COTO Report Tops 100,000 Visitors

By Rady Ananda

Whoa, daddy – do we rock, or what?

Here are some highlights since our inception on July 21, 2009:

Jul-09	Aug-09	Sep-09	Oct-09	Nov-09	Dec-09	Jan-10
1,139	8,935	13,337	16,382	24,608	15,096	15,116

November 2009 was our biggest month. Our busiest day was on November 5^th, when 1,320 unique visitors hit the site. The top article was House Resolution Designates Venezuela a State Sponsor of Terrorism. It drew 377 readers that day, and now stands at 1,107 hits.

Back then, Stumble was our most productive means of generating interest in this site. But, due to their absurd referral policy, they kicked me out for promoting COTO too often. Hey, you don’t get something for nothing, Stumble. If you want me telling your readers about interesting articles (and they did find COTO interesting – we still get Stumble hits), then you gotta let me promote an all-volunteer blogsite!

A few of us have been using Buzz Flash lately, and that seems to be working out. About 15% of the articles I promote make it to the front page. I’ve also made some nice connections over there. Some folks promote us on FaceBook, and those referrals have been increasing lately.

Claudia (Laudyms) and Michael Collins get a special star for uploading so many excellent articles by other writers from around the web. I’ve even stopped other folks from doing that because the three of us cover that task nicely. Mike Zimmer (Progressive Mind) and Laurel (Oz) also gets a special star for sending so many spot on articles my way. Mike also promotes many, many COTO articles for us. And thank goodness the best of COTO Crew comes over here and comments, keeping the site interesting.

But what really gets my juices flowing is the original work we produce here. I love that so many of you writers and artists put time into this site. It wouldn’t be what it is without you, and your excellent original work. Thank you – each of you: Bob, John, Megan, Betsy, Richard, Peter, Oz, Tom, John, Mr. M and Bawb… and of course, Michael and Claudia.

Of the most popular articles, COTO originals garner one-third of all hits – which is pretty damned good for non-professionals (with a couple proud-to-know-you exceptions). 

Nearly a fourth of all 800 pieces posted here got at least 100 unique visitors. Drumroll, please… Here are the popularity rankings for the top 200 articles. (WordPress doesn’t provide author name, so you’ll just have to recognize your title):

