparrothead.blogspot.com/

http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/

http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/

http://okjimmseggrollemporium.blogspot.com/

http://anaverageamericanpatriot.blogspot.com/

http://www.mockpaperscissors.com/

http://jackjodell.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 decreased our global Technorati Authority from 523 to 447.  That puts us back on the B list.  Our topical ratings are 538 (US Politics), 507 (Politics) and 463 (World). I loved the A list rating, and with our increases in every other category, my only guess as to why is that there were several days in which I did not post due to illness last month.

We have 238,329 links on other websites, up from 77,704 last month.

We have 1,559 posts and 11,741 comments, as of midnight 11/1.

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 progress, and I hold you for it.  This success belongs to all of us.  Sunday, on Blog Talk Radio, Gwen was describing the blogs she visits, and she said that mush of what makes Politics Plus an exceptional blog is the quality of comments.  You deserve to feel pride here.

Our seventh full month since we moved from Blogger was another good one, with improvements in every category, except page views.  That one would have increased had I not been AWOL  due to a health problem.

Here are our basic stats:

Here is our most recent Clustrmap, last updated on September 4.

Our durations are down somewhat from 282 seconds last month:

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

Search engine responses are improving rapidly.

Our top three non-blog referrers have over 2,800 referrals each.  They are:

http://www.reddit.com/

http://www.buzzflash.net/

http://www.jabberwonk.com/

Our top 15 referrer blogs are:

http://crooksandliars.com/

http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/

http://carolinaparrothead.blogspot.com/

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

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

http://themanwhowalksalonewalksfaster.blogspot.com/

http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/

http://whohijackedourcountry.blogspot.com/

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

http://susiemadrak.com/

http://www.timsscaredstiff.com/

http://anaverageamericanpatriot.blogspot.com/

http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/

http://jbm479.blogspot.com/

http://republicandirtytricks.com/

http://reconstitution.us/rcnew/

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 497 to 523.  That puts us solidly on the A list.  Our topical ratings are 595 (US Politics), 593 (Politics) and 480 (World). Never in my wildest dreams did I foresee success at this level.  Sure I like the recognition, but my ego is not what this is about.  The more recognition we get, the more effect we can have toward ending the right-wing insanity.

We have 77,704 links on other websites, up from 47,131 last month.

We have 1,449 posts and 10,845 comments, as of midnight 10/1.

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 ecstatic our progress, and thank you for it.  This success belongs to all of us.  Several people have told me that a main factor that brings them back is the quality of the replies to the messages, so this goodness is your fault too.  Give yourselves a hand.