Thanks to you loyal readers, Independent Political Report has achieved over 500,000 hits in about 8 months. If you have any suggestions for how to improve the site, I would love to hear them. Please take this opportunity to spread word about IPR to your friends through word of mouth, facebook, myspace, or whichever forums you browse. The more traffic we have, the more respect third parties will get!
39 responses so far ↓
1 Trent Hill // Jan 28, 2009 at 2:02 am
Also, we have almost 1.5 million page views. So not only are you guys visiting often, but you take time to look around! I appreciate it!
2 Prospective Advertiser // Jan 28, 2009 at 2:26 am
I would like to see you guys have some sort of business model for making this site work. You don’t charge for subscriptions or memberships or commenting, which is cool. You don’t pay for articles, which limits who can afford to provide them. And you don’t sell advertising space.
So, it’s cool and the gang that you have lots of hits and page views and maybe three or four dozen unique IP addresses for the people who visit (do you track this stat?) but you don’t have a character of the demographics of your audience, and you don’t have a business model for making money. Can this go on?
3 Trent Hill // Jan 28, 2009 at 2:35 am
Prospective,
This site was started simply as a news site, essentially for fun. With that said–we are going to utilize it to make money. Im not really at liberty to say how–but rest assured that my boss did not buy this site because he thought it was cool and he likes to collect urls,lol.
With all of that said, this site isnt worth much in traditional advertising revenue–especially in the election off-season.
4 Prospective Advertiser // Jan 28, 2009 at 4:38 am
Trent, really, get a grip. The site contains no ads. Therefore, it is worth nothing in traditional advertising revenue. lol
You actually have no idea how much the site would generate in ad revenue if you won’t sell ads. I find this approach bizarre.
I think it would be great if your boss made a ton of money with the site. A rising tide lifts all boats.
5 Libertarian Joseph // Jan 28, 2009 at 7:09 am
Trent, you are the one that bought this site from GE? hm
6 Ross Levin // Jan 28, 2009 at 11:48 am
Prospective Advertiser – it seems like Trent and his boss are thinking about that. It would also be a stupid idea to just throw up ads without thinking about it, because you might not be making as much money as possible.
Trent – please just don’t compromise quality at all for the sake of making a profit.
7 paulie cannoli // Jan 28, 2009 at 11:55 am
Trent,
See comments at
http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2008/09/open-thread-what-new-features-and-improvements-do-readers-want-at-ipr/
8 paulie cannoli // Jan 28, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Blogroll still needs to be fixed – it’s on both sides of the page and the categories are messed up.
contact.ipr@gmail.com was on the front page for a minute, then disappeared.
9 paulie cannoli // Jan 28, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Authors names on articles. I know you are working on that. Also, archives of articles and bios for each author.
Featuresto add – see NFV sidebar (scroll down right hand side to see) for demo:
http://pauliecannoli.wordpress.com/
Link to archives from each month
Top Clicks
Top Posts
Category list….may not be feasible here, we have over 1500….maybe organize them into an expandable folder view somehow?
Link to last few articles from each author in the sidebar (separate category)
10 paulie cannoli // Jan 28, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Candidates websites sidebar category?
11 paulie cannoli // Jan 28, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Sites to consider for the blogroll.
This is a cut and paste from an old email; we’ve added a few of these already….
more links in the blogroll
The whole Green Party Watch blogroll
Also:
http://www.freeliberal.com/blog/
http://www.fairvote.org/blog
http://www.reason.com/blog/
http://www.libertyforall.net/
http://freehoosiers.ning.com/
http://kclibertarian.blogspot.com/
http://lpinscr.blogspot.com/
http://www.democracynow.org/
http://www.indytruth.org/
http://www.unitedliberty.org/
http://campaignforliberty.com/
http://www.downsizedc.org/
http://freemanchronicles.wordpress.com/
http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/
http://georgedonnelly.com/
http://lncregion7.blogspot.com/
http://libertymaven.com/
http://libertyforamerica.com/
http://www.libhotties.com/
http://lpcolorado.blogs.com/lpcolorado/
http://colliething.com/
http://outrightlibertarians.blogspot.com/
http://hnn.us/blogs/4.html
http://www.jasonpye.com/blog/
http://cspanjunkie.org/
http://www.smallgov.org/
http://lpuk.blogspot.com/
http://www.amconmag.com/
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/
http://www.dailypaul.com/
http://www.theamericanview.com/
http://freestudents.blogspot.com/
http://delusive.addpdg.org/
http://muddythoughts.blogspot.com/
http://www.anthonygregory.com/
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Front-Page.htm
http://jameslandrith.com/
http://votegatties.org/
http://libertarianpeacenik.blogspot.com/
http://ladyliberty.wordpress.com/
http://www.rationalreview.com/
http://www.rockthedebates.org/
http://www.nolanchart.com/index.php
http://serfcity.wordpress.com/
http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/
http://kevincolby.com/
http://libertarianintelligence.com/
http://blackindependentvoter.blogspot.com/
http://grassrootsindependent.blogspot.com/
http://www.anti-incumbents.com/
http://www.voidnow.org/
http://vote.org/
http://swmolibertarianparty.blogspot.com/
http://www.thelibertypapers.org/
http://carolmoorereport.blogspot.com/
http://leftlibertarian.org/
http://www.sarwark.org/writings/blog.html
http://nallforgovernor.blogspot.com/
http://www.holisticpolitics.org/
http://www.faithfamilyfreedoms.blogspot.com/
http://www.ni4d.us/
http://serenadeingreen.blogspot.com/
http://opednews.com/
http://howtheneoconsstolefreedom.blogspot.com/
http://freelibertarian.blogspot.com/
http://rationalreview.com/
12 paulie cannoli // Jan 28, 2009 at 12:27 pm
New authors.
