Hmmm. I ran one for my personal blog and only got $157,000. And that's with more than twice the number of hits as ITA. I wonder what it's measuring and how it comes up with that number. I've always found it odd that I get so many more hits than ITA, but nowhere near the number of links.

Ed, you seem fond of noting that you get twice the number of hits as ITA. But your blog is also three times as old, which means you're going to get (roughly) three times the number of Google and search engine hits. That's why looking to both links and hits together are sometimes a more accurate measure of "real" readership.

Josh-

Sorry, I don't have an ulterior motive, honestly. I'm genuinely baffled by it. With all the links from other blogs, you'd think the hits here would be higher. I honestly think that in terms of quality, this blog should get more hits than mine, if for no other reason than because we have several good writers here and not just one and we have different viewpoints that would each attract a different audience. Believe me, I'm not trying to brag on my own place; I really do think this blog should be more read than mine. I think the same thing about Positive Liberty, which has three other really excellent writers that all had blogs established. It makes no sense to me that they're not.

Well, again, I think it's important to separate search enging hits and regular readers. For instance if we posted daily here about anything involving the word "sex," I'm sure you'd see a surge in searh enging hits. I recall several years ago Paul would post something that simply read "Natalie Portman nude." You can probably guess that the readership spiked soon aftwerward.

Perhaps it is for that reason. I do get a fair amount of search engine hits, but not from people searching for things like porn. Generally, it's from searches like "judicial activism" or "culture wars" or "evolution". As a general rule, though, pages that have a lot of other pages linking to them, like this one, tend to be higher in the search engine sorting than those that don't have so many incoming links. So this blog should get a lot of search engine hits as well.

Anyway, I do apologize if you felt that I was gloating. I assure you I wasn't. My ego is large enough without basing it upon blog hits. I really do think this blog should be up in the 2-3000 hits a day range, based on the consistent quality of the writing from all of you, and I'd think that whether I contributed here or not.

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worth $0.00?

My old blog is trading just below $4000. No wonder I moved here. It can't just be the leather seats and wine cellar.