1	Ten Swine Flu Lies Told by the Mainstrea	2,828
2	Netanyahu behind Obama birth rumors: Rep	2,455
3	Obama health care plan summary: Ludicrou	2,027
4	Why I categorically refuse the vaccine a	1,646
5	John Pilger: Empire, Obama and America’s	1,523
6	Pfizer slapped with $2.3 billion fine fo	1,472
7	Full-body scanners may damage human DNA	1,463
8	When Is It OK to Use Technology to Evade	1,443
9	Obliterating the Bill of Rights: How the	1,342
10	Georgia Supreme Court Rules that Unaudit	1,288
11	Why Millions of Americans Don’t Need a S	1,263
12	Obama says WHO flu vaccine is NOT mandat	1,254
13	Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder	1,243
14	Merck Goes after Whistleblowers, Chills	1,218
15	The Twin Brother of Annihilation	1,138
16	On Conspiracy Theories	1,133
17	House Resolution Designates Venezuela a	1,107
18	H.R. 45: The ‘Legal’ Foundation for Gun	1,065
19	CIA Warns Obama Not to Investigate War C	972
20	Urgent alert: Seasonal flu shot raises r	966
21	Presidential Humor	956
22	Dems want to end Health Insurance Co’s m	956
23	Foot in the Door: Capitalism and Health	947
24	Read your Bible, Support BuzzFlash	937
25	FBI General Counsel: Constitution and Bi	937
26	Open letter to the Jewish community abou	912
27	Child Witches and Gay, Transgender Youth	856
28	CDC and Swine Flu Deception: CBS News Re	743
29	About	729
30	NY Lies About H1N1 Vaccine Safety, then	704
31	San Diego County deploys sonic weapon, u	678
32	Judges Report: France to use swine flu t	649
33	Che Guevara, until Victory Always	633
34	Gum Wall	605
35	20 reasons why vitamin D is better than	578
36	Emerging from the crisis of capitalism	531
37	Did mining and oil drilling trigger the	520
38	Honduras: Military Coup Engineered by Tw	515
39	People! Not Corporations! How ’bout thes	499
40	Fake gold bars! What’s next?	466
41	Activist’s Message at USF: End Needless	434
42	3 Babies Die after Pfizer’s Prevenar Vac	423
43	Diseased African Monkeys Used to Make Sw	415
44	2008 RFK Jr Speech on CDC Cover-up of Va	415
45	Officials Say Don’t Blame the Swine Flu	397
46	In Drinking Water, What’s Legal Can Be P	390
47	Bell Tolling for the Swine Flu: Video In	387
48	The Scapegoat’s Apology	375
49	Victory in the Amazon	355
50	Truthers Grow in Number Each Year	351
51	Washington State Nurses Sue to Stop Mand	347
52	Gary Null Speaks against the H1N1 Vaccin	344
53	Films	334
54	Seeing the Pattern Before Copenhagen: Sc	311
55	Aussie Vaccine Trials: Does Government-I	310
56	The Great Teeter Totter	302
57	What to Do If You Are Forced to Take Swi	300
58	Death by Privatization: For-profit priso	300
59	European Parliament to Investigate WHO a	287
60	Katrina: Deadly Choices at Memorial	286
61	Flu vaccines revealed as the greatest qu	283
62	The Torture Memos: The Case Against the	273
63	Why did President Obama…fail so much i	266
64	Chronicle Herald ‘H1N1 No Conspiracy’ Ge	264
65	From Smart Grid to Big Brother?	257
66	Haiti Airport Closed Saturday for Hillar	248
67	Breast and colon cancer risk ‘virtually	245
68	John Pilger wins 2009 Sydney Peace Prize	244
69	Friday Jam: Imma Zoe by Black Dada	242
70	Militarizing Latin America	241
71	Mossad implicated in Honduran coup	229
72	Pentagon’s Role in Global Catastrophe: A	226
73	Caution: Satire in video	225
74	Government Plans to Turn on Americans: G	223
75	Virginia teen athlete in wheel chair aft	221
76	Free Screenings Tonight of “Capitalism”	219
77	Zelaya follower tortured and assassinate	219
78	Sodomized to Protect Our Freedoms	213
79	Extinctions, Over-Population and the Pro	211
80	Rape and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce	209
81	MoPhobe ALERT: Protest Hatemonger Buju B	207
82	Spycraft, Guts and Talent Expose The Cov	204
83	Three Approved GMOs Linked to Organ Dama	202
84	Mission of Ignorance	202
85	My Country of Horror and Possibility	195
86	H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic: Manipulating th	195
87	The G-20 Announces a “New World Order”	194
88	Expert Pediatrician Exposes Vaccine Myth	191
89	The Devil’s Excrement: Can oil-rich coun	191
90	CSL H1N1 vaccine gets Australia nod of a	186
91	NASA says ‘first attempt’ at creating ch	186
92	WANTED: The Gang of Six	183
93	Natural Insecticide: 6-inch banana spide	180
94	Monsanto Withdraws High Lysine GM Maize	179
95	Latin Americans Ditch US ‘War on Drugs’	178
96	Refusing vaccination labels you a ‘crimi	177
97	Depopulation by Inoculation	176
98	UN thugs in Haiti	175
99	New York Declares State of Emergency ove	174
