Conservative 100: Most Popular Conservative Websites, January 2012
Posted on January 18, 2012
Our monthly list of the 100 most popular conservative websites for January, 2012 rated by Alexa 3-month traffic ranks. PLUS: the near-misses.
The CONSERVATIVE 100
The 100 most popular conservative websites on the Internet for January 2012.
CONSERVATIVE 100
Ratings #16, January 18, 2012
DBKP has released its monthly ratings of the Most Popular 100 Conservative sites on the web, the Conservative 100. The ratings are based on Alexa traffic rankings 3-month worldwide average. Ratings taken from January 15-18, 2012.
As can be expected, there has been some movement over the last six months since the last Conservative 100 was published. The Top 10 was absolutely stable. After that, sites movement has been fluid. Of course, changes in the way Google indexed sites fully took effect since our last rating in June 2011.
There are 11 new sites in the Top 100. New websites making the list: Gateway Pundit moved to its own URL (30); Legal Insurrection is back after moving to its URL (52); PJTV makes its debut at #56. Verum Serum is new at 76; Michael Yon (78); Mitt Romney Central (83) and Angry White Dude cracks the top 100 at #87, followed by Small Dead Animals at 88. Rounding out the newcomers this edition are Gates of Vienna (91); Right Nation (97) and American Power Blog (100).
In the interest of getting the list published, this post was a “team effort.” We’ll blame any mistakes on a lack of coordination. Or lack of communication. Or…
Our next list is planned to be another project by more than one individual. It’s planned to come out the first week of February. But we all know about the plans of mice and men…
NOTE: We added a lot of new sites to the “Near Miss” list. Check the end of this post for a list of sites which we haven’t “put in their proper place yet.” Give us 48 hours and check back. All the work should be completed.
The Conservative 100 list contains sites of interest to conservatives or with a conservative point of view.
NOTE: ONE NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE SINCE JANUARY 2011: The libertarian sites (Lew Rockwell, Daily Paul, Reason, Ron Paul Forums, Freedom’s Phoenix, etc.) were moved to a listing of their own. The Libertarian lists can be accessed here at the end of this post.
As always, if we missed anyone, drop us a line in the comments with your site URL; we’ll include in the next Conservative 100 ratings for June.
DBKP POLITICALLY POPULAR
CONSERVATIVE 100 – #16 – JANUARY
January 18,, 2012
NEAR MISSES
NEAR MISSES
| Say Uncle | 184146 |
| Judicial Watch | 186355 |
| Jill Stanek | 187695 |
| Maggie’s Farm | 187699 |
| Red County | 188065 |
| Black Five | 189652 |
| PoliPundit | 199613 |
| All-American Blogger | 204129 |
| Yid With Lid | 208505 |
| Blogger News Network | 223140 |
| Creeping Sharia | 233215 |
| Protein Wisdom | 240239 |
| Zombie Time | 246402 |
| NewsReal Blog | 247639 |
| Neo-Neocon | 248310 |
| The Political Commentator | 250410 |
| Riehl World View | 257539 |
| Bob McCarty Writes | 258928 |
| Just One Minute | 264382 |
| NO QUARTER | 283480 |
| Strata-Sphere | 294331 |
| IowaHawk | 294702 |
MISSED SITES: Next time!
* Ann Barnhardt
* IowaDawg
* Ricochet
* Michelle’s Mirror
* Maggie’s Notebook
NOTES:
* This edition of the Conservative 100 is somewhat of a team effort. We’ll be updating it over the next 48 hours to make sure everything is where it’s supposed to be.
* We’ve gotten several inquiries as to how some sites are ranked higher than others: for instance, how does Free Republic, a site with 300,000 registered users, rank higher than Rush Limbaugh, who has a show with 10 million regular listeners? While we only compile the Alexa rankings, here’s one explanation: a site with a large amount of loyal users will many times have those users check the site multiple times per day; while media personalities–Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingram, Mark Levin–may have millions of listeners/viewers, only a percentage of those may end up visiting that person’s website.
* As previously stated, this is a list of traffic rankings. Different people obviously have different tastes and priorities in what makes a conservative site special to that person: that’s what makes the Internet go round. A person who loves Site A may not have any desire to visit Site B; and, visa versa.
SITE-SPECIFIC NOTES – January 2012
* – As our note from last ratings pointed out, Legal Insurrection moved from Blogger to it’s own .com address. Whenever such a move takes place, it usually takes 2-3 months for a site to recover its traffic. And so, Legal Insurrection has recovered.
# Confederate Yankee, Ace of Spades HQ, and Jawa Report, as well as other mu.nu blogs all combine for the same rating. Alexa treats these sites as one in its traffic rankings. Because these are all popular conservative sites, we’ll leave it like this with the note until Alexa distinguishes between them.
# -The same holds true for First Things, The Anchoress, Spengler, Secondhand Smoke, Evangel and Postmodern Conservative are all at First Things. All the above sites register an aggregate total like the mu.nu sites. Until Alexa distinguishes between the blogs, they’ll be ranked in the aggregate with this note.
* Gateway Pundit has moved his site from Right Network to its own .com URL.
# Michael Savage is part of World Net Daily and their traffic combine to form one total.
# Instapundit is part of the Pajamas Media site and both combine for the one total.
# Don Surber is part of the Charleston Daily Mail site and both combine for the one total.
# Big Hollywood is part of the Breitbart.com site and both combine for the one total.
# Several sites have changed URLs including MRC TV (formerly Eye Blast TV) and Doubleplus Undead.
Remember: If we missed your site, let us know. Either with a note in the comments or an email to mondoreb@gmail.com. Put TOP 100 in the subject line.
ALSO at DBKP:
Conservative 100: Most Popular Conservative Websites, June 2011
Libertarian Top 50 Sites: June-July 2011
Conservative 100: Most Popular Conservative Websites, May 2011
Conservative 100: Most Popular Conservative Websites, April 2011
Alternate News-Information 100 Ratings, April 19, 2011
Conservative 100: Most Popular Conservative Websites, March 2011
* Libertarian Top 40 Sites: March 2011
* Conservative 100: Most Popular Conservative Websites, February 2011
* Alternate News-Information 80 Ratings, February 20, 2011
* Conservative 100: Most Popular Conservative Websites, January 2011
* Conservative 100: Most Popular Conservative Websites, November 2010.
* Conservative 100: Most Popular Conservative Websites, October 2010
* Conservative 100: Most Popular Conservative Websites, September 2010
* Conservative 100: Most Popular Conservative Websites, August 2010
* The Conservative 100: Most Popular Conservative Websites, July 2010
* Most Popular Websites: Conservative 100, March 7, 2010
* The Conservative 100: Most Popular Conservative Sites, Feb 14 2010
* DBKP Politically Popular: Top 100 Conservative Websites-Jan 31 2010
* Progressive Liberal 100: Top 100 Progressive Liberal Websites
* Conservative Blogs 100, Feb 21 2010
* Alternate News-Information 60, Feb 28, 2010
* Conservative Blogs 100: September 2010
compiled by Mondo Frazier
images: DBKP file
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[...] Number 26! But we had to share with those Morons at Ace of Spades HQ and Confederate [...]
What? No Ricochet.com?
Fox News conservative???????? Squishy, yes. Conservative, no.
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You know what’s great about this list? The high number of independent sites that sprang from the crash-and-burn years ago of LGF. Thanks, Chuck!
Alexa 368,411. Should be a “near miss” inclusion?
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#95
Tea Party Brief should be in top 100 at around #95 according to Alexa