Countdown of the most popular articles on libcom.org you nerds have been reading this year.
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Most popular articles posted in 2011
10. Half a million take to the streets of London against cuts - Steven Johns
9. 1619-1741: Slavery and slave rebellion in the US -Howard Zinn
8. Spain (and beyond): 15 may demonstrations updates and discussion
7. An open letter to Socialist Worker on autonomism - Steven Johns
6. Egypt riots updates and discussion
5. A letter to UK Uncutters from the "violent minority" - Solidarity Federation
4. Tottenham fights back against police brutality
3. My body, my rules: a case for domestic violence survivors becoming workplace organisers - Liberté Locke
2. North London Solfed's response to the London riots - Solidarity Federation
1. Norwegian spree killer had EDL links - Django
Most popular overall
10. How the Allied multinationals supplied Nazi Germany throughout World War II
9. Death in June - a Nazi band?
8. Prison survival guide
7. Dealing with bullying at work guide
6. Loukanikos, the Greek anarchist dog photo gallery
5. North London Solfed's response to the London riots
4. The coming insurrection - The Invisible Committee
3. The third wave, 1967: an account - Ron Jones
2. Norwegian spree killer had EDL links
1. The black sea revolt - Tico Jossifort
Comments
Really surprising that some
Really surprising that some of these made it in and it lets you know just how widely libcom is read outside of the main posters in the forums. I mean the Black Sea revolt article is obviously incredibly interesting and academic and historical, but how the hell did Death in June and Prison Survival make it into the overall top ten?!
Chilli Sauce wrote: but how
Chilli Sauce
https://www.google.com/search?q=death+in+june
https://www.google.com/search?q=surviving+in+prison
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make it into the overall top ten?![/quote]
They're in the top 5 google results for those searches.
libcom's SEO is pretty
libcom's SEO is pretty amazing.
Would be interesting to know how many times these articles have been read.
Of the overall ones, the most
Of the overall ones, the most popular article was read 38,000 times this year, number 10 was read about 9000 times this year.
The SEO in general is very good, but for some reason for a small number of articles it is almost non-existent and I don't really get why
SEO?
SEO?
Chilli Sauce
Chilli Sauce
Search Engine Optimization
Steven. wrote: Of the overall
Steven.
Google will downrate a page if it believes its duplicate content and there is a more authoritative and authentic site that hosted the content first. It helps keep original content protected and with a higher page rank. This could be the reason.
Would be interesting to see what articles don't appear
That's interesting, thanks
That's interesting, thanks for that. And that probably explains the ones I have looked for. Google doing that would be helpful to us as well as a lot of sites end up duplicating our content as much as we do other sites.
One example was I googled Collective Action Notes this morning, and our duplication of their old website didn't show up on the front page, but the red Emma's duplicate which was done first did. So this would probably be as a result of what you are talking about here. I can't think of any other examples of the top of my head but I do think they were things which were also hosted elsewhere.
The Black Sea Revolt - 38,000
The Black Sea Revolt - 38,000 reads? Surprising. Obviously time to dig out some more obscure historical articles.
So what's the reason behind
So what's the reason behind that article being the top one? I understand the other 9, but why the Black Sea article?
I have no idea! It had nearly
I have no idea! It had nearly 12,000 reads last year as well, so it's not just that it got linked to once by some extremely popular website or anything like that. Just history buffs I guess.
Red, if you have any other obscure historical stuff we would love to have it. A lot of the ones you have posted are consistently popular