Counter-Currents/North American New Right Newsletter: April & May 2014
Greg Johnson1,297 words
Dear Friends of Counter-Currents,
1. Our Readership and Web Traffic
Our traffic remains essentially plateaued since February, when a dramatic drop in our search engine traffic took place. Before that time, it was routine that articles published years ago would enjoy 1,000 or more reads per month. Many of them were regular fixtures in our top 20. Now, these articles receive under 100 visits per month, and all of our top 20 are recently published.
Given the possibility that Counter-Currents is being specifically targeted, in the coming months we will create a mirror site with a different domain name, which should increase the visibility of our back catalog of excellent writing. If you would like to donate specifically to the cost of this project, please visit our donate page — and thank you.
Month | Unique Visitors | Number of Visits | Pages Viewed | “Hits” | Bandwidth |
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June 2010 | 6,145 | 10,328 | 70,732 | 200,824 | 6.08 GB |
July 2010 | 9,387 | 17,329 | 119,254 | 348,172 | 10.01 GB |
August 2010 | 12,174 | 22,348 | 93,379 | 333,614 | 10.17 GB |
September 2010 | 17,063 | 34,510 | 147,051 | 580,550 | 16.39 GB |
October 2010 | 17,848 | 35,921 | 140,365 | 611,367 | 17.93 GB |
November 2010 | 26,054 | 48,336 | 171,833 | 915,553 | 26.39 GB |
December 2010 | 26,161 | 50,975 | 192,905 | 1,101,829 | 27.79 GB |
January 2011 | 28,583 | 60,005 | 198,249 | 1,736,067 | 34.06 GB |
February 2011 | 29,737 | 61,519 | 213,121 | 2,081,558 | 40.13 GB |
March 2011 | 29,768 | 62,077 | 220,053 | 2,485,001 | 52.21 GB |
April 2011 | 20,091 | 58,037 | 223,291 | 2,729,449 | 54.65 GB |
May 2011 | 36,596 | 78,103 | 274,841 | 1,334,472 | 47.59 GB |
June 2011 | 28,629 | 57,920 | 264,928 | 1,004,128 | 22.78 GB |
July 2011 | 30,186 | 66,093 | 416,309 | 1,952,047 | 71.23 GB |
August 2011 | 40,002 | 81,012 | 502,282 | 2,083,593 | 53.18 GB |
September 2011 | 45,427 | 88,782 | 422,902 | 481,909 | 11.67 GB |
October 2011 | 45,590 | 90,444 | 337,137 | 468,197 | 17.78 GB |
November 2011 | 44,445 | 88,824 | 330,664 | 339,521 | 14.22 GB |
December 2011 | 49,845 | 97,223 | 337,881 | 344,210 | 13.65 GB |
January 2012 | 56,633 | 107,644 | 408,373 | 433,736 | 21.38 GB |
February 2012 | 53,345 | 99,607 | 376,288 | 411,915 | 14.43 GB |
March 2012 | 55,572 | 106,029 | 441,170 | 475,719 | 16.36 GB |
April 2012 | 56,772 | 110,029 | 421,446 | 428,678 | 16.08 GB |
May 2012 | 56,323 | 111,533 | 400,243 | 404,483 | 15.70 GB |
June 2012 | 55,112 | 110,246 | 400,141 | 404,162 | 13.66 GB |
July 2012 | 52,304 | 108,340 | 367,589 | 373,470 | 12.52 GB |
August 2012 | 41,616 | 96,314 | 305,729 | 329,353 | 12.23 GB |
September 2012 | 66,719 | 132,503 | 455,938 | 493,856 | 17.73 GB |
October 2012 | 81,739 | 157,152 | 410,096 | 416,362 | 16.36 GB |
November 2012 | 107,956 | 199,912 | 584,115 | 755,419 | 29.95 GB |
December 2012 | 109,265 | 224,793 | 926,117 | 1,143,248 | 37.53 GB |
January 2013 | 100,054 | 208,004 | 900,577 | 1,012,979 | 40.81 GB |
February 2013 | 81,999 | 185,688 | 1,396,374 | 1,498,502 | 75.33 GB |
March 2013 | 83,303 | 189,545 | 1,477,001 | 1,778,006 | 94.98 GB |
April 2013 | 81,328 | 192,910 | 1,528,169 | 1,634,540 | 91.16 GB |
May 2013 | 95,667 | 221,260 | 1,758,299 | 1,897,099 | 103.67 GB |
June 2013 | 80,409 | 197,258 | 1,730,633 | 1,884,016 | 103.77 GB |
July 2013 | 82,106 | 200,961 | 1,619,899 | 1,813,531 | 124.29 GB |
January 2014 | 82,567 | 209,131 | 1,130,149 | 1,224,623 | 98.64 GB |
February 2014 | 55,805 | 100,271 | 300,207 | 346,026 | 6.18 GB |
March 2014 | 65,619 | 117,881 | 335,592 | 380,785 | 7.89 GB |
April 2014 | 56,511 | 110,621 | 318,831 | 367,018 | 6.91 GB |
May 2014 | 59,321 | 116,293 | 321,397 | 363,432 | 7.08 GB |
2. Our Webzine
In April, we added 53 posts to the website and in May we added 43, for a total of 3,386 posts since going online on June 11, 2010. We also added more than 1,800 comments.
