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I am beginning to doubt the reliability of this rating system when the Busplunge, which chronicles the rants and raves of an old crank, ranks higher on Missouri's Most Influential Political blogs than several serious political blogs.
I first noticed this when I did a post on 10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage Is Wrong and our influence rating jumped from #11 to #2.
About a week and a half later, a blog post from the Busplunge got picked up by Andrew Sullivan's The Daily Dish, one of the nation's leading political blogs. Busplunge received over 2500 page visits from that link on Sullivan's blog. Our political influence rating that week dropped.
I would have thought that a post picked up by a national blog and that garnered that many hits in two days would have been ranked more influential than a sarcastic post on gay marriage.
So, to test my theory, this past week the Bus posted almost a post a day that had "homosexual" or "gay" as a subject matter. Here's an example, here's another one, and this one's three.
The ratings for this week just came in: Busplunge jumped 7 spaces and is rated as the #7 Most Influential Political Blog In Missouri.
Go figure.
Your story reminds me of a diddy I read in a book called the "Third Chimpanzee". The author Jared Diamond went on to win a Pulitzer for a book titled "Guns Germs and Steel" which was based off of one chapter of the previously mentioned book.
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Female readership rapidly declined while Male readership increased dramatically.....
I have a few theories on your ranking situation they involve
1. Regional vs. National attitudes - Are they Different?
2. Controversy - Always increases traffic
3. Perhaps you're recording an upswing in straight bloggers
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LOL
Shit. Now I have to change my color scheme.
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