HERE WE GO AGAIN

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I should be used to this by now, but it still pisses me off. It almost always follows the same path. I just plod away day after day trying to make this blog interesting, insightful, entertaining, and most of all a thorn in the side of the establishment and their false narratives. Then I get an email from an ad company saying how much they love my blog and would like to work with me. I usually ignore them, but they keep hounding me, so I tell them I’ll pilot their ads and see how much revenue they generate. If it is less than $5 per day, I boot them.

Pixfuture approached me two months ago. We loaded their code and they were generating about $20 per day for a month and a half. It doesn’t sound like much, but it adds up to $7,000 per year. Nothing to sneeze at. Last week the revenue suddenly dropped to $5 per day. And after a couple more days down to 3 cents per day. I emailed my contact and this is the response I received:

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As Drudge Report falters amid anti-Trump shift, rivals on right gain ground

Via Washington Times

Matt Drudge carries a laptop computer as he walks up the stairs at his Hollywood-area apartment in Los Angeles on June 18, 1997. The Drudge Report, the daily barrage of breaking news, gossip and politics he e-mails to some 65,000 subscribers, is hotter than hot. (AP Photo/Michael Caulfield) ** FILE **

The Drudge Report is still the king of conservative aggregator websites, but its rivals are gaining ground.

Five right-tilting upstarts — Whatfinger News, Liberty Daily, Rantingly, NewsAmmo and Gab Trends — increased their average monthly traffic and engagement, as measured by average visit duration and average pages per visit, from September-October 2018 to 2019, according to SimilarWeb, which shared its data with The Washington Times.

At the same time, the marketing-intelligence company found traffic to the Drudge Report during that period declined by 15%. From July to October, Drudge dropped from 96 million total visits to 77 million, prompting recent headlines such as True Pundit’s “Drudge Bleeds Out as Conservatives Flee.”

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