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paulitics
10-15-2007, 02:09 PM
according to this article, Ron Paul is nowhere to be found.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071015/pl_nm/usa_politics_internet_dc_1;_ylt=Am4o0DItoVL9lizkOi KmQyb5R9AF

uncle saddam
10-15-2007, 02:10 PM
Am I in an alternate dimension, or is the article?

I'm confused...

murrayrothbard
10-15-2007, 02:11 PM
according to this article, Ron Paul is nowhere to be found.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071015/pl_nm/usa_politics_internet_dc_1;_ylt=Am4o0DItoVL9lizkOi KmQyb5R9AF

LOL, what a joke :rolleyes:

winston84
10-15-2007, 02:13 PM
Complete BS, recommend rating the article down if you have a Yahoo account.

ItsTime
10-15-2007, 02:13 PM
wtf?

FreedomLover
10-15-2007, 02:14 PM
The more visitors the official site has, the more the campaign has to spend on hosting and upgrades.

There are plenty of other ron paul sites on the web.

xerxesdarius
10-15-2007, 02:14 PM
Some great reporting there...

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=ronpaul2008.com

rpfreedom08
10-15-2007, 02:14 PM
do you guys know what the number was for RP?

kylejack
10-15-2007, 02:14 PM
jeremy.pelofsky@reuters.com

Lord Xar
10-15-2007, 02:15 PM
this guy has a linkedin account. If you have a paid membership you can contact him and note his incorrect writeup... give him figures.

davidhperry
10-15-2007, 02:16 PM
jeremy.pelofsky@reuters.com

Please, please be nice! :)

Lord Xar
10-15-2007, 02:20 PM
what is the actual numbers between them all?? How could this guy get them soo wrong???? Hillary shill?

kylejack
10-15-2007, 02:21 PM
He's citing Nielsen...can anyone find the Nielsen study?

kylejack
10-15-2007, 02:22 PM
Found it! They have Ron Paul lower than Fred and Mitt.

Site Unique Visitors Web Page Views
(000) (000)
HillaryClinton.com 759 3,283
BarackObama.com 749 9,910
JohnEdwards.com 448 1,955
Fred08.com 410 1,437
MittRomney.com 291 1,457
RonPaul2008.com 208 611
ChrisDodd.com** 177 203
JoinRudy2008.com 151 3,697
MikeHuckabee.com** 123 461
RichardsonForPresident.com** 103 1,190
JohnMcCain.com** 58 193
Dennis4president.com** 52 1,715

Source: Nielsen//NetRatings
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-15-2007/0004682036&EDATE=

kylejack
10-15-2007, 02:23 PM
The article is legit. The internet study, maybe not. Hard to say how they're measuring...

rpfreedom08
10-15-2007, 02:27 PM
here you go

http://www.rx7club.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=262198&d=1192479984

kylejack
10-15-2007, 02:29 PM
Alexa is hardly scientific, though.

Lord Xar
10-15-2007, 02:29 PM
I got a reply from him:

Hi Dean - Unique visitors is the statistic I'm using according to Nielsen's, not page views. Regards.

jj111
10-15-2007, 02:30 PM
Google Search Trends Ron Paul vs. Top Contenders in Both Parties 2007 October Only
http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22Ron+Paul%22%2C+%22Romney%22%2C%22Fred+ Thompson%22%2C+%22Hillary%22%2C+%22Obama%22&ctab=0&geo=US&geor=all&date=2007-10&sort=0


Google Search Trends Ron Paul vs. Top Contenders in Both Parties 2007 All Year
http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22Ron+Paul%22%2C+%22Romney%22%2C%22Fred+ Thompson%22%2C+%22Hillary%22%2C+%22Obama%22&ctab=0&geo=US&geor=all&date=2007&sort=0


Google Search Trends Compared to Other GOP 2007 October Only (3 day lag)
http://google.com/trends?q=%22ron+paul%22%2C+%22fred+thompson%22%2C+ giuliani%2C+romney%2C+%22huckabee%22&ctab=0&geo=all&date=2007-10&sort=0


Google Search Trends Compared to Other GOP 2007 All Year
http://google.com/trends?q=%22ron+paul%22%2C+%22fred+thompson%22%2C+ giuliani%2C+romney%2C+huckabee&ctab=0&geo=all&date=2007&sort=0

Hitwise Ranking and Marketshare of Top Republican Candidate Websites (weekly, with a 7 to 14 day lag) – updated on Fridays?
http://www.hitwise.com/political-data-center/republican-candidates.php

Hitwise Top Presidential Candidate Websites
http://www.hitwise.com/political-data-center/key-candidates.php

Hitwise Top 10 Presidential Candidate Search Terms
http://www.hitwise.com/political-data-center/key-candidates-searchterms.php

Hitwise Top 10 Political Search Terms (last 4 weeks, with a 9 to 14 day lag)
http://www.hitwise.com/political-data-center/category-searchterms.php

quantcast.com Ron Paul
http://www.quantcast.com/audience-search.jsp?domain=www.ronpaul2008.com

Quantcast.com Ron Paul plus top GOP (3 week lag)
http://www.quantcast.com/traffic-compare.jsp?domain0=ronpaul2008.com&domain1=fred08.com&domain2=johnmccain.com&domain3=mittromney.com&domain4=&relative=Y


Alexa ratings of all candidate websites all parties
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=ronpaul2008.com&site1=fred08.com&site2=mittromney.com&site3=hillaryclinton.com&site4=barackobama.com&y=r&z=3&h=400&w=700&range=7d&size=Large&url=ronpaul2008.com

Alexa ratings of all candidate websites GOP only (2 day lag)
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=ronpaul2008.com&site1=mikehuckabee.com&site2=mittromney.com&site3=johnmccain.com&site4=fred08.com&y=r&z=3&h=400&w=700&range=7d&size=Large&url=ronpaul2008.com

Most searched terms on Internet
www.technorati.com/pop

6 month Alexa statistics Ron Paul only
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=http%3A%2F%2Fronpaul2008.com


Ron Paul Most Viewed Candidate on YouTube surpassing 4.5 million views
YouTube Viewing Statistics
www.techpresident.com/youtube

kylejack
10-15-2007, 02:30 PM
Okay, leave the article author alone. Its not his fault Nielsen has it wrong.

steph3n
10-15-2007, 02:35 PM
it is wholly impossible to know the unique pageviews without reviewing the logs.

