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Odd Conservative Website Ranking Drop Right Before Elections
Odd Conservative Website Ranking Drop Right Before Electionshttp://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,151332.0.html
by AbaraXas at the Briefing Room
"SNIP.....................
Notice something unusual about the website rankings for most popular Conservative websites at a time when they should be going up?
*note on the graphs. Higher numbers = lower ratings. 1 would be the highest rating. This is why the higher numbers are at the bottom. The higher the number means the site is trending further and further down in ratings. Ranking data from Alexa.com
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...you get the point.... and all at a time that ratings should be ticking up, in the months before an election. We have been watching web rankings closely to see the trend of our own site for the past few years and noticed the drastic drop in rankings almost over night. In comparing to the other major conservative political websites, they all experienced the same drop at the exact same time, well out of pattern.
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* go to the website to see. They also show democratic sites further down the comments section. Dems ratings went up. As one would assume during a political season.
My theory? The GOP sites have paid GOP bloggers who get moved to the important GOP Senate races in the last 6 weeks of the election. No other explanation makes sense. Conclusion: the GOP websites are mostly paid astroturf in non election season.
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