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Top 75 Seattle Media Websites 2009
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| Gern, really nice work. Have a moment to talk to a Betanews reporter about how the year's shaping up? Would love to hear from you; my email address is AG (at) betanews (dot) com. Thanks! | |
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| Huh? This comment is from many moons ago. I still don't "get" blogging. | ||
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how is daily average revenue calculated. I know that it's at least inaccurate for my silly site; belltownpeople.com. Maybe that's my potential DAR that I'm missing out on? -Jesse |
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| In today's world information is subjective. That's why we try to use several different, unreliable sources for our list. Keeps things mixed up - more like a tossed salad than a melting pot. | ||
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Seattle Times and Quantcast
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| Try http://www.quantcast.com/nwsource.com for the Seattle Times. http://www.quantcast.com/nwsource.com#subdomain shows all the subdomains. Also, can I suggest throwing compete.com into the mix? | |
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| Sorry compete.com does not qualify as a local news site. | ||
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| I meant that you should use compete.com as a source for your ratings. Compete often succeeds in providing traffic guidance on smaller, low-traffic sites where quantcast will fail. Given that all of these traffic services (quantcast, alexa, compete) have flaws, using them all could help smooth out their drawbacks. | ||
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KHCV http://www.tv45.tv/ KSTW http://kstw.com/ Media-Inc(multiple media based magazines) http://www.media-inc.com/ MyQ2 http://www.myq2.com/ PNW Local News(No Seattle presence, but it covers all the communities around Seattle) http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/ Pacific Publishing(community newspapers in Seattle) http://pacificpublishingcompany.com Philips Publishing Group(Four magazines they publish in Seattle) http://www.rhppublishing.com/ Puget Sound Business Journal http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/ Research Channel http://www.researchchannel.org Seattle Woman Magazine http://www.seattlewomanmagazine.com/ I find it a shame that more radio stations in the city don't have better web traffic to their sites. Looking at the list above, you could only say about three made it(KOMO & KVI(Both owned by Fisher), and KIRO. We'll probably see next year ESPN set up a website for ESPNSeattle.com and see that jump up to the top of the list. Curious that both Fox Sports NW or Comcast Sports Northwest haven't spiffed up their sites to be more Seattle centric. Here's the link to the Seattle Public Library list of Seattle Magazines. http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=collection_db_list&dbP AM Radio Stations http://members.shaw.ca/nwbroadcasters/ampage.htm FM Radio Stations http://members.shaw.ca/nwbroadcasters/fmpage.htm |
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| I'm working on it, thanks for this. -Gern | ||
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Wow, thank you!
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| Thanks for that! Looks like I have some work to do. -Alex | |
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other media sites?
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| I'm pretty sure online magazines Grist and Worldchanging would both make the top ten list there, by traffic... | |
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| Good point. I'll expand the list to make it a "top 100" and include any Seattle-based outlet that meets our other stringent criteria. | ||
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What about...
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| seattletransitblog.com :) | |
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| Okay, we're on it. This is truly a Seattle-centric, web-only news site. | ||
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Another one for next years list?
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| NoDepression.com, the roots music authority, is ranked 57,609 on Alexa and 51,136 on Quantcast. We have an international audience but the site is owned an operated in Seattle. | |
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| Yeah I'd say that qualifies. Will add. | ||
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Another site
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| Please include http://npost.com next time. We are a blog / media site located in Seattle. | |
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| Hhmmm ... there's no Seattle news here, just tech stuff. No make list. Oog. | ||
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Official City List
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The City of Seattle's Media list http://www.seattle.gov/html/citizen/media.htm#regional |
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If you trust Alexa...
