In just 18 months, SD Rostra has steadily grown in popularity and readership. We posted an all-time monthly high of over 11,000 unique visitors during October 2010, in the run-up to the 2010 elections. We thank our readers for their loyalty, and for passing along our name and links to your friends and associates.
Our site has a “meter’ that allows us to count the number of people who visit and read our content, and there are wide variations and ebbs and flows. Traffic dropped for a few months after the election, but zoomed to new Daily highs last week, driven in part by Vince Vasquez’s story on the proposed ‘Ronald Reagan Bridge’ story, and your humble servant’s study about the 39th senate district soon becoming competitive for Republicans again.
SD Rostra thanks our regular posters, and readers . Your joint teamwork is responsible for the success we have achieved to date.
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Jim Sills is a San Diego political consultant. If you have questions about your future in San Diego and California elections, you can contact Jim at this e-mail address: YourElectionVictory@Hotmail.com
He has aided the campaigns of Rep. Darrell Issa, Assemblywoman Shirley Horton, Senators Joel Anderson and Tony Strickland, Representatives Devin Nunes and J.D. Hayworth, County Assessor & Recorder Greg Smith, among many others in California and beyond.
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They say if you keep at and post regularly, the numbers will follow. Glad to have you around to keep it interesting. BTW the OBRag– the liberal pinko contrarian site where I post– has been breaking 11,000+ unique visitors every week lately (January, 2011)
Thanks, Doug, for the encouragement, as well as the sense of humor! Numbers continue to increase, and it appears we will easily exceed the 11,000 UVs in February, if things continue as they have the first week of the month.
Readers, if you are interesting in reading the liberal pinko contrarian OB Rag (Doug’s words, for the record), here is a link. They keep it interesting as well!…
http://www.obrag.org/
Yeah, nice. I get 150,000 uniques a month. See you again when you hit, what 20K?
Great for you Dan. Very statesman-like of you, as well. Of course, very few websites get 150,000 unique visitors a month without a paid marketing effort. Happy for you that you can do that. We have no such effort, as we cater to a smaller universe of local political followers, by admission. Best wishes to you with your continued success.
Dan has quite the whimsical sense of humor too. His site
currently refers to Darrell Issa as “Darryl” Issa, and to
Jim Sills as Jim Sillis…. What a card ! 😉
In fairness, his site did credit SD Rostra for breaking the
story on Martin Garrick moving towards a state senate
run. No link to our story, but he credited SD Rostra.
Weisman is the only one in competition, apparently.
A review of his webpage shows that although it has a good number of entries in the month of February (just ended), it has generated only about 6 or 8 reader comments in the entire month.
So, a blog like Rostra, which apparently has about one-fifteenth the unique visitors of Mr. Weisman’s blog, generates hundreds more comments in a month? Not very likely.
If Weisman is accurate with his 150k unique visitors in a month, it shows that there is a big difference between those quickly visiting a website and then immediately leaving because advertising and/or marketing links took them there, and a site with a fewer number of visitors but that know the site, go there on purpose, stick around to read, and sometimes comment.
There is a BIG difference between quick hits and length of visit. It is not always about quantity, if the readers ended up on a site with no intention of staying or coming back.
Well, at least I now know the “go to” website for watching water overflow the dam at Lake Hodges. Such a joy!
Say, doesn’t Rancho Santa Fe have at least one stoplight Dan could post up — riveting videos of the light changing from red to green — and then later from green, to yellow, to red?
= RIM SHOT =
Shouts of “Hey Yo” from Ed McMahon. 🙂