I don’t think this is what our former bloggers had in mind when three of them quit the Orange Juice blog on Nov. 15, and tried to destroy our blog on the way out the door. Blognetnews has ranked our blog #1 this week in their latest weekly list of California’s Most Influential Political Blogs. And over the past 12 weeks we have come in at #2 in their rankings, which you may verify at this link.
According to Alexa.com, the premier web traffic ranking service, the Orange Juice blog has had an 85% increase in “reach” over the past three months. “Reach measures the number of users. Reach is typically expressed as the percentage of all Internet users who visit a given site,” according to Alexa.com. Furthermore, the Orange Juice Blog’s rank has vaulted over 84,000 other websites over the past three months.
Our closes competitor in Orange County, Red County, has a website that includes blogs for over a dozen counties and a few national sites too. Yet according to Alexa.com, they merit only 2 page views per visitor, per week, to their site, while the Orange Juice gets an amazing 11 page views per visitor, per week. The Liberal OC, by contrast, gets 1.4 page views per visitor, per week.
As always, we thank our readers and our writers for their contributions to the Orange Juice blog. We have just lived through a truly crazy couple of weeks, but as always the Orange Juice blog will continue to reveal what Orange County’s politicians and assorted partisan hacks don’t want you to know!
*”It’s a good thing to be King!” so said Mel Brooks – and we agree!
This happened right after the election – just as I had predicted it would. There’s no sense in arguing though I guess – since you’re always right Art.
SMS
Sarah,
No human is infallible. However I am glad that our blog has prevailed and is doing well, despite the recent chaos.
Actually, Mel Brooks said: …”It’s good to be the King…”.
It’s too bad all the ugliness has reared it’s ugly head after the elections have come and gone regarding this blog.
Congrats… The OJ continues to be an interesting read, although sometimes it’s a little like jumping into the middle of a cat fight when I link up…
Pot Stirrer,
Sorry about that. Things got a bit weirder than usual a couple of weeks ago. We are on much more solid ground now.
I think most folks like that we are not dealing in party spin here at the Orange Juice. They know where to go for red and blue tripe…
I’m going to assume on the face that OJ gets the most traffic out of all of the other blogs.
But this does not mean it is the most influential. You can’t judge influence by traffic alone.
I think there are three kinds of people who read this blog.
1) Those who come here for the comedy. This is the largest category (and is where I fall).
2) Those who are checking to see what (if anything) Art and his posse are saying about them this week. This is the next largest group.
3) The mentally deranged. This is the smallest group. They think that this blog actually means something. Some of them think that this blog is worth fighting over. This group thinks that everyone in group #1 is deranged and that everyone in group #2 is corrupt.
You add all of these groups together, and you get the most traffic. But it’s hardly relevant.
Oh please…now that you have a ranking you like you’re touting the Blog Net News system again? Your braggadocio is equaled only by your lack of shame.
Oi.
So glad we provide humor to brighten your day while the country is in a major recession.
Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving Holiday.
Signed The Juice team
SH! Don’t wake up Jubal!
Oi,
Please don’t get Larry started on the “Obama Recession” drum beat! The poor president-elect hasn’t even been sworn in, and the left-over’s party of GOP want to tag Obama with all the garbage decisions, deregulations and malfeasance of the outgoing President Bush. We still have all of December and most of January to enjoy the results of the mess GWBush has made.
Signed, the other part of the juice team.
😉
Red.
All I was doing is wishing Oi a safe and Happy Thanksgiving from all of us. That does include you.
“Mission accomplished.” No, that’s not coined by President Bush. We will continue to accomplish “our” Mission which is to inform Juice readers of current events covering a wide spectrum of topics. As Oi stated there are multiple reasons why we have had over one million hits on this site.
The unique quality of the OJ blog is our diversity of though opinion and writing styles.