Posted on 01/27/2012 6:47:11 PM PST by Sybeck1
There were some who everybody ganged up on back then. Ash comes to mind. LOL!
He's dating Drudge... Who's dating Coulter... Who's dating Bill Maher.
And they're all born-again Mormons.
No. But Drudge is a flaming liberal.
OH, THUHank You.
The link to Free Republic is on his page and he never took it off, dumbass.
Gullible fool.
When I finally figured out what this was about....
I literally LOL!
And still am!
It’s an oversimplification to use vague terms like “web page hits” (and I’m certainly guilty of that).
The business of measuring website activity and effectiveness has become very sophisticated, as you might find by browsing around on sites like www.quantcast.com, www.alexa.com, and others.
It is the metrics provided by services like these that Drudge uses to market his website’s services to advertisers.
The question is whether Drudge’s auto-refresh impacts the statistics provided by these services. From what I read here:
http://www.quantcast.com/learning-center/guides/how-to-read-our-reports
And here:
http://www.quantcast.com/learning-center/glossary
“Pageview – An instance of a page being loaded by browser.”
“Page visits – The total number of times a single web browser views a page.”
“Traffic - Quantcast can account for the following traffic statistics: People, Visits and Page-Views.”
So, yes, according to this, the auto-refresh will indeed pump up the statistics offered by Quantcast.
It’s no surprise that Drudge uses the website ranking provided by Quantcast (and others) on its marketing page:
http://www.intermarkets.net/advertisers/portfolio/news/drudgeReportAdvertising.html
So, even though implementing the auto-refresh is simple from the HTML standpoint, the overall picture is far more complex.
It this tactic “sneaky”? Yes, in my opinion. Is it unethical? Quite likely.
Yeah. FR is not the place it used to be.
Ditto. I think both Drudge and Coulter have lost it in their zeal for McRomney.
Nah. Same mix of brilliance and lame as now.
The brilliance was more brilliant...the lame was about the same. :)
I think that's right.
The whole thing breaks by heart because I think Rush was wrong about the his idea that conservatism is winning. If Romney is nominated then the sum of his and Obama's votes indicate the strength of liberalism in America today.
Some, certainly. Others not so much.
Maybe I don't visit the right sites, but Drudge's is the ONLY one where I have observed an automatic refresh of the entire page. If asked, Drudge would probably point out that because the content of the site is updated frequently, the refresh ensures that the site visitor sees the latest version.
Have newspapers ever overstated their circulation figures to entice advertisers? Of course they have. Have broadcasters ever packed their best offerings into "sweeps weeks"? Absolutely.
I suppose it's really not sneaky if everyone does stuff like that. Maybe "slimy" is a better term!
Same here. They all jumped on Perry AND Newt for their stance on immigration. Perry is everyone's hero now that he dropped out and supported Newt - yet no one would support PErry when he first entered the race leading the pack. I find it hard to whole heartedly support Newt now because of the unfairness shown to Perry on this site. I knew that bashing and eliminating Perry would lead to romney. And sure enough.... I wish Perry would unsuspend and take his millions and jump back in. That's how I feel and I don't care how unpopular it may be.
I also think is was unfair how Perry's stance on immigration was misinterpreted.
The "heartless" people are going to love having Romney...then four more years of Obama!
We get what we deserve.
Day 4
Instead of doing that, you should go to the comments sections of the articles he posts and enter disparaging remarks, er, I mean voice your opinions about Drudge there.
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