Clearly Slugger’s readership is widening. I recently came across Right Wing News’ top 100 political websites, which the owner, John Hawkins, compiled using the Alexa index. It roughly measures readership numbers. Whilst Slugger is not included, we have calculated that if it had been we would have ranked at number 60.
The Truth Laid Bear Ecosystem has been ranking blogs for the last year or more. Here the chief criterion is how many blogs link to yours. In this case, we don’t do quite so well. In fact we come in at 665 under the definition of Slithering Reptiles. That’s one below Flappy Birds and one above Crunchy Crustaceans.
Thanks by the way to the rather stylish Australian blog Bitchin’ Monaro for including us in her blogroll.
Mick is founding editor of Slugger. He has written papers on the impacts of the Internet on politics and the wider media and is a regular guest and speaking events across Ireland, the UK and Europe. Twitter: @MickFealty
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