After two months the Red County blog has at last managed to move slightly ahead of us in the Alexa.com blog rankings. I would imagine that the current state budget crisis and presidential race are giving our red-faced “friends” a boost.
Here are the latest Orange County political blog rankings, according to the globally recognized website readership data company, Alexa.com, which is owned and managed by Amazon.com:
- Red County – Global Ranking: 166,011
- The Orange Juice Blog – Global Ranking: 224,572
- Bolsavik – Global Ranking: 353,864
- The Liberal OC – Global Ranking: 929,589
- John Seiler’s Blog – Global Ranking: 648,406
- Flash Report – Global Ranking: 855,869
- Irvine Tattler – Global Ranking: 1,945,536
- Greater Orange News Report – Global Ranking: 4,798,410
- La Naraja – Global Ranking: 7,911,105
It looks like Bolsavik has really gained a lot of ground this summer! And you have to figure that the Liberal OC will start to pick up as the presidential campaign continues. They do best during elections. And the Flash Report has continued their summer swoon. Are they at all relevant anymore? They have in fact been surpassed by John Seiler’s excellent blog. Kudos to Seiler! He deserves the success.
…and Art continues his obsession with the flawed Alexa.com system, and rankings in general.
Matt/Jubal,
Geez. Even when they rank you ahead of my blog you cannot be pleased. Que chillon!
Uhhh… Matt?
YOURS is the first comment. When will you read between the lines and realize that Art’s ‘obsession’ is shared between the two of you?
I’m not telling you not to comment. Normally, I respect your opinions even if I don’t agree with them. I’m just saying that your comment is number one… and Art even complimented your blog!
Without evidence to the contrary, I would not attempt to debate Art on the rankings if I were you, but I do appreciate your right to keep adding fuel to the fire.
SMS
VIVA EL CHISME, OC JUICE SHOULD BE NUMBER ONE.
VIVA LOS GABACHOS ART AND THOMAS GORDON
THEIR THE BEST IN THE WEST AND ORANGE COUNTY.
AND IF DONT LIKE IT THAN UR JUST JELOUS
AND U NEED JESUS IN UR LIFE ..
Art and Sarah:
It doesn’t matter whether Alexa ranks Red County first, last or in the middle. My point is that Alexa is screwy, the whole concept that this is the “real” OC political blog ranking is phony, and no one else in the local blogosphere obsesses about rankings.
And Sarah: since when is calling us “red-faced” a compliment?
Matt/Jubal,
Alexa is owned and managed by Amazon.com, one of the biggest and most successful global corporations. Do you really think they would put out a crappy product? Really? I don’t think so.
You want to prove otherwise then post your readership data.
Congrats BTW on being number one again. Enjoy it while it lasts…
Alexa is owned and managed by Amazon.com, one of the biggest and most successful global corporations. Do you really think they would put out a crappy product? Really? I don’t think so.
The bought a heavily trafficked site to plug into their online empire. That doesn’t mean Alexa isn’t a screwy ranking program. You can Google as well as I can, so I’m sure you’re aware of it’s rep in the techie community.
I love John Seiler, but do you honestly think his blog has more readers than the FlashReport? Give me a break.
Matt –
‘And Sarah: since when is calling us “red-faced” a compliment?‘
Point taken, but I’m pretty sure Art’s just messing with you.
SMS
Just a quick update: OJ and Red County are in a statistical dead heat for readership. Thank you. Please return to your regularly scheduled pointless argument already in progress. 😛
RC: #219,545
OJ: #220,562
That’s the 3-month Alexa.
SMS