The Daily Bell, a gold bug site, has now officially sunk into inefficient obscurity, just as I had foreseen, with a 3-month Alexa.com rating below 100,000 as of July 15, 2012.
For comparison, thecomingdepression.blogspot.com was able to achieve a ranking similar to the Daily Bell’s simply by re-posting two to three articles a day from other sites.
My site, fauxcapitalist.com, is ranked lower than theirs — currently in the 700,000 range — but my site is a part-time, unpaid operation by myself, compared to the Daily Bell with nearly half a dozen or more “elves,” and their secret and not-so-secret financing.
The Daily Bell regularly takes exception with mainstream memes, yet they are guilty of the fallacy of shooting the messenger in criticizing Alexa.com once their readership numbers started tanking to embarrassingly low numbers given how much time and money is pumped into the operation.
Their performance is particularly pathetic when you consider their business deals with Lew Rockwell and Alex Jones in regularly featuring their content.
For more on the Daily Bell, see my articles here.
[...] their Alexa.com ranking tanked, the gold bug site the Daily Bell shot the messenger in calling Alexa’s ranking system an “elite [...]
[...] their Alexa.com ranking tanked, the gold bug site the Daily Bell shot the messenger in calling Alexa’s ranking system an “elite [...]
this article seems to be untrue… and not very constructive, very negative in deed. sad, makes you look like a hater site, very poor and really sad.
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/thedailybell.com#
They’re above 100,000 now that they restored comments. It was true on the date of publication, on July 17, 2012.
Show me how they didn’t shoot the messenger, and show me the proof of their alleged > 10 million daily page hits.
now who’s shooting the messenger…
Who, and how? Alexa was the messenger in this case, so who else is shooting them?
[...] the other hand, there are some sites that put out fluff and get far higher ratings, or, like the pro-Austrian economics Daily Bell, which has a team of nearly half a dozen “elves,” … what thecomingdepression.blogspot.com did, which got that ranking just by featuring two to three [...]
The Daily Bell is a heck of a lot more interesting than this site, that’s for sure.
On what basis? My site continues to grow, while theirs has been sinking for months.