3. April’s Top 20 Pieces (with number of reads)
- Greg Johnson, “On the Necessity of a New Right,” 4,093
- Greg Johnson, “The Burden of Hitler, 2014,” 2,575
- Andrew Hamilton, “Racial Dominance,” 2,564
- Gregory Hood, “Fear of a White Rancher,” 2,385
- Greg Johnson, “Dealing with the Holocaust,” 2,253
- Greg Johnson, “Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? as Anti-Semitic/Christian-Gnostic Allegory,” 2,149
- Greg Johnson, “The Counter-Currents Spring Cleaning Sale,” 2,147
- Gregory Hood, “The American Dream vs. the American Nation,” 2,039
- Andrew Hamilton, “Population Geneticist L. L. Cavalli-Sforza & Academic Conformity in Science,” 2,022
- Gregory Hood, “Was America’s Decline Inevitable?,” 2,002
- Gregory Hood, “The Fatherland vs. the Republic,” 1,954
- Gregory Hood, “Freedom vs. Identity,” 1,949
- Gregory Hood, “The Culture, the Creed, and the Dream,” 1,947
- Colin Liddell, “Vladimir Putin and the Sane Man Theory,” 1,944
- Trevor Lynch, “Blade Runner,” 1,898
- Andrew Hamilton, “The Gordian Knot and Some Race History,” 1,885
- Émile Durand, “Look to Ukraine,” 1,839
- Gregory Hood, “Traitor to the Gods,” 1,809
- Andrew Hamilton, “European Colonialism: A Different Perspective,” 1,796
- Greg Johnson, “Heidegger on World Jewry in The Black Notebooks,” 1,782
Oddly enough, all but two of April’s top 20 articles were by three authors: Greg Johnson (a.k.a. Trevor Lynch) with 7, Gregory Hood with 7, and Andrew Hamilton with 4.
4. May’s Top 20 Articles (with number of reads)
- Greg Johnson, “Changes Afoot at Counter-Currents,” 3,324
- Andrew Hamilton, “On Russia, Ukraine, and White Nationalism,” 3,289
- Andrew Hamilton, “Sympathy without Empathy” 2,941
- Greg Johnson, “Propaganda and Organization,” 2,709
- Andrew Hamilton, “A Cringeworthy Ad,” 2,672
- James J. O’Meara reviews Look Who’s Back, 2,208
- Colin Liddell, “The Black Baseline,” 2,195
- Simon Lote, “UKIP: The Evolution of Closet Racism,” 2,115
- Émile Durand, “On Russia, Ukraine, and Honor,” 1,991
- Irmin Vinson, “A Different Kind of Holocaust Commemoration,” 1,916
- James J. O’Meara reviews Hitler: The Adjournment, 1,912
- Juleigh Howard-Hobson reviews Mjolnir Magazine, 1,853
- Gregory Hood, “For Others and their Prosperity,” 1,830
- Christopher Pankhurst, “Posthuman Prospects,” 1,791
- Patrick Le Brun, “Taking City Hall: France 2014,” 1,724
- Patrick Le Brun, “Front National: The #1 Party in France,” 1,667
- Greg Johnson, “Remembering Julius Evola,” 1,628
- Christopher Pankhurst, “God Has Become Cancer: Damien Hirst, Religion, and Death,” 1,563
- Greg Johnson, “Remembering Dominique Venner,” 1,556
- Gregory Hood, “The Question,” 1,554
In May, our top 20 articles were more broadly distributed among our writers: Greg Johnson (4), Andrew Hamilton (3), Gregory Hood (2), James O’Meara (2), Christopher Pankhurst (2), Patrick Le Brun (2), with single articles by Colin Liddell, Simon Lote, Émile Durand, Irmin Vinson, and Juleigh Howard-Hobson. Special mention is due Irmin Vinson, who has returned to writing after a long absence, and Christopher Pankhurst, whose article on Damien Hirst is an outstanding “only at Counter-Currents” contribution.
