BSB’s BS Counter? Busted State Blog? Convincing Follow-up Evidence
After a grudge rematch on the home turf on Monday (see comments section at link), Bill Sloat at The Bellwether Daily played host to BSB III — yet another tussle between various parties currently and previously involved with Buckeye State Blog.
If there’s to be a Part IV, they should consider selling tickets.
In the final (at the moment) anonymous comment, the dispute over 2006 traffic count inflation into was put into a pretty damning (to BSB) context (link in comment is to this Sunday BizzyBlog post):
The Site Statistics through the Blog Ad network show BSB gets 14,349 ad impressions - if you look at Liberal Oasis - www.liberaloasis.com which is listed higher with 15,164 ad impressions then look at their sitemeter? They list they have 1,616 visitors per day. First Draft which is above Liberal Oasis in ad impressions by just a bit has a daily average visitor number of 1,442.
This means it is pretty far fetched for BSB to be getting 6,969 visits a day that Russell stated they were getting that BizzyBlog pointed out was said. Or there has been one hell of a drop in daily visitors.
Confirmation from Blogads (put “Buckeye” into the search at the link):
14,507 “ad impressions” per week is 2,072 per day. That’s 70% less than the 6,969 daily visitors claimed in August 2006, as noted in Sunday’s BizzyBlog post.
But (correct me if I’m wrong) “ad impressions” is supposed to be the same as “page views,” not visitors. In August 2006, BSB claimed 3,000,000 page views in 150 days, or 20,000 per day. If I’m right, and if BSB was right about its page views last year, its current traffic is barely 10% (2,072/20,000) of what it was.
(To avoid the inevitable snark — yes, I know that BSB’s traffic is currently higher than mine.)
I suppose the next argument from my correspondent who claimed that Alexa is often not accurate will be that Blogads, whose entire business model depends on quoting accurate ad impression info to advertisers, is somehow getting it wrong. Uh, doubtful.
So pick your poison, guys.
I’m anti-BSB Blog. Is it any wonder ??
I claim lies and deception as my reason.
With a cast like Todd Hoffman, Bryan Clark, Tim Russo, Russell Hughlock and Jerid “frat pig” Kurtz, how could anyone trust many of the words that the BS Blog publishes.
Comment by Dave Hickman — September 13, 2007 @ 1:03 pm
Tom,
Always a pleasure. One thing you failed to point out is that Russell’s claims were made during the middle of the 2006 cycle…a cycle which started with a bang with the Senate primary and chairs race, and continued with a lot of juice all the way through. However, I suppose that would throw some doubt onto your conclusions.
That said, I don’t have any evidence either way as to Russell’s claims. But I do know that BSB’s statistics swing dramatically based on what’s going on. That said, what’s your traffic like these days Tom?
Comment by Jerid — September 13, 2007 @ 1:25 pm
#2, nice try, no sale. The Alexa graphs have my visitor traffic significantly higher than yours during the period involved, and I’m even ahead in page views. And I was nowhere near seven figures in page views, let alone visits.
But ….. if you want to now claim, based on Blogads, that your traffic is down 85% or so from that time, be my guest.
The poison aisle is still open.
(added later)
#2, meant to add that I answered your baiting question about traffic already in the body of the post, and am therefore not compelled to answer it.
Comment by TBlumer — September 13, 2007 @ 5:32 pm
Jerid,
Never a pleasure.
One thing you failed to point-out is that you are an insufferable idiot with regards to bashing progressive activists, their causes and the candidates they support.
This is why your DLC infested DINOland of a BS Blog is, to say the least, UN-Democratic and exclusionary. Not to mention the fact that you and your BS Blog bashin’ buddies distort the truth so far to extremes that most BS Blog posts and comments lack even a semblance of reality and/or truth.
You cannot be trusted Jerid. Your words are not credible. Now run along to the closest Case Western Reserve University frat party where far too many guzzle beer, smoke dope and play grab-ass until they become damn near mindless.
Comment by Dave Hickman — September 14, 2007 @ 12:00 pm