I have been in this business a long time and even unique pageviews varies by program analyzing the raw logs :d

kylejack
10-15-2007, 02:39 PM
it is wholly impossible to know the unique pageviews without reviewing the logs.

I have been in this business a long time and even unique pageviews varies by program analyzing the raw logs :d

Presumably its pageviews of people who have Nielsen Netratings monitors installed on their computer.

Dustancostine
10-15-2007, 02:50 PM
Presumably its pageviews of people who have Nielsen Netratings monitors installed on their computer.

Like a RP supporter would ever "Chip" their computer!!! :D

kylejack
10-15-2007, 03:00 PM
Like a RP supporter would ever "Chip" their computer!!! :D

That's what Alexa is. :eek:

steph3n
10-15-2007, 03:01 PM
That's what Alexa is. :eek:

true and alexa gets nothing from me :D

nullvalu
10-15-2007, 03:07 PM
give him figures.

I'd rather give him the finger

nullvalu
10-15-2007, 03:09 PM
how's this?

http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?c=1&f=555555&u=ronpaul2008.com&u=hillaryclinton.com&r=6m&y=r&z=3&h=300&w=610

nullvalu
10-15-2007, 03:12 PM
3 month change - hillaryclinton.com down 40%, ronpaul2008.com up 68%

Alabama Supporter
10-15-2007, 03:52 PM
Don't mess with the writer. He is only covering the study. We don't have to piss off every writer.

stu2002
10-25-2007, 01:27 PM
HitWise Numbers In - Ron Paul Swamps Other Republicans with 45% Market Share
Posted October 25th, 2007 by MIforRonPaulcom
in

* hitwise
* republican website traffic
* Ron Paul surge

Hitwise.com, an Experian company, just released figures for week ending 10-20-2007 on presidential candidate web traffic. Ron Paul is number one in all categories. The significance here is that this is a huge sampling over 10,000,000 web users (one heck of a poll).

Top Republican Candidate 2008 Websites

Rank Website Market Share
1. www.ronpaul2008.com 45.48%
2. www.mikehuckabee.com 15.53%
3. www.joinrudy2008.com 11.32%
4. www.fred08.com 10.9%
5. www.mittromney.com 7.65%
6. www.johnmccain.com 5.22%
7. www.gohunter08.com 3.9%

Top Presidential Candidate 2008 Websites

Rank Website Market Share
1. www.ronpaul2008.com 23.94%
2. www.barackobama.com 18.61%
3. www.hillaryclinton.com 12.29%
4. www.mikehuckabee.com 8.18%
5. www.joinrudy2008.com 5.96%
6. www.fred08.com 5.74%
7. www.johnedwards.com 5.6%
8. www.mittromney.com 4.03%
9. www.joebiden.com 3.21%
10. www.dennis4president.com 2.96%
11. www.johnmccain.com 2.75%
12. www.chrisdodd.com 2.23%
13. www.gohunter08.com 2.06%
14. www.richardsonforpresident.com 1.62%
15. www.gravel2008.us 0.83%

Top 10 Presidential Candidate 2008 Search Terms

Rank Search Term Volume
1. ron paul 10.45%
2. hillary clinton 4.86%
3. barack obama 4.25%
4. joe biden 4.19%
5. fred thompson 3.27%
6. ron paul 2008 2.73%
7. mitt romney 2.40%
8. john edwards 2.34%
9. mike huckabee 1.97%
10. obama 1.85%

We all know that these figures don't translate necessarily into votes. It does show us though that the American people are shopping for a leader. And seems they're walking the aisle at Ron-Mart a wee bit more than all the other candidates.

Maybe they're realizing that it's cheaper to elect a president that'll follow the Constitution and rule of law in our land, than to accept more of the same old out-dated and unpopular crap we've tolerated for WAY TO LONG!

Find all the details here:
http://hitwise.com/political-data-center/
Bookmark this as they don't offer a link from their home page at this point to this information.

rs3515
10-25-2007, 01:34 PM
Anyone have the email address for Nielsen? LOL ....

FrankRep
10-25-2007, 01:34 PM
The author is: Jeremy Pelofsky

http://blogs.reuters.com/blog/author/jeremypelofsky/

rs3515
10-25-2007, 01:35 PM
That was mentioned already ... he was just quoting a study from Nielsen.

Tidewise
10-25-2007, 03:12 PM
I have been in publishing a long time. He is just being a lazy journalist - just mildly rewording a press release from Nielsen without doing any other research on his own (such as Google Trends, backward links, Alexa, etc.).

Compare his "article" with the actual press release:

http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/pr/pr_071015.pdf

Don't be afraid to call him out on his failure to put some value-added into his article. He deserves it.

http://blogs.reuters.com/blog/author/jeremypelofsky/
jeremy.pelofsky@reuters.com