5. April’s Top 20 Countries
Our web statistics program gives us a country-by-country breakdown of our readership. Here are April’s top 20 countries:
- United States
- United Kingdom
- Germany
- Canada
- France
- China
- Turkey
- Sweden
- Portugal
- Australia
- Russia
- Netherlands
- India
- Ukraine
- Poland
- Finland
- Brazil
- Greece
- Italy
- Romania
6. May’s Top 20 Countries
- United States
- France
- Turkey
- Germany
- Canada
- United Kingdom
- China
- Sweden
- Australia
- Netherlands
- Hong Kong
- Ukraine
- Brazil
- Russia
- Portugal
- Venezuela
- Finland
- Czech Republic
- Poland
- India
Given our discussions of the Ukraine crisis, it is no surprise that we had many readers from Ukraine and Russia. What is surprising is that Turkey has suddenly entered our top ten countries. China and Hong Kong are also highly ranked. I would like to hear from readers in Turkey and China. Who are you, and what are you getting out of Counter-Currents?
7. April’s Top 20 Cities
- New York
- London
- Sydney
- Stockholm
- Chicago
- Melbourne
- Los Angeles
- Toronto
- San Francisco
- Berlin
- Seattle
- Paris
- Philadelphia
- Helsinki
- Houston
- Washington, D.C.
- Montreal
- Dublin
- Vancouver, B.C.
- Athens
Eight of our top 20 are in the United States. Four are on the west coast of North America: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Vancouver. Three are in Canada: Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Two are in Australia: Melbourne and Sydney. Eight are national capitals: London, Berlin, Washington D.C., Stockholm, Paris, Helsinki, Dublin, and Athens.
8. May’s Top 20 Cities
- New York
- London
- Sydney
- Melbourne
- Stockholm
- Los Angeles
- Toronto
- Chicago
- Berlin
- Paris
- Helsinki
- Houston
- Dublin
- San Francisco
- Seattle
- Vancouver
- Philadelphia
- Mumbai
- Athens
- Washington, D.C.
May’s list is pretty much the same as April’s, although Montreal has dropped out and Mumbai has appeared for the first time.
9. April’s Top 30 Universities
If we treat university addresses (.edu) as a separate country, it would be number 7 in our country rankings. Visits from University addresses are not, however, a good measure of how many college students are reading us, since students are naturally cautious about browsing politically incorrect websites on campus systems. These are the top 30 universities in terms of visits.
- University of Miami
- University of Scranton
- Bergen University, Norway
- Fairfield University
- University of Warwick
- University of Strathclyde
- University of Cambridge
- University of Oslo
- New York University
- University of Huddersfield
- University of Oregon
- University of Pennsylvania
- Freie Universität, Berlin
- University of Missouri
- Boston College
- Columbia University
- University of Chicago
- Oxford University
- University of Kent
- University of Tennessee
- National Law School of India University, Bangalore
- University of South Florida
- South Dakota State University
- University of Calgary
- San Jose State University
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Harvard University
- Stanford University
- University of Washington, Seattle
- Bergen University, Norway
- Fairfield University
- University of Cambridge
- University of Miami
- University of Strathclyde
- University of Warwick
- University of Oslo
- New York University
- University of Oregon
- University of Scranton
- University of Pennsylvania
- Freie Universität, Berlin
- Emory University
- Columbia University
- University of Huddersfield
- Boston College
- Harvard University
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of Kent
- University of Missouri
- University of Chicago
- Oxford University
- National Law School of India University, Bangalore
- Stanford University
- Skidmore College
- University of South Florida
- University of Tennessee
- University of Calgary
- San Jose State University
- Eckerd College
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20 comments
Greg,
I noticed that you wrote in the very first paragraph above:
“Our traffic remains essentially plateaued since February, when a dramatic drop in our search engine traffic took place. Before that time, it was routine that articles published years ago would enjoy 1,000 or more reads per month. Many of them were regular fixtures in our top 20. Now, these articles receive under 100 visits per month, and all of our top 20 are recently published.”
I’ve recently been thinking that it might be worth looking at the literature on SEO (search engine optimization) techniques, as well as SEO software, such as those reviewed at:
http://seo-software-review.toptenreviews.com/
However, as I’m ignorant in these matters, have many other things to do, and don’t know what you currently do with regard to SEO, I mightn’t be able to provide much help here. Perhaps some readers might be able to offer useful advice and recommendations.
I would like to know more about SEO, but realistically that is not going to happen in this lifetime. If there is anyone out there who can advise me, I would me most grateful.
