There has been discussion in the blogosphere about whether or not it is beneficial for Hillary to be guestblogging at a site like Firedoglake. But maybe someone should be asking Firedoglake if it is beneficial to their site to have Hillary guestblogging there. A Washington Post blogger who wonders why Hillary is posting at FDL mentions that: "Clinton campaign spokesman Phil Singer said Hamsher's blog was picked because 'there are 100,000 people who frequent this site and we wanted to have a conversation with them.'"
Ann Althouse points out that FDL does not actually have 100,000 visitors a day as the WaPo declared but rather, about 80,000 visitors. After reading that yesterday, I took a look at FDL's site meter and indeed, it read at around 81,000 unique visitors for the previous week. However, today (Saturday morning), it reads only 68,485 unique visitors a day--a decrease in average traffic of over 12,000 visitors and it is not even the start of the weekend yet, so the decreased weekend traffic did not seem to account for the drop. And if you look at their traffic for the past month, there was a big spike the week before, but nothing significant when Hillary started blogging.
Wow, I know visitors can flunctuate during the week but if FDL's traffic is decreasing due to Hillary's publicity stunt, what does that say about how the site's readers feel about Hillary? She's certainly not bringing them any new traffic.
Yikes. Make an appointment with a real psychologist about your Hillary obsession.
ReplyDeleteQuack, quack.
Ahhh, the Hillary brigade is here! Insult the poster, ignore the content, try to shut them up. Where is the chat? Where is the dialogue? As phoney as her scripted "answers" in the debate.
ReplyDeleteArgue with the numbers anon! Address the issue, speak some facts.
Cluck, cluck. (That was a chicken, because, you know, you are one.)
Trey
If I actually supported Hillary, I would suggest that she not waste her time with any Southern U.S. based blogs. The written word does her lilting "Southern accent" no justice, I do declare!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 11:49:
ReplyDeleteYou wait with bated breath for every post I put up to make some comment and you call me obsessed?
I think a lot of people go outside in spring time Helen and read blogs less. Without a more extended study of their traffic patterns, you can't make conclusions like that.
ReplyDeleteYou sound like you have traffic envy, btw.
So, everyone else's blogs should be down too? Right! Will this stand scrutiny, or are you just reaching, grasping rather, at some other reason?
ReplyDeleteI can't look up another blog at Site Meter, will someone do that for me? Say Althouse, Daily Kos, Instapundit, Huffington Post, or Dr Helen? Let's see if everyone is out in the Spring weather or Anon is just out to lunch!
Trey
Allow an old newspaper man to shed some light on the subject. Newspapers readership fluctuates by day of the week, peaking on Wednesday and Thursday, dropping back on Friday. Saturday is usually the worst day. Picks up on Sunday, which is the most read paper of the week
ReplyDeleteBlogs seem to work the same way.
There is also a bell curve on time of day, etc. Prime time for TV shows is not prime time for blogs
Plus there are seasons for the different sections of the newspaper. Sports follows the sports season (duh) and politics follows the academic season -- peaking when the part-time state legislators meet in January-March (not all states are part-time but that is still the peak)
On the Editorial Page, we call it the thinking season.
The snarkiness of Anon. aside, I wouldn't expect there to be a "Weekend Effect" when the Queen of Mean herself is blogging at FDL. It's beyond the pale that sHrillary has decided to align herself with an unhinged loon such as Hamsher. Tipper must be in a swoon, knowing that the person responsible for producing a vile movie such as Natural Born Killers is now accomodating sHrillary's campaign.
ReplyDeleteThen again, maybe she's not, since liberals seem incapable of shame when they waffle around and change heart-felt convictions at the drop of new poll numbers.
Conversation, Hillary style: she talks; you listen.
ReplyDeleteYou wait with bated breath for every post I put up to make some comment and you call me obsessed?
ReplyDeleteHey, if you can be a pretend psychologist, why can't I?
"Hey, if you can be a pretend psychologist..." anonymous 1:41
ReplyDeleteYawn...but par for the course. Let's see:
Helen = pretend psychologist,
Bush 43 = stupid,
Malkin = whore,
Bush 41 = out of touch,
O'Beirne = sandpaper @#%&*!,
Reagan = amiable dunce,
Condoleeza = house n#%&*r,
Ford = klutz,
Nixon = crook,
Goldwater = psycho,
Abe Lincoln = ape-like
Am I missing any other hollow swipes?
Impressive, briannyc - though I fail to see how you can attribute any of those to me since you're the one who typed them.
ReplyDeleteYou might want to seek help for that anger problem.
You can get help for your pretend anger problem from anon the pretend psychologist!
ReplyDeleteTrey
I wonder if she'll guest host for IMAO. Our traffic has been too high lately.
ReplyDeletetmink said: "I can't look up another blog at Site Meter, will someone do that for me? Say Althouse, Daily Kos, Instapundit, Huffington Post, or Dr Helen? Let's see if everyone is out in the Spring weather or Anon is just out to lunch!"
ReplyDeleteI use that site for my own blog, but is there to check other blogs?
"Impressive, briannyc - though I fail to see how you can attribute any of those to me since you're the one who typed them." - anonymous 9:13
ReplyDeleteMore directed at the tired old template of your ilk, you're just another "groupthink" pawn to me, nothing personal.
"You might want to seek help for that anger problem." - anonymous 9:13
ReplyDeleteChuckle! I distinctly remember smiling when I typed that (it was a sunny day and my favorite song was on the radio too!)
Anon, some advice on your dime-store psychoanalysis at this site: you might want to try a "reverse George" when you think out loud (Seinfeldian for when George Costanza tried doing the opposite of everything to successfully turn his life around.)
You can get help for your pretend anger problem from anon the pretend psychologist!
ReplyDeleteThere's more than one anon playing with you.
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