Christmas came early again this year for the ‘Grok. We have once-again reclaimed the number one spot in Alexa Rank for online digital print media traffic in New Hampshire.
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Still Wrestling with the Union Leader for NH’s #1 Online Print Media Portal
It’s fun to revisit this now and again, mostly because of the alarm it sounds in the hearts and minds of Democrats. How in the world could that (!#/*%$!) site be getting as much online traffic as the Union Leader? This won’t help, but sometimes we get more.
Twitter Trolls, Hackers, and Snowflakes, Oh My!
Last week was exciting. Someone created a Twitter account to point out how pathetic ‘Grok’s Twitter engagement was. We were in jail for a year so it’s not great. Theirs was worse, which I pointed out, but they insisted on claiming that GraniteGrok had no reach so I shared this and ruined their day.
As Old Media Shifts Focus Online GraniteGrok Continues to Dominate the Space
Several of New Hampshire’s ‘Newspapers’ have gone *begging for donations to stay afloat. Some have shifted more content online and abandoned 7-days a week print editions. With an increasing shift to digital, how has GraniteGrok’s dominance held up?
Last night we quietly and peacefully overtook the Union Leader in Domestic Alexa Ranking (again)
Last night we quietly and peacefully overtook the Union Leader in Domestic Alexa Ranking (again) to retake the number one spot as NH’s online traffic leader in digital-print media.
It’s More than A Feeling – Grok Traffic Jumped 540% in 2019
I have mixed results in the prediction game. My Lewandowski sources turned out to be wrong; he’s not running. To incentivize traffic, I said we wanted to beat WMUR’s Alexa rank by Christmas, but after more research, it may take years to get close.
The Grok is Creeping Up on WMUR and About to Pass UL In Global Traffic Rank as Well
In late July, GraniteGrok.com passed the Union leader in National Alexa Rank to become the number one on-line print media presence in New Hampshire. Two weeks later I announced a new goal; pass WMUR’s online traffic by Christmas. So, how’s that working out?
Summer Surge: GraniteGrok Could Overtake UnionLeader.com Before August 1st!
A little over a year ago I set my mind to a task. What do I need to do to make GraniteGrok.com live up to the tagline I convinced Skip to paste at the top of every webpage on our site: “Dominating the Political Bandwidth in New Hampshire?”
GraniteGrok Passes Seacoast Online as Summer Surge Pushes us to #2
Four days ago we reported our Grok July Summer surge from 5th on our list of NH Media Internet traffic leaders to 3rd place. Yesterday we leaped over Seacoast Online into the Number two spot, behind the Union Leader.
Quick update: “Being perfectly Capitalist here, we’re asking for help from our readers…”
Back on March 30th, I put out an “ask” to our readers on three things: sign up for Alexa, subscribe to our YouTube channel, and yes, donations are now working again. I’m not asking about the last (not averse to someone doing so, just not the topic of this post). As to the first, well, … Read more
Being perfectly Capitalist here, we’re asking for help from our readers
Scroll down for newer posts. I’ve been AWOL lately from writing in trying to get some “behind the scenes” stuff done – apologies. I have another bleg (an “ask”) of you, our loyal readers and it is pure Capitalistic, kinda. Well, two of them sorta aren’t and one, voluntarily, is…
Granite Grok Passes the Concord Monitor in Alexa Online Rankings
The last time we formally compared our Alexa Online ranking to other digital footprints in New Hampshire GraniteGrok was sixth on our list. That was last September, right after we launched Grok 3.0. Since then we’ve been caught up in the process of getting all the backend (and some front end) details squared away. I wasn’t really … Read more
Help Us Grow our Alexa Rank
We use Alexa to measure our traffic rankings and to compare them to other sites around New Hampshire. But not everyone who visits us is getting counted. We are not all using the Alexa extension in our browsers. If you’d like to help us improve our Alexa ranking a great way to do that is … Read more
Where We Stand In NH Digital Media Right Now
While Creepy touchy Uncle Joe Biden considers a run at a job where you might get to nominate Supreme Court Justices (maybe he’ll send a letter asking Dianne Feinstein to be his VP) GraniteGrok has been steadily climbing the internet digital-print-media ladder in New Hampshire.
We’re Creeping Up on the Conway Daily Sun…
With August showing so much improvement in traffic it seemed like a good time to update our Alexa rankings and announce some changes. I’ve been including WMUR since the start but it occurs to me that a Television Channel website is not exactly a goal of ours. I’m not saying we couldn’t ever compete just that we can’t even try right now unless we start doing school closings or weather. That’s not happening so I’ve plucked them off our site list.
Who can we add that does compete? No one yet but I’m looking and perhaps you can help.
Ranking Numbers Improve But Position Remains the Same
If I may take a moment of your time for a quick update. In the past month, GraniteGrok’s Alexa numbers have improved. Our National numbers are better, and our global numbers took a healthy leap in the right direction. But we did not advance in our list of statewide internet media portals.
Of the fourteen sites we are tracking only one moved, and it was in backward.
Granite Grok Passes the Keene Sentinel – Time to Go After The Conway Daily Sun
In our ongoing quest to build our reach and ranking as a top-five New Media presence in New Hampshire, I’m proud to announce that Alexa shows us climbing past the Keene Sentinel to the number seven spot in our watchlist.
This is great news because seeing increased traffic in the heat of summer is an excellent indicator of what we can expect come fall and winter.
It Only Took 10 Days to Overtake The Nashua Telegraph
Back on June 18th, I rebooted the battle for dominance among New Hampshire internet ‘media’ footprints. More specifically, our mission to fight our way into the top five.
To get there, or back there, we have a few local newsy-nameplates to vanquish and ten days into the new quest we’ve taken our first “prize.”
As Grok Prepares To Take it to the Next Level It’s Time to See Where We Rank With Alexa
Before we were hacked in April GraniteGrok climbed up the Alexa Rankings (for Online news or media sites in New Hampshire) to do battle with the top 5. The redirect did some damage to that, and we almost dropped out of the top ten.
That was not great, and we’ve written about the redirects that plagued readers, but some good has come out of it. We amped up the fundraising and our new Web site, which Skip lovingly refers to as Grok 3.0, is under construction. The new security is a lot better and we’ve got some very serious plans for this platform that will, yes literally, take us to the next level.
So what level are we on now? I asked Alexa’s ranking where we stood in the New Hampshire Political/News interwebs and here’s what I learned.
Shawn Millerick: kettle, black
You know, I ALMOST forgot about this line:
——– Original Message ——–
Subject: Kuster??
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:39:47 -0500
From: Shawn Millerick <shawn.millerick@gmail.com>
To: skip@granitegrok.com <skip@granitegrok.com>How is it the biggest opportunity to bash a Democrat/Liberal comes along and you guys have stories about snow storms on your site? Kuster dodging taxes is not big enough to cover?? You guys are lame. Keep going after everyone else. I suspect I was the only person who read your site today so you should thank me.
Shawn P Millerick
Now, we make no bones about it – we are a state level blog in one of the Union’s smallest States staffed by a small group of part-timers; we know where we stand in the greater blogosphere. While we do have several award winning bloggers and while our traffic is mild compared to some, we’re ok with our size and are grateful to every reader that comes to the ‘Grok, even if it is just one. But this had me scratching my head – NH Journal puts itself up as THE place to go here in NH for this kind of stuff, and has full timers (or did – I only go over there maybe a couple times a year at best) and with Hynsie’s former blogger cred for link love, I figured that their traffic would give credence to Millerick’s sneering. Instead, we’ve caught another acting like Fergus “The Fringe” Cullen.