Greg,
As I indicated above, I’m ignorant concerning SEO techniques and software, but I could do the following:
1. I could search for useful literature on SEO techniques. To do this, I would consult online book vendors (e.g., Amazon); I would examine the websites of publishers and imprints (e.g., O’Reilly, Wiley); I would carefully read reviews of books; I would read what I can of books online at websites like Amazon and Google Books; I would examine books at larger book stores. I would focus on books which are recent and which appear to be useful as introductory works concerning SEO techniques.
I’m aware of one book in which the material is effectively divided into a four-month program and in which the work can be done in small instalments. Given the constraints on your time, this book might be ideal, but I’d like to take a closer look at it.
2. I could search for information concerning SEO software.
The objective of the above work would be to establish a starting point for learning and inquiry regarding SEO techniques and software. You could use these to kick-start your own work in these matters. You don’t need to know everything, or read books from cover to cover, or be fully knowledgeable of and proficient in the use of SEO techniques and software. Get a grip on these things, and increase your leverage in these matters over time. Sapere aude!
Given that Counter-Currents is a webzine with extremely ambitious metapolitical aims, and given recent changes in traffic patterns, SEO is clearly important and possibly urgent.
SEO is a black box that needs to be pried open.
I wonder if Jewish techniques of SEO could be the subject of an article by Andrew Hamilton. A possible title might be “Is Google Good for the Jews?” Hamilton has occasionally commented on how the Jews have worked to censor the internet (both formally and informally, overtly and covertly), how certain areas of the internet seem to have been blacked out from search engines, and how certain material seems to have gone into the memory hole.
All of these are good ideas.
Interesting numbers. Especially Turkey and China being among the top countries with regard to visitors. Could proxy servers be (a part of) the explanation?
That very well could be so. The proximity of Turkey to Ukraine and Russia might also be a factor.
Greg is Trevor Lynch? Wow, your productively really is amazing.
Thanks. But I need to do more.
University of Miami?
Interesting. I feel like I’m the only one in Miami, FL who reads CC.
No, you’re not the only one. I’m rather surprised UM ranks so high as well.
It is very curious, indeed.
Any thoughts why Spain doesn’t even appear in the ranking? Any details about visitors from Barcelona or close cities would be of interest to me. Thanks.
We have many Spanish readers, and Spain is usually in the top 30 countries, but not often in the top 20. I can’t share information about IP addresses, since that would be a violation of privacy. But if people in the Barcelona region wish to meet you, they can contact me, and I can put them in touch with you. I am happy to do that. Of course it should be borne in mind that you, or anyone who wishes to contact you, could simply be an anti- who is trolling for damaging information about dissidents.
I do SEO so can give you my opinion. Firstly forget ‘hits’ and ‘pages viewed’, often these stats includes many bots and auto trawlers. What matters is unique visitors. It is true you have lost around 40-50 % of your traffic since late 2012.
Google has many ranking algorithm changes, around 3 major ones a year, that can makes sites lose their traffic. This loss may be due to offsite factors, such as downgrading the external sites that were linking to you, but also onsite factors.
Onsite factor issue : none of your articles had internal linking to any other articles on your site. Now from a purist writers perspective I understand why you would not want to do this. But it does help SEO to have internal linking. An overkill example is what Justin Raimondo does at antiwar.com.
You also barely have any social activity such as Facebook, Twitter and Google plus, which has started taking on a much larger share of importance when determining ranking factors. Obviously, the UN-PC themes of CC means you are always going to struggle on the social media side of things.
So I hope this may explain why your articles may not be ranking as well as before and why traffic is down. It is also possible that Google may be down grading rankings based on themes that are considered racist and hate speech, but I would not presume this. Try and find other sites like your and compare traffic stats (unique visitors). If there is a trend across many UN-PC sites then it may be a factor.
It would be extremely unlikely that CC itself is being ‘individually targeted’.
Thanks for this. I will bear it in mind. We do link to our own articles when appropriate.
I would describe linking to other CC articles, particularly my own, as a key component of of my particular “style” such as it is.
Yohan,
As someone who works with SEO, can you make any recommendations regarding (1) books on SEO techniques, (2) SEO software, and (3) websites and blogs dealing with SEO? A short list of recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
The owners of Google probably do not approve of White Nationalism, but so far, it is easier to rely on Google than on other WN blogs!
wow university of bergen number 1. Haha that must all be coming from me, cc must be an obscure site in norway. I also have a friend browsing cc studying in oslo, the oslo ranking must be from him.
Don’t be so sure you are all alone. Norway is a small country, but it is almost always in our top 20.
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