Sunday, March 05, 2006

Top Referrers

I know there's been a lot of nitpicking as to which blogs are good, which ones are mediocre, which ones are bad, etc.

Sometimes the tale of the tape is the strength of the referral, i.e. when someone posts something on their site, how many people go click on it.

The top 25 referral rankings for the month of February to ShaunKenney.com:

1. ShaunKenney.com
2. Google
3. Fredericksburg.com (local paper)
4. Js Notes (and it's not a small number, either)
5. Commonwealth Conservative
6. One Man's Trash
7. Not Larry Sabato
8. Sic Semper Tyrannis
9. SWVA Law
10. Bacon's Rebellion
11. Too Conservative
12. SkepticalObservor
13. Virginia Centrist
14. Save the GOP
15. Elephant Ears
16. China-e-Lobby
17. NOVA Democrat
18. Waldo Jaquith
19. Commonwealth Watch
20. Pharrout
21. VA Pundette
22. Red Stater
23. From On High
24. Brian Patton
25. New Dominion

Naturally, some of the Democratic or left-leaning blogs aren't going to have as much traffic here, so the fact that sites such as Waldo Jaquith, NOVA Democrat, Virginia Centrist, and Brian Patton even show up is a good sign of the strength of their readership.

Likewise, some sites advertising has having strong readership simply didn't refer here as often (Too Conservative for instance ranks closely to archnemisis James Young's Skeptical Observor).

Interesting things to see are that the websites you would expect to remain high on the list are certainly there, such as Commonwealth Conservative, OMT, and NLS.

Some surprises too, but keep in mind that referral rates are a rather shallow judge -- though in the past getting Farked or Instalanched was a distant possibility.

Just thought it would be interesting as we're all comparing who has the biggest and baddest blog (a debate from which I will happily refrain from).

7 Comments:

At 9:25 AM, Blogger Dvt guy said...
I think people come to both of our sites for a Grover Norquist perspective on taxes.

 

At 11:56 AM, Blogger James Young said...
"Archnemisis"?!?!

I've got so many, it's hard to keep track of them....

 

At 1:24 PM, Blogger Jason Kenney said...
I have no clue how J's Notes contributes so many visits. I know that J's Notes #1 referral is thanks to Google. Given how long the site's been around and the variety of topics, it's pretty likely that any Google search will have J's Notes pop-up somewhere as a result. Maybe that leads to sk.com hits? Not sure how, but oh well...

Happy to do my part in helping to spread the Kenney Experience.

 

At 3:08 PM, Blogger Shaun Kenney said...
LOL!

Like I said Vincent, referrals are a poor indicator of readership, though to some degree it does indicate strength of readership.

I certainly didn't post this to increase referrals, I just thought it would be interesting to compare and contrast.

 

At 3:27 PM, Blogger Shaun Kenney said...
Good Lord... that's going to be a project!

 

At 9:34 PM, Blogger Shaun Kenney said...
If you are going to throw "strength of referals" out there, then show us the strength based on the number of times they refered.

Nope - that's the kind of pissing contest I hope to avoid.

If you want stats, just e-mail me and ask for 'em.

 

At 9:40 PM, Blogger Shaun Kenney said...
I appreciate that very much, Waldo.

 

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