Hobbyists With no Budget Continue to Dominate Political Bandwidth in NH - Granite Grok

Hobbyists With no Budget Continue to Dominate Political Bandwidth in NH

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One of the most amazing things about our continued dominance in Alexa Rank across New Hampshire is the absence of a payroll. Authors work for free, no budget, no ad managers, or salespeople—just a few folks with some ideas on the internet.

We do not buy any ads anywhere to promote this site. Our automated ad revenue is not huge, and between that and donations, we keep the fires burning. Pay the fees to maintain the site and server and a few bucks to keep the plugins and background stuff up to date.

Few of the “competitors” for your digital affections are in the same boat. Most buy ads or promote their pages online, and most have staff and payroll.

So how are we dominating the political bandwidth?

We own the niche. Few, if any, cover the stories or angles we cover. There is a huge audience unattended, and we are working hard to get them here and keep them – with your help. None of this success is possible without readers who come back and share our content or the folks who send us links, tips, or op-eds.

So, again, thank you. And – we appear to have survived our exit from Facebook. Yes, the page is still there, but we do not update it and have no plans to share on that platform until – if ever – things change. And no, we are not waiting for that to happen. We have moved on.


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In the meantime, more people in New Hampshire (and across the nation) are looking for our take who do not yet know we are here. We appreciate your dedication to us and sharing our news and opinion, but we have more work.

These numbers continue to be strong. We’ve been on top of this list all year. And we’ve been getting picked up by content aggregators around the country more often, sharing your stories about New Hampshire news and politics. But we can do better and intend to try, even without a payroll, or a budget or someone paid to advertise us.

We’re looking to open a few more MicroGroks very soon, so stay tuned for that.

And yes, we’d like to one day make enough money to pay the website bills and have some leftover for writers, but that was never why we did it, and maybe that’s the secret ingredient.

Maybe.

Here are the latest Alex Rank numbers for our list of digital print news/media sites in New Hampshire.

Sorted by US rank unless there is no US data (no data) then by global rank – data captured on 7/18/2021.

Alexa Global Web Ranking
Site Name (Sorted by US Rank) US Rank Global Rank
GraniteGrok 16,396 75703
SeacoastOnline 20,401 107347
Union leader 23,233 94644
Liberty Block 36,549 129011
NHPR 52,488 178094
Concord Monitor 79,743 212649
Lowell Sun 87,957 209070
Keene Sentinel 91,930 330154
The Valley News 100,672 326,727
Fosters Daily Democrat 101,715 310,263
Girard at Large 106,923 834545
NH Business Review (NHBR) 112,458 450186
Manchester Ink Link 124,486 375144
Lawrence Eagle-Tribune 134,468 322685
NH Journal 145,754 667613
Conway/Berlin Daily Sun 187,277 698679
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript no data 804756
Nashua Telegraph no data 819525
Free Keene no data 1130263
Indepth NH no data 1,208,748
Seacoast Current.com no data 1,350,772
Business NH no data 1,444,124

 

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