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.
I have never gone to Drudge.
Leni
I did exactly that about 9 months ago.
Works pretty good on the computer but it is a mess on the smartphone.
I especially like the links to Burning Platform stuff on Fridays and other days too, but usually like the Friday one the best.
who or what is a drudge?
Conservatives still go to Drudge Report?
That’s tame you prude.
Is it like butterfinger or whoever that guy from Indiana called himself?
Whatcha you talkin’ about, Willis?
I used to go to rightreads.news, but it’s been down for a week.
If you use Whatfinger, you had better have a strong ad blocker in place. Otherwise, your page will fill up with all sorts of ads.
I much prefer The Liberty Daily which has a layout like Drudge but unlike Drudge is a 100% conservative news site.
Already did.
JoMa
...“Revolver News”...
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Owner was on Bannon’s War Room Pandemic and is, I assume, involved with the anti-CCP/Republic of China effort.
War Room is also very targeted on vote fraud and has great, knowledgeable guests committed to the Trump administration.
I prefer Rantingly and The Liberty Daily.
Now, if they could just do a little tinkering with that front page format. Make it more than a ticker tape of articles.
All in good time, perhaps. This is still a very new website.
Same goes for the Bongino Report. Most of Bongino’s stories are the same 14 things you could find on any other website that particular day. He will learn what works. Of that I have no doubt.
I prefer Liberty Daily, Rantingly and Bongino Report to Whatfinger.....too much extraneous junk on Whatfinger, burns data when using 4G.
Haven’t been to Drudge in a couple years now, ever since it became obvious he was against President Trump.
Way too many obnoxious ads. Not going to use it as long as it’s like that.
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