100	Worldwide Slavery	174
101	Foreign Contributions and the Supreme’s	173
102	The Who of the Flu	171
103	‘Hall of Shame’ Calls Out Bogus Internet	170
104	Common Sense Health Care: Individualism	168
105	Unsatisfactory Outcome in Activist Trial	168
106	The Other Face of Pakistan	167
107	Glenn Beck; Race Relationships or Health	167
108	Call It Ecocide	167
109	Fuck SCOTUS and Corporate Rule: Let’s Am	166
110	Are You One of Obama’s ‘Lone Wolf’ Suspe	165
111	Former CDC head now leads Merck vaccine	164
112	Afghanistan: The Explanations Don’t Stac	161
113	Interpol Ran a Bioterrorism Exercise in	159
114	The 9/11 Commission Rejects Own Report a	159
115	Legalize Pot… Now What?	158
116	Honduras: News Blackout As Second Coup A	157
117	Health Insurance Industry Wins: All Amer	153
118	Leaked UN report claims swine flu could	152
119	Colombia strengthens stage for intensifi	150
120	Organic Bytes: Help OCA realize that swi	147
121	Ten things you’re not supposed to know a	147
122	Chrylser scraps 3 electric cars promised	146
123	Just HOW Wanky Are TED Lectures?	146
124	The End of Capital and the Future of Wor	145
125	Georgia Petition to Refuse the H1N1 Vacc	143
126	Doctors speak out about H1N1 Vaccine Dan	142
127	Stop Begging Obama and Get Mad	142
128	1 in 10 GSK Vaccines Have Nasty Side Eff	141
129	Universal Health Care, Slavery, and Know	139
130	Humankind shall never fly	139
131	The Graphic Cost of Gagging Dissent	138
132	Countdown: Israel-Iran Arms Race	137
133	Do Seed Companies Control GM Crop Resear	136
134	November Vigil with Indigo Girls, Rebel	135
135	JC vs Capitalism: Foreclosures, Unemploy	135
136	Pentagon Pressured to Investigate Electr	135
137	It’s Business as Usual Again for Wall St	134
138	Some thoughts on beliefs, progressives,	133
139	Can You See Who Is Behind 9/11?	132
140	Why have 60 million quit the Chinese Com	132
141	Pharmaceutical Genocide? Corporate Swine	132
142	Fair Use	129
143	As Congress Considers State Secrets Refo	129
144	Serious Citizenship	128
145	Latin America: Social Movements in Times	127
146	Joe Klein’s Fatuous Fantasy	124
147	Fight the New World Order with Global No	123
148	FDA kidnaps cancer cure herbalist from E	122
149	On Mammography — More Agreement Than Dis	122
150	Cheney Should Be Required to Testify und	121
151	Let’s Help: Olbermann Wants to Push Glen	121
152	Clinton meets with V-Day activists in DR	120
153	Bank whistleblower gets 40 months prison	119
154	H1N1 vaccines too little, too late; most	119
155	The Source of Corporate Power	119
156	Obama to open 7 new military bases in Co	118
157	Making A Killing: The Untold Story of Ps	115
158	New national power hub to connect renewa	115
159	Woodstock Revisited	115
160	The Best Place in the World to Buy Marij	113
161	Caring and Killing	113
162	Video: American Police Force Exposed as	113
163	How about the Patriotic Retirement Plan?	112
164	Find out why you and your family SHOULD	112
165	From Nov. 2009 Foreign Contributions and	112
166	Eight years ago today, DOD announces $2.	112
167	Over half UK doctors, third of nurses, t	112
168	Rep. Jan Schakowsky and Jeremy Scahill o	111
169	Remote Viewing Documentary: Bizarre Gove	111
170	Hell Comes Home	110
171	Failure by Design – the ‘Public’ Option	109
172	Kseniya Simonova – Sand Animation (Украї	108
173	Operation ‘Can You Hear Us Now’?	107
174	NSA To Build $1.5 Billion Cybersecurity	106
175	Don’t show ID in New York State!	105
176	Just Say ‘NO’ Mass Non-Compliance as a M	104
177	Military funding precludes Medicare for	103
178	Winners Lose	103
179	Conspiracy Nut	101
180	EPA approves complex GE crop behind clos	100
181	Chavez tells Venezuela’s military to pre	100
182	Gaza, and now Goldstone, expose rift bet	100
183	Jane and the Buzz Saw	99
184	Secret copyright treaty leaks. It’s bad.	98
185	Global Survey: 74% Critical of Neolibera	97
186	NAIS Moves to the World Stage thru S 510	97
187	Canada Health whistleblower calls for va	96
188	Orwell 2009: USA Prez Wins Nobel Peace P	96
189	CIA Torturers Running Scared	94
190	Going Rove	94
191	GM Crop Failure Petition 2009	93
192	Edmonds Testimony Under Oath: Progressiv	93
193	Abandoning Public Option for Insurance R	92
194	Survey of Primary Care Physicians in 11	91
195	Can Our Shameful Prisons Be Reformed?	90
196	Cutting Wall Street Out: Let States Fina	89
197	The US as Failed State	89
198	Trojan Hoax	89
199	Fast-tracked Swine Flu Vaccine under Fir	89
200	Dred Scott Redux: Obama and the Supremes	89