Click-through here to ‘Top Prepper Sites’
Todd over at prepperwebsite.com has been a great content aggregator of preparedness related articles from around the web. He has also linked plenty of our articles here on Modern Survival Blog, and as a result he has sent lots of traffic our way…
Some time ago he implemented a website which ranks ‘Top Prepper Sites’ from around the web. Unlike other such websites which attempt to rank others by using traffic metrics from Google, Alexa, etc., Todd’s site simply counts votes from the readers themselves. In other words, the readers decide…
While we typically rank in the Top 10 via traffic metrics, etc., I’ve decided to enter into Todd’s ranking system to see how we do!
Since most other popular ‘prepper’ sites entered earlier last year, we are way behind having just entered the race. But given our great interaction and reader participation here, I think we can catch up over time.
So I’m shamelessly asking for your vote (I feel like a politician!) to get Modern Survival Blog closer to the top of the page! It may take awhile, but I know we can do it… 😉
Click-through here to ‘Top Prepper Sites’
(upon entering their website through the link above, your ‘vote’ is automatically cast for Modern Survival Blog)
About:
Top Prepper Websites is a an online voting site that allows members of the Preparedness Community to vote for their favorite website. So voting/ranking is not based on any other numbers other than the number of votes a website sends to TPW. The site also serves to bring attention to lesser known preparedness sites that might not have the same following as some of the higher ranked sites, but that have great content as well.
How are Websites Ranked? – A website is ranked according to the “Votes In” that it receives. Every website, after registering with TPW, gets a special link that identifies them. They then post the link on their website. When someone “clicks” on that link, it takes them to the “Voting Gateway.” This gateway is there to ensure that webmasters can’t send traffic using a bot. To finalize a vote, a person simply clicks on “Click Here to Enter”. Once inside TPW, voters can look around and explore other preparedness websites.
“Votes Out” are the number of times someone that entered TPW has clicked to visit that site. This number doesn’t count towards ranking.
Okay, with that said, I just wanted to put out this post to give us a boost 😉
So what is your platform, Ken? Are you gonna build the wall?
…free stuff for everyone!
@ T for Texas
I just lost a $50 bet with Ken… Thanks
HAHAHAHAHA
NRP
So to vote do we have to enter your blog through their site? I didn’t see anyplace to check a block or something like that.
@me, Simply by clicking through the link within the article above – will send you to their website – and upon entering their website it will automatically count as a vote for Modern Survival Blog.
I went to it yesterday before this was posted here on the reply tag and couldn’t find a box, so I kept trying to reload and go back to original reply tag to enter the site over and over again thinking the check box wasn’t loading. Well, you got multiple votes from me!
What is it that politicians say? “Vote, and vote often!”
In reality though, I believe your vote only counted once. Apparently the site knows if you’re trying to vote over and over again 😉
“Vote EARLY, Vote Often” ~Chicago native
Presumably, if you clear your cookies, or use private browsing, you can effectively vote “Chicago style” over and over ad nauseam….
oops, didn’t read the smallprint!
Have read your site on and off for a while.
What drew me to keep on coming back to this site were your thought provoking articles. They go beyond this how you put BOG/GHB, food storage, the average stories one can find anywhere on the web.
Thank you for pulling us out of our rabbit holes, we need someone tugging on our ears every so often to remind us life can jump up and bite us on the back side when we are not paying attention.
@antique collector, Thanks for sharing what brings you back here…
and there is at least one site that isn’t even active anymore and still listed.
Indeed some of them ‘come and go’. I’m proud to say that Modern Survival Blog has been online since January 2010 with near daily posts (no wonder my fingers are sore 😉 )
I clicked – thanks for the great blog & all your work, Ken. Lots of good info & interesting discussions!
Thanks, So Cal Gal! I plan to continue as best I can to produce a variety of preparedness topics into the future…
Ok, I voted
Ok, I voted. Actually twice, though I know you said it would only count once.
Best site. Great info. Your doing good work Mr. Ken. It is all laid out very easy to navigate. 🙂
Texasgirl, Thank you! I like to ‘keep it simple’ 😉
I love this site! It’s the first one I check daily. The articles are great, thanks Ken and the comments give you other ideas to think on that you might not have thought about. Keep up the good work, Ken!
Thanks. And you’re right on that many of the comments inspire new topics!
Al Capone’s famous quote – “Vote Early and Vote Often.”
NRP
Voted….
kinda wondering about some of those sites with so many votes.
guess those folks must have a lot of relatives voting for them……………………………………………………………………………………….
Plus, he’s had that website ‘live’ for quite awhile. Maybe a year? So some sites have accumulated a-lot over time. I do wonder about the top-2 which seem disproportionately high. But whatever…
I know that we have many thousands of regulars, plus all those who hit here new each day – although only a small percentage of you actually comment on the site…
Hopefully we can get into the top-20 if you guys (and gals) keep on voting…
Ken
I hadn’t realized it was an on going sort of thing (you said for a yr now)..
Maybe you can put a separate link, at top, side of your site, to this post, and that link, so that folks who are coming here now and then will spot it.
if you don’t, this post will sort of get “lost”….
I see now, as I glance up, you have a
“vote for Modern Survival Blog” at the top of this comment box..
Put that all over, so to speak..etc..
😉
It’s simple to accumulate thousands of votes if you have a program to change your IP every time you go to the site. Or even a program that puts in the votes for you. But that smacks of cheating…
Exactly correct. But we’re on the ‘up and up’ here 😉
It will be interesting to see where we end up after awhile.
@Ken
Glad to vote for your site. Not only do you have the best site, but you also have the best readers and commenters. Also, with NRP hanging around, you have the best rants!
Thanks Grits. We do indeed have the best commenters compared to many other sites. And yes, I’m glad to have NRP around here to add his own unique ‘insight’ 😉
Ken, your site is the best and I learn much from everyone here, I am happy about the commenters too. At least I know I am not alone in preparing and have much to learn. You and everyone here make my brains work :)…
PS, thanks for not kicking my rearend this week…to my fellow blogers, sorry guys that I got irked by a highly educated person…..
You’ve got my vote! Love your site. It’s clean, simple, and thought provoking.
The commenters are great, and it’s a breeze to navigate.
Your articles are clear and concise and I love your Sunday photos too. 🙂
Your calm, steady, mature nature comes through in your writing and I appreciate it.
It’s a very educational site.
It’s not busy, flashy and dizzying like some other sites.
God bless and thanks for your work.
just a note to other readers
it occurs to me,
some of you may click through to that voting page, just to see / peruse some other sites.
(I did)
I clicked on one, and then realised…
golly gee, that ended in a vote for that site..
so, from now on, if I want to look at the other sites
I will copy/past