{"id":7560,"date":"2018-09-05T13:48:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T13:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7560"},"modified":"2018-09-05T13:50:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T13:50:41","slug":"alex-jones-said-bans-would-strengthen-him-he-was-wrong-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/alex-jones-said-bans-would-strengthen-him-he-was-wrong-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Alex Jones Said Bans Would Strengthen Him&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1960,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.nytimes.com\\\/2018\\\/09\\\/04\\\/technology\\\/alex-jones-infowars-bans-traffic.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250924003942\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.nytimes.com\\\/2018\\\/09\\\/04\\\/technology\\\/alex-jones-infowars-bans-traffic.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-03 22:07:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 07:33:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 07:33:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/04\/technology\/alex-jones-infowars-bans-traffic.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Jones Said Bans Would Strengthen Him. He Was Wrong. &#8211; The New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>In the three weeks before the Aug. 6 bans, Infowars had a daily average of nearly 1.4 million visits to its website and views of videos posted by its main YouTube and Facebook pages, according to a New York Times analysis of data from the web data firms Tubular Labs and SimilarWeb. In the three weeks afterward, its audience fell by roughly half, to about 715,000 site visits and video views, according to the analysis.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For starters, data-analytics firms aren\u2019t always accurate. Only the server logs of Jones\u2019 web server will show the real figures but the numbers are so massive that it\u2019s clear he did suffer a drop.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Web-traffic comes from 3 places outside of Google Search &amp; Direct Visits<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Social<\/li>\n<li>RSS<\/li>\n<li>Newsletters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If Google drops Jones\u2019 page rank and social media sites remove his properties, he\u2019s relying on direct traffic and that of newsletter people because let\u2019s face it, RSS to everyone but techies is dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Back to the point of my linking to this, it goes to show that in 2018, if you don\u2019t have a social media presence, your site is basically non-existent. Half of my blog\u2019s readers come from Google to the 25 or so posts that are how to or informative and a search query brings them direct to that post. 90 seconds later they leave and never come back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The other half of you are RSS\/Direct and I thank you all for remembering me :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Jones Said Bans Would Strengthen Him. He Was Wrong. &#8211; The New York Times: In the three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-09-05T13:48:36Z","apple_news_api_id":"72a3b653-0366-45d9-b04e-faf62a7a50b2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-09-05T13:50:50Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AcqO2UwNmRdmwTvr2KnpQsg","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1XW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4240,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/09\/05\/linked-community-services\/","url_meta":{"origin":7560,"position":0},"title":"Linked: Community Services","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"September 5, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"via Waffle & Brent Simmons: Eventually, communities moved from BBSes and newsgroups to forums, email, chats and instant messaging. 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