World Wide Web Visitors

I was looking at traffic for the site and our ClustRmaps indicator blew me away. It’s rather humbling to see so many people around the world visiting little old Papamoka to see what our writers have to say. This is a map of visitors since October of 2008.

I put this blog eye candy in my sidebar about two years ago and I love it. It doesn’t capture all of the visitors and where they are from but it does a good job finding many of them. ClustRmaps keeps track of the visitors to the site for a one year period. I was in mourning when they had to archive my previous years traffic. All of my little red dots around the world were filed away in some cold dark computer. But, as you can see, their brothers and sisters came back home to Papamoka.

Thank you all for visiting.

Papamoka

Political Blogging Tools

I’m not an expert on how people find your political blog but I am someone that is very curious as to how people find our blog, Papamoka Straight Talk. Like many people that poor their heart and soul into well written pieces, I want to know how people find that well written piece. I’ve tried Technorati and other tools for bloggers to see where all of our works are showing up and with no success lately but I finally found one that actually works. I put up thier service in our sidebar a couple of days ago. It's at the bottom of the side bar for now but I'm thinking I should raise it up a few notches.

For a couple of years I have watched as our Technorati ranking rose to 70 where this site was in the top 100,000 in the world and sank to where it is now at 38 links and wondered how they lost all the links that have actually linked in to Papamoka Straight Talk? How is it that this site is picked up or linked too by Reuters, Chicago Sun, The Wall Street Journal, The Moderate Voice, Crooks and Liars, Gun Toting Liberal, The Left Coaster, Yahoo News, Featured Posts on Memeorandom, Real Clear Politics, Slate Magazine and the list goes on forever but we only have 38 links on Technorati? Today alone the Huffington post linked in? Shocked the hell out of me but it is what it is. Did Technorati change the metrics as to who is a link and who is not because they never told me? I apologize in advance if your link to this site does not show up on Technorati but I do my best to give credit to those that link in. I now find myself using Google Search to find links that has proven more reliable to find your links to this site over Technorati.

Anywho, I love to find links to Papamoka and the contributors that write here and give those sites linking in credit. A lesson I learned over at Gun Toting Liberal. Unlike many other bloggers, we credit back to sites that have linked in on any of our posts. Call me an idiot but I like to thank people for appreciating our work and give them credit for doing so. It would be rude to not do so in my opinion but that is just me. If I have missed your link in from your site then please let me know ASAP in the comment section or by email!

I can’t speak for the folks over at Technorati as to why they don’t count all of the links to this site but I can tell you that I found a live link count that works for this site. I’ve tested it and it works without fail. It is called E-Referrer and it lists all sites that link in to your blog from anywhere. It goes one better by keeping a tally of who is linking in over the last 100 plus days. I put it up in my sidebar and I’m very happy with the product they provide for not so affluent bloggers like me.

I have not been paid by E-Referrer for this post so all of you folks thinking I’m in the tank for them, you are wrong. I don’t do paid posts here at Papamoka. You can however feel free to visit the sponsors and show your thanks for this hat tip for your personal blog. They are the ones that keep this site up. Thank you Google for that!!!

E-Referrer is a great product for your blog and if you would like to know where your readers are coming from then I recommend them highly. My E-Referrer has only been up for a day or two and I’m surprised more than you know who is coming to this site and from where. You can check it out in the side bar or clicking on thier logo above and sign up for the free service for your blog from there. I hope it helps you understand where your readers are coming from and give you some aspect as to how important it is to be political and speak up loud and clear.

Papamoka

McCain Obama Scuffle

One of the things always common in past elections was the ability to launch out with full attacks on your political opponent. George Bush and Karl Rove toasted John McCain’s ass in the 2000 election so bad that it left John McCain with a bad taste in his mouth. So bad a taste that he morphed into George Bush to be his political parties candidate???

It’s ironic that John McCain who was the champion of change back then is now the stay the course candidate for the Republican Party. Is it me or has the Straight Talk Express run off the road and slammed into the out house? There isn’t enough toilet paper to clean up this mess that McCain has re-invented himself into. One thing is certain is that the Maverick is apologizing for the simple fact that someone used the Christian middle name of Barack Hussein Obama over and over before John McCaine took the stage.

This isn’t a shameless fact or reasonable excuse to apologize for giving a man’s Christian middle name or is it? Politics is all about the bait and switch and with the internet being a non stop twenty four hour feed of news then this was a classic we have this great car for you hear and we have this nice self destructing Ford Pinto for you in your mental price range. The end result of the talking points is to be afraid of a man Christened with an Arab middle name. If that isn’t more Bush II politics I don’t know what is?

Throw that mud up against the wall and the low retention level voters buy it. “I saw it on the Internet that Obama is an Arab Muslim” so it must be true. For the record, emails do not count as the internet and sites like this one that actually point out facts. Next line of thought after the middle name drop is that Arab’s attacked America and we are at war with fundamentalist Muslims who are also Arabs. Follow the trail of domino’s and that is the Republican war machine come the general election. Telling you who to be afraid of and why you should vote for keeping America closed up with our own version of the Great Wall of China.

One of the talk radio stations I listen to for Imus in the Morning every single day along with Eagan and Braude at lunch time also has Jay Severin on for the drive home that is a political mind provoking talk radio station. 96.9 FM WTKK in Boston has a good mix of opinion in a very Liberal state but does not connect well with Liberal opinions for the most part. With the loss of Air America in the local Boston market there is no other broadcast available for good talk radio. That being said they have an excellent orator in Jay Severin who is also a national political radio talking point go to guy that has some clear points from a Conservative but Independent side of the aisle political theology. You don’t know how many times I screamed at him for being an idiot on the drive home and in the same respect agreed with his points on other issues. That is what politics is all about, getting you moved enough or angry enough to demand change and Jay points that out daily.

Jay backed Mitt Romney like I backed Joe Biden. They both dropped out and broke our hearts in doing so. All of our heart went into promoting our individual candidate. They both busted us but the future is bright. America has a better future ahead of us if we all continue the debate of all the issues that matter to us as Americans.

Tomorrow he will either enlighten me or be the cause for an accident on interstate 190 South. Jay Severin is a political guru that sees the mistakes of many of the candidates on both sides and his dislike of Juan McCain as he coined the phrase works for me right now and that is what I like to hear. I’m a blogger, I point the obvious out and this is one pissed off Republican sympathizer against McCain. That I can agree with him on.

You can check Jay Severin latest adventure into blogging here.

You owe me one Jay! Best wishes for you in the Blogosphere.

Papamoka

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