In June Politics Plus started picking up again, as I returned to more active blogging after my illness. In July, we continued the upward trend, despite the lack of a viral article, and I am quite pleased.

Here is our latest summary:

In the monthly totals, a Site is any website from which someone accessed our server, a Hit is every access attempt to our server, and a File is every access attempt to our server that returned data. The difference between Hits and Files is from access attempts that were sent in error or damaged in transit and failed attempts by hackers, spammers, phishers, and Republicans to access the back end and take control of the site. Any questions?

Here is our latest Clustrmap:

Our map was archived in February, so what you see is from March 1.

Here are are top five articles:

It amazes me that people are still reading things I wrote 3.5 years ago

Here are our top Non-blog referrers

Both have over 2,000 referrals each. I have not gone back to posting on Stumbleupon yet, but I thank whoever has been putting our articles there.

Here are our top twelve blog/news referrers for July.

Every time we link to their sites, it increases their ratings, so here’s some linkey-love in return. The best ways you can spread the message to others is to use the share button at the bottom of each article to list our articles on the the networking sites where you belong. Quote PP articles on your own blogs also helps. The operative commandment here is “thou shalt steal.” We’re on the same side here, and I encourage it. Even if you want to repost a whole article, that’s OK. Just link back, please. Also, feel free to swipe my graphics in the articles. If they are labeled with our Politics Plus URL, they are my work.

Here are the top fifteen commenters for July. I remembered and copied them off in time. I don’t count, as I’m the resident big mouth, and I try to reply to every comment, except replies directed at someone else. Those who leave their URLs in their comments, also get linkey-love here.

Lynn Squance (138) Patty (96) Edith Belcher (87) Rixar13 (57) SoINeedAName (46) Jerry Critter (43) Pat A (34) Jim Phillips (31) Joanne D (18) Angelica (12) John Dasef (7) Arielle (6) William Lemeshevsky (6) Yvonne White (5) Lee Evans (4) mamabear (4) Marva (4)

There are two extra, because of a three-way tie for fifteenth.

We have 1,365,825 links on other websites, a slight increase.

Our Technorati rating is way down again at 119, very low on the B List, and they rate us as the 9049th most influential blog in the world. I told you that last months high ratings would not last. None of our 1 million plus links are on websites that have registered with Technorati. If Care2 registered their front page with Technorati, we would be on the A list again.

As of Midnight, August 1, we have 4,319 articles and 44,190 comments.

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