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WND moves into top 1,000 sites
WND ^ | November 15, 2002

Posted on 11/15/2002 7:44:40 AM PST by gubamyster

No. 1 independent newssite shoots up 526 spots in 6 months

Posted: November 15, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com

WorldNetDaily has moved up 526 places to become a top 1,000 website over the last six months, according to new tracking data provided by Alexa.com, a ratings and Web search partner of Amazon.com.

As of today, WorldNetDaily is ranked as the 991st largest website in the world, according to Alexa.

WorldNetDaily's Alexa average ranking over the last three months is somewhat lower at 1,162, reflecting several factors:

Until more recently, Alexa was ranking WorldNetDaily.com and WND.com as two different sites, even though they are identical mirrored sites; Weekend traffic on WorldNetDaily is somewhat lower than weekday traffic, which is more consistently among the top 1,000; More current trends show the site rising quickly. Alexa's rankings show WorldNetDaily substantially larger and attracting bigger audiences than all of the following sites: RushLimbaugh.com, the New York Daily News, CBSNews.com, SkyNews, NPR, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Houston Chronicle, the Dallas Morning News, the Washington Times, AP.org, NewsMax, BusinessWire, TheStreet, U.S. News, Ananova, the Christian Science Monitor, Investors Business Daily, the Jerusalem Post, Lucianne.com, Motley Fool, Baltimore Sun, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, FreeRepublic.com, Denver Post, Miami Herald, Detroit Free Press, the National Enquirer, Philadelphia Inquirer and National Review.

WorldNetDaily is competitive with the following sites in traffic: Los Angeles Times, Salon.com, the Financial Times, Forbes, New York Post, London Telegraph, London Times and the Chicago Tribune.

"There are only a handful of U.S.-based newssites substantially larger than WorldNetDaily," explains Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer. "They include CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, ABC News, Fox News – all major corporate conglomerates. Only the DrudgeReport of those news-oriented enterprises designed explicitly for the Internet – is larger than WorldNetDaily."

In fact, Farah points out, WorldNetDaily is actually significantly larger in total traffic than its rankings indicate. Most of the site's revenue is produced through e-commerce activities on its shopping site, ShopNetDaily. But ShopNetDaily's traffic is ranked separately. By itself, WorldNetDaily's store ranks in the top 20,000 websites in the world.

WorldNetDaily also remains No. 1 among all newssites in time spent per user, a distinction it has held for at least three years.

"Our people live on the site," says Farah. "While CNN and MSNBC have audiences that are a mile wide, their support is only an inch deep. WorldNetDaily's 3 million unique readers are passionate about their news choice, and they prove it by spending hours on the site every month."

In addition, for nearly two years, WorldNetDaily ranked as the "most popular website in the world" in rankings by the independent European website Global100.com. The Global100.com weekly poll, participated in by Internet surfers worldwide, measured popularity and reader loyalty. Founded in 1993 by software engineer Jurgen Appelo of The Netherlands, the service began as WorldCharts.com – a weekly, global top-100 list of the most popular PC games. WorldNetDaily dominated the Global100.com charts until the day the company shut down in 2001.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: wnd; worldnetdaily

1 posted on 11/15/2002 7:44:40 AM PST by gubamyster
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To: gubamyster
I'm pleased that WND is so successful but I still miss the "special", above the banner, animal stories.
2 posted on 11/15/2002 7:52:42 AM PST by concentric circles
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To: gubamyster
WTG, Mr. Farah and WND!
3 posted on 11/15/2002 7:55:13 AM PST by CWRWinger
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To: gubamyster
Link:
World Watch Daily

4 posted on 11/15/2002 8:00:12 AM PST by ppaul
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To: gubamyster
Does anyone know what ever happened to their lawsuit about being denied a senate press pass?
5 posted on 11/15/2002 8:12:32 AM PST by One_who_hopes_to_know
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To: gubamyster
These statistics are not right. They are based off of searches. When is the last time I searched for FreeRepublic? Actually I probably never have. I found the link from another site and its been on my favorite links ever since.
6 posted on 11/15/2002 8:27:13 AM PST by Naspino
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To: One_who_hopes_to_know
The Senate Press Committee finaly relented & granted a pass to WND. The suit was dropped.

You can go to WND & read about it. It got pretty good at the end as WND dug up information that one of the committee's sitting members had none of the required press experience and was only a paper boy (he droped newspapers on the corner for delivery). At that point they saw the light & granted WND a pass.
7 posted on 11/15/2002 8:27:30 AM PST by gubamyster
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To: gubamyster
Great news !

"....one of the committee's sitting members had none of the required press experience and was only a paper boy"

I love it when a bureaucrat gets hammered by their own rules !!

8 posted on 11/15/2002 8:34:13 AM PST by One_who_hopes_to_know
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To: ppaul
That's no WND... :)
9 posted on 11/15/2002 8:42:15 AM PST by Kwilliams
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To: One_who_hopes_to_know
WND won its issue against the Capitol Press Corps. It is now a fully-accredited news-gathering organization covering Congress. Although a law suit was filed, the Press Corps caved in before being ordered to do so by the court. (That's my understanding of the situation. They DEFINITELY have their press passes now, after more than a year of stone-walling.)

Congressman Billybob

Click for "Let's Hear It for Fraud -- And REAL Soon"

Click for "to Restore Trust in America"

10 posted on 11/15/2002 8:49:32 AM PST by Congressman Billybob
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To: madfly
fyi
11 posted on 11/15/2002 9:41:41 AM PST by Free the USA
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To: Kwilliams
That's no WND... :)

True, true.

12 posted on 11/15/2002 10:06:14 AM PST by ppaul
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To: gubamyster
Looks like Free Republic is moving up the charts right along with WND:

Click for comparison chart

13 posted on 11/15/2002 12:22:12 PM PST by Jim Robinson
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To: Jim Robinson
I don't see a comparison chart when I click on your link, and I really, really WANT to!
14 posted on 11/15/2002 3:09:41 PM PST by .30Carbine
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To: .30Carbine
Yes, I see they didn't include that in the URL. Go to the site linked above, then enter "worldnetdaily.com" into the box labeled "Compare: freerepublic.com vs." Then click on "Compare Sites." You can also enter multiple sites into the compare box. For example, include "newsmax.com" and "lucianne.com", etc.

15 posted on 11/15/2002 3:23:16 PM PST by Jim Robinson
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To: Jim Robinson
AT the risk of wasting your valuable time, the following is exactly what I get when I click on either your link or that above:

User-agent: googlebot # allow Google crawler
Disallow: /search

User-agent: gulliver # allow Northern Light crawler
Disallow: /search

User-agent: slurp # allow Inktomi crawler
Disallow: /search

User-agent: fast # allow FAST crawler
Disallow: /search

User-agent: scooter # allow AltaVista crawler
Disallow: /search

User-agent: vscooter # allow AltaVista image crawler
Disallow: /search

User-agent: ia_archiver # allow Internet Archive crawler
Disallow: /search

User-agent: * # disallow all other crawlers access
Disallow: /

I must have done something very, very bad, huh?

16 posted on 11/16/2002 6:38:35 AM PST by .30Carbine
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To: .30Carbine
Strange. Ok, try going to Alexa's main page: http://www.alexa.com then enter "freerepublic.com" into the search box. Then click on "Traffic Detail" in the left hand menu. Scroll down a bit and you should see a chart of our activity. Just beneath the chart is a box where you can enter domain names of other sites to compare to Free Republic.
17 posted on 11/16/2002 11:53:39 AM PST by Jim Robinson
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