Posted on 09/20/2020 11:40:18 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
It’s no secret that the Drudge Report has now gone over to the dark side of American politics and become just another corrupt propaganda site for the Democrat Party and the American Left. Matt Drudge, whose site became famous as the Internet maverick that outed Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, is a famed Trump hater, along with his best buddy, Ann Coulter.
Drudge began tilting his news aggregation service towards the Left shortly after President Trump’s inauguration. Though I have not seen them confirmed, rumors have flown for months that Drudge in fact sold out, and entered into lucrative financial agreements with some of these legacy media outlets to parrot their content on his site.
Things have only trended increasingly left over time, and Drudge’s previously loyal web audience has abandoned him in droves as a result. This collapse in Drudge’s audience created a vacuum for news consumers looking for a more balanced approach, looking for a news aggregator that balances out the constant drumbeat of leftism spewed by the corrupt legacy news media by also presenting viewpoints from the rapidly expanding new media-based universe of conservative-oriented news.
Saturday News Roundup: Adios Tik-Tok, Bye-Bye Bolton Book Advance, and America's Garbage News Media VDO.AI A good number of such conservative-oriented aggregator sites have jumped in to try to fill this vacuum, some of which are named above. They all have merit, but to me, one of these sites has consistently stood above the others, and it is now making serious inroads into absorbing Drudge’s fleeing audience.
Readers at DBDailyUpdate have no doubt noticed that, for the last two and a half years, I have added a note at the bottom of every post advocating Whatfinger.com as my preferred aggregator. Many readers have in fact told me that they initially found this site via a link from Whatfinger, since the folks there began linking to most of my content a couple of years go, and I don’t doubt it.
To be completely transparent, DBDailyUpdate does not have any sort of financial relationship with Whatfinger, but there is no question that Whatfinger drives thousands of hits to my little operation every day, thus helping with the advertising revenue.
Today, the folks who run Whatfinger posted a note describing their revised linking process and revealing stats that detail their site’s incredible growth.
Here’s an excerpt from that note:
As of September 19, 2020, Whatfinger News is now approximately 25.3% of the size of the Drudge Report… making us larger than almost all aggregates below us combined. Below is Google Stats, which Similarweb bases their own stats on… as each day passes now the stats will reflect what Google Analytics shows below… Whatfinger News is now daily doing over 500K pageviews, most days will be 550K plus... making Whatfinger News a 16 million pageview site….
ONLY Drudge is a larger aggregate, but we’re closing fast… With a little publicity, we can overtake him. One word from President Trump or some major publicity, and we can spurt up even faster. Then we can truly help President Trump win over Socialism and the evil that now threatens our nation from the left… [End]
Please click on this link and go read the rest. It’s amazing stuff.
Also, please note that links to topline articles currently live at Whatfinger appear in the upper left-hand corner of every page of DBDailyUpdate. Anytime you see something that piques your interest, just click on it and return some traffic to Whatfinger.
One final action item: If you have any relationship with anyone in the Trump Administration or Trump Campaign, please do anything you can to raise their awareness of Whatfinger. The President recently re-tweeted a tweet that mentioned one of Whatfinger’s competitors, which will no doubt increase that site’s traffic. If President Trump could be convinced to do something similar related to Whatfinger it would no doubt help Whatfinger cut even more into Drudge’s declining audience.
Drudge is the #EnemyOfThePeople now every bit as much as that tag applies to CNN, MSNBC and the New York Times. If you still have Drudge marked as one of your web browser’s bookmarks, do us all – and yourself – a big favor and delete it and replace it with a bookmark of Whatfinger.
Thanks.
That is all.
Odd. It worked on my VPN. But the content seems a bit hokey.
It’s been >20 years for me.
Thanks so much to the alternative linkers. BTTT!
(haven’t paid attention to Fedoraboy in years. Nice try doorMatt)
Why is Freerepublic still linked at Drudge??
Among with sites already linked in this thread. I’ll add
https://63red.com/news
https://bonginoreport.com/
https://deepclips.com/
https://www.sott.net/
After I check Freerepublic first, of course.
well, I think my site is better, no obnoxious ads, in fact, no ads at all. and rather than a shameless insertion of my domain, I will let you figure out what domain that might be.
Whatfinger, similar to Liberty Daily, tends to editorialize too much vs just reporting. One example from Liberty D.
They like to call the Corona Masks ‘Face Diapers”. Silly and needlessly insulting to those with compromised immune systems who do chose to wear the masks. Not every person who wears a mask is a lobotomized, drooling Sheep. Whatfinger tend to be too busy with pop ups and annoying Gifs. Maybe that’s changed.
I heard some recent recommendations for the site called
“Revolver News”. I was somewhat unimpressed, mainly due to their format of presenting stories in one long, center paged column. In order to see most of the articles, you have to keep on scrolling down, down, further down.
One thing I liked about Drudge and more recently, Citizen Free Press, is that you can view a large cluster of article choices at once, then decide where to click.
Citizen Free Press is pretty good, the least hysterical and one of the most professional of the newer conservative websites.
REAL conservatives rarely read the Drudge report that much in the first place. ; )
Same
Leni
NEVER go to Drudge. Go to Bongino Report.
Amen...really appreciate the content but Whatfinger is impossible to read...way too busy, too much content for an aggregate news site, and an exhausting layout with type colors shifting constantly for no reason...they should spend a couple of hundred dollars with an art director simplifying and unifying the page...if they want humor and videos, fine. Put them as an alternative with a button on the bottom. The secret to Drudge was its ease of use and uncluttered page design, which for all practical purposes was NO design...sorta like the Kiplinger Report which owed its success to good content presented briefly and easily read. Drudge probably copied it...suggest Whatfinger copy Drudge is they want readership.
I like Whatfinger but it’s too hard to navigate, too busy.
Needs to be simplified like Drudge is.
Ping, little buddy.
Conservatives still go there? It’s long been no different from any other rag or tabloid on the netty tubes.
Shoot I gave up Drudge decades ago when every damn thing had the emergency light gif at the top. You can only have so many emergencies before emergencies same passe.
Dropped drudge when he sold it.
Real conservatives know DRUDGE dont own it anymore .. And Joe dont tweet.
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