In response to me asking how, exactly, I should gain experience if he would bar me from attending, Paul Helinski says:
So, apparently there is no value in going to the media only events. If it offends him so much that bloggers get media credentials, then perhaps he should stop going to the media events. He also refers to media as “we” or “us” so clearly he thinks he’s attending SHOT in a media capacity, not in a vendor capacity.
Ah. Now I see. You want to be more specialer than us icky bloggers. Note he says “internet readership” and he’s been saying all along he’s an internet journalist. If he were complaining as a vendor or buyer, that would be an entirely different kind of stupid.
Since he likes to harp on the fact that the commercial site GunsAmerica.com has high rankings from arbitrary sites like Compete.com (which, until today, I’d never heard of) and Alexa, let’s see how his internet journalist site–or what the rest of us would call a “blog”
–fares. My arbitrary metric?
Google Reader. Here are the subscriber numbers for this site, which has been open for about 5 months:
Here are the numbers for JayG’s site, open since March of 2007:
And here are the numbers for the GunsAmerica blog, “after 15 years of hard work and dedication”:
So please, tell me why you should be there with a media pass but me and JayG shouldn’t.
Comments
13 responses to “Paul Helinski of GunsAmerica.com Doubles (Trebles?) Down”
I think he’s conflating his visits to his retail section of his website with visits to his blog section. They are entirely different.
I’m a statistic in two of those three… guess which ones…
They’re just a jumped up classified listing. Sigforum, Glocktalk, arfcom, and the High Road should be seeing an increase in sales done on their listings.
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Here’s mine
Feed URL: http://injennifershead.com/?feed=rss2
Posts per week: 8.9
Subscribers: 256
Last updated: 10:36 PM (2 hours ago)
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I had to go see this site he was talking about, as I’d never heard of it either. I’m not a gun-blogger (yet), just a guy who lurks on everyone else’s gun blog, and enjoys a fair bit of shooting from time to time.
Holy crap that site is ugly! It’s quite possibly the worst commercial site I’ve ever seen, at least in recent memory. It looks like something a high school computer science class whipped up for a week-long final project.
Someone’s been reading too many SEO books. There are over 1,000 clickable links, JUST OFF THE MAIN PAGE. And I like how the crap JUST KEEPS GOING.
Image Maps? No one does image maps anymore.
And the “Barush Hashem”? Nice touch, not sure why you’re wasting screen space for it though.
And I don’t know what UFC has to do with selling guns – unless there some new blood-sport I’ve not heard about? It’s possible, since I’ve never heard of this site. Seems more like this guy likes celebrating violence more than selling guns. He sure has the ‘roidy ‘tude.
Glad this is getting attention of gun bloggers. I didn’t recall the site and just did a bookmark search. Sure enough, I bookmarked GunsAmerica somewhere in the past. Whoops, now it is gone.
How does one get Google Reader to spit out those statistics?
Click on a feed.
Go to Feed Settings.
“View details and statistics.”
I am clearly unqualified to operate this device. What you said doesn’t help.
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