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If you trust Alexa, Beacon Hill Blog ( http://beaconhill.seattle.wa.us) is the 26,837th most popular site in the country and is run by the Kirkland Seventh-day Adventist Church. And as websiteoutlook.com appears to make its calculations off of Alexa's data, I'm really wondering when our $35 daily checks will start arriving, what with 10,863 daily page views. Quantcast rank puts us somewhere in the ballpark of NW Asian Weekly and Phinneywood, and almost as high as KPLU.org -- there's still something fishy there, too. I'm not sure really whose numbers you can trust to get anything like a reasonable ranking. |
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| Alexa is not getting proper information from the uniquely confusing domain "http://beaconhill.seattle.wa.us." We'll look into it. Alexa is an Amazon.com™ company and is not to be trusted. | ||
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The Mercer Island Blog, Surrounded by Water: http://mercerislandblogger.wordpress.com/ |
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Beacon Hill should be included
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I find it odd that you left out the Beacon Hill Blog: http://beaconhill.seattle.wa.us/ |
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| Working on it. Don't hold your breath. -Editors & Legal Dept. | ||
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| Sorry, Jason's post didn't appear on the page when I posted mine. | ||
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Broken links
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Seattletimes.com link points to seattlepi.com sportsnwmag.com points to http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/sportsnwma |
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| Fixed. Oooourgh. | ||
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While Kitsapsun is on the west side of the pond, they also cover Seattle news
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http://www.kitsapsun.com/ One of my favorite sites to go for fishing and employment advice news. |
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your komo numbers seem strange
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http://www.quantcast.com/komonews.com According to Quantcast, they're getting 82,000 VISITS per day. How can you say Quantcast Daily Page Views (which aren't reported on quantcast) is 23,045? I'm sure that the typical visitor is looking at more than 1/4th of a page! |
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| Fixed that typo, but remember: "All the stats in the universe and three bucks will get you a cup of coffee." | ||
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beaconhill.seattle.wa.us is a perfectly valid .us locality domain
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"You need to go and register a nice domain name of your own" and "Show that you are serious - this is not 1997"? Wow. That's kind of insulting. Locality domains are perfectly legitimate. See http://www.nic.us/register/locality.html. beaconhill.seattle.wa.us has been registered since about 1999 and is a fully delegated locality subdomain under the seattle.wa.us locality domain administered by Northwest Nexus (nwnexus.com). Note that http://seattle.wa.us and http://wa.us do not even resolve. |
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RE: beaconhill.seattle.wa.us is a perfectly valid .us locality domain
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Sorry, those are the rules. I notice that beaconhillseattle.com is not taken so I'd go spend eight bucks and grab that right away. re: No match for domain "BEACONHILLSEATTLE.COM". >>> Last update of whois database: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:05:48 UTC <<< |
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Seattle Geekly
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http://www.seattle-geekly.com Great site for Seattle area/northwest geeky news. Video games, comics, music, movies etc. They have a really good calender of events and conventions. |
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| To me "geeks" are hobos who get paid to bite heads off chickens at carnivals - not rich computer types. If I hear one more fucking thing about Star Wars or Star Trek I'm gonna hurl. This site does not qualify. | ||
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Truly a Heroic Feat
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Well done on getting this up and running! Very pleased to have someone keeping all the lists updated. Don't take the comments too hard, I'm sure it will all be sorted out with time. ;) Our blog (which will feature thought leaders from some of these other blogs) is located at http://bit.ly/1sB6aj - if anyone is curious to take a look, we had Emory Thomas of Puget Sound Business Journal sound off today. Take Care All, The EXCLAIM Team! |
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You are not being reasonable about beaconhill.seattle.wa.us
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"You need to go and register a nice domain name of your own if you want to make the list. Show that you are serious - this is not 1997." Wow. That is a bit rude of you. You will be happy to know that beaconhillblog.com also points at the Beacon Hill Blog. However, the editors have chosen to promote the beaconhill.seattle.wa.us domain, so that is the domain everyone links to, and so beaconhillblog.com doesn't show up on stats sites. There are legitimate, valid reasons for using a locality domain -- one reason is that it shows very clearly where the site is located. I don't think I will be taking this Top 75 list seriously, as you are excluding blogs with legitimate traffic. Just checking back over the last year, it's pretty clear that we are serious about the blog and it's not some random website. (Yes, I am the one of the BHB editors.) |
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| Okay, I'll add beaconhillblog.com to the list, but please don't take the list seriously. As we say on our main page: "The Belltown Dispatch is just a blog, so relax!." | ||
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Thanks -- though while it may just be a blog, a lot of people are reporting on this top 75 list as if it were gospel engraved in stone. And this does affect blogs like ours. (I think the Mercer Island one should be in too.) Incidentally, beaconhill.seattle.wa.us is in Quantcast. Their numbers are slightly lower than our internal stats but in the same ballpark. |
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I'm very disappointed in the language used by the administrator of site in regards to the Seattle Geekly website. Equating geeks with hobos? First, I'd like to point out some things about the Seattle Geekly podcast. 1. Both of the owners of this site are employed. 2. They actually purchased the website. They've been up since February with both a website, and a podcast that's available on iTunes. 3. They regularly produce content for Seattle. They've interviewed organizers from some of Seattle's biggest events(Penny Arcade Expo, Emerald City ComiCon), to local area authors and and retailers. 4. They regularly update their calendar on their website with "Seattle Area Events". Needless to say, I'm disappointed greatly with the comments directed towards Seattle Geekly by the administrator. I hope in the future, research is done on the site submitted before making comments "off the cuff". On a more positive note, great job with the list. Can't wait for next years stats. |
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| Geeks! We will geek you up on next year's geek list!-Admin | ||
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SableVerity.com
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| What about SableVerity.com? | |
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B-Town Blog not even listed?
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Surprised that The B-Town (Burien) Blog ( http://www.b-townblog.com) isn't even listed? Perhaps it's 'cuz we're way out here in Burien? We should be up there in the low 20s, as we average 40-50K per month in Uniques; our official #s are below: QUANTCAST: #100,487; 14.1K/mo. ( http://www.quantcast.com/b-townblog.com) WEBOUTLOOK: Traffic Rank #728,292; PageRank: 4; Backlinks: 9382; DAR: $6.53( http://websiteoutlook.com/www.b-townblog.com) ALEXA: 267,966 ( http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/b-townblog.com?p=tgraph&r=home) SITEMETER: http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s28btownblog&r=33 |
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