Naughty or Nice? How about Naughty But Nice?

by
Steve MacDonald

It’s that time of year, and we’ve taken to the interwebs to consult the digital traffic Santa to see who has been naughty or nice. Or, in our case, naughty and nice?

The left hates us. We’ve got a love-hate relationship with Republicans and Libertarians. We’re committed to the foundation of the nation and the idea that it requires a primarily moral people to survive. A morality founded on the idea of something greater than government and themselves.

Not everyone agrees, and we agree to disagree.

The legacy media dismisses us, but clones failed media models while wondering where their readers have gone.

We have some thoughts about that.

Despite the traditional digital slowdown that comes to opinion, news, and digital print media every Christmas (new and old), we’re still managing to knock it out of the park!

Naughty and nice. We broke into the top 10,000 US websites this month (just barely). That’s not an easy thing to do, especially for a bunch of unpaid hobby bloggers.

I’m not yet convinced we have the base traffic to sustain that, but we’re working on it, always working on it.

Our last trip into this region was from August to November 2019. We made it to 8,286 before creeping back out but near the top 10K domestically. It was crazy pre-primary election season, and we continued to do well until after NH Primary weekend. That’s when the Facebook Factcheckers came for us, and the Zuckerstasi locked us down.

We have since idled our presence on Facebook and built a following away from the Big Tech twosome. It took a while, but I think it is safe to say we’ve fully recovered to where we were before that.

We now need to build on this base and we look forward to your continued input into how we can do that or do it better.

 

Alexa Ranking Results for Digital print media sights, sorted by domestic rank unless there was no data, and then global rank. Sampled 12/24/21 at roughly 7:30 am ET.

 

Alexa Global Web Ranking
Site Name (Sorted by US Rank) US Rank Global Rank
GraniteGrok 9,988 54,570
Liberty Block 17,643 73,864
Union leader 39,293 117,906
SeacoastOnline 50,744 171,589
Concord Monitor 52,288 184,344
NHPR 55,780 217,528
Lawrence Eagle-Tribune 63,056 213,716
Lowell Sun 73,427 234,351
Manchester Ink Link 75,000* 369,835
Keene Sentinel 104,893 316,069
The Valley News 119,287 370,882
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript 147,982 529,590
NHBR 140,943 485,280
Fosters Daily Democrat 151,569 480,651
Nashua Telegraph 170,275 550,208
Conway/Berlin Daily Sun 191,342 426,958
Indepth NH no data 611,879
NH Journal no data 909,220
Free Keene no data 922,792
Seacoast Current no data 1,091,976
NH Bulletin no data 1,188,536
J Bartlett no data 1,326,204
Girard at Large no data 1,937,602

Author

  • Steve MacDonald

    Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, blogger, and a member of the Board of directors of The 603 Alliance. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor of GraniteGrok.com, a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, and a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.

Share to...