Most especially Greens and leftists.
2nd priority CPers.
3rd priority non-radical LPers.
And finally, anyone and everyone in the altpolitics universe who is willing – I will be scaling down my posting a lot as I get over being sick and get back to paying work more.
13 Paleo Pat // Jan 28, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Good job! I still read this Blog. It’s on my RSS feeds.
Congrads.
-Pat
14 HS // Jan 28, 2009 at 1:31 pm
One suggestion for the blog roll is http://www.whigblog.com. The writers are very well-informed, professional and increasingly active in Texas third party politics.
15 paulie cannoli // Jan 28, 2009 at 1:39 pm
HS,
Well-informed, professional? The first thing I see is a call for having nuked Mecca.
I would advise against linking to genocidal hate blogs.
Similarly, please don’t link to Stormfront, either.
16 paulie cannoli // Jan 28, 2009 at 1:46 pm
On the other side, of current links:
Miller Politics is a dead link.
disinter may need to be delinked for the same reason I would advise against linking to the “nuke Mecca” people…
See my comments in the comment section of
http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2009/01/israeli-high-court-restores-ballot-access-to-two-arab-parties/
Particularly comments 2 and 3
17 Libertarian Joseph // Jan 28, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Paulie? You only want leftwing writers? What a socialist you are
18 HS // Jan 28, 2009 at 2:09 pm
The first thing I see when clicking on the link is a comment about the stimulus issue. So yes, I do believe that overall, the writers of Whigblog are well-informed. I don’t always agree with everything I read, but their blog is constantly updated, funny at times and insightful.
In any event, it was just a suggestion.
19 Trent Hill // Jan 28, 2009 at 2:10 pm
“Trent, really, get a grip. The site contains no ads. Therefore, it is worth nothing in traditional advertising revenue. lol”
I meant that our traffic does not make me think that advertising revenue would be worth much. We have non-traditional uses for the website that will make us money, rest assured. My boss would not have bought it if it werent going to make money–$60 in monthly ads is nothing comparitively. Still, we may set up a basic advertising scheme.
20 Trent Hill // Jan 28, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Paulie,
Most of the sites you suggested are lesser libertarian party blogs–or not third-party oriented at all. I’ll wade through ourt blogroll at some point soon,though.
21 paulie cannoli // Jan 28, 2009 at 2:15 pm
The first thing I see when clicking on the link is a comment about the stimulus issue. So yes, I do believe that overall, the writers of Whigblog are well-informed. I don’t always agree with everything I read, but their blog is constantly updated, funny at times and insightful.
http://whigblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-administration-tests-new-approach.html
“Then again, if we had nuked Mecca seven years ago, we wouldn’t have to go around kissing the Muslim world’s ass like that. ”
I recommend staying far, far, far away from sites that spout that kind of genocidal hate garbage.
22 Trent Hill // Jan 28, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Paulie,
We dont link or not link sites because of their views. We link the Socialist Party, and we’d link the White Nationalist Party if they actually were a party that ran candidates and got votes.
23 paulie cannoli // Jan 28, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Up to you.
I only make suggestions.
24 paulie cannoli // Jan 28, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Does the whig party run candidates and get votes? How many candidates, how many votes?
25 Jeremy Young // Jan 28, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Congratulations!!! Keep up the good work.
26 Trent Hill // Jan 28, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Paulie,
In my opinion, they’re about as big as the Boston Tea Party–which is why they’re on the “Party websites” blogroll. But we arent going to link them more than that until they’ve run candidates and such.
27 Trent Hill // Jan 28, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Thanks Jeremy!
Please spread the word!
28 paulie cannoli // Jan 28, 2009 at 2:25 pm
26:
I agree.
29 Susan Hogarth // Jan 28, 2009 at 4:02 pm
@11: thanks for the suggestion of a link to colliething.org, but that’s my personal blog and not really topical for a list of political blogs (MAYBE for a list of ‘personal blogs of Libertarians’). True, I talk about lib and LP stuff there, but I doubt anyone considers my new obsession with knitting to be of any political importance, even in the insular libertarian world
30 Rachel H // Jan 28, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Hey, Trent, Paulie & anyone else that I can’t hink of –
CONGRATULATIONS! You all are doing a great job.
Thank you.
31 paulie cannoli // Jan 28, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Thank you for reading!
32 paulie cannoli // Jan 28, 2009 at 4:31 pm
….And commenting….
33 paulie cannoli // Jan 28, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Also thanks to Jason Seagraves and Austin Cassidy for creating and managing IPR for its first several months, and to Trent for taking it on after that.
34 Jeremy Young // Jan 28, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Colliething should be in the “reader blogs” section, along with mine, shouldn’t it? Susan probably reads this site more often than I do.
35 Jeremy Young // Jan 28, 2009 at 5:01 pm
That is to say, mine’s already there (thanks guys!), so why shouldn’t Susan’s be there too?
36 paulie cannoli // Jan 28, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Well, because she doesn’t want it there, would I guess be one reason. I’m not for linking to anyone who asks not to be linked.
37 Jeremy Young // Jan 28, 2009 at 5:23 pm
I didn’t take it that way. She said: “that’s my personal blog and not really topical for a list of political blogs (MAYBE for a list of ‘personal blogs of Libertarians’).” I took the maybe as, well, a maybe.
38 paulie cannoli // Jan 28, 2009 at 9:04 pm
Closing in ….
TPW since December 13, 2007
IPR since May 20, 2008
Looks like we should be passing them in page views in a week or two….despite a six months head start.
39 paulie cannoli // Jan 28, 2009 at 9:05 pm
TPW…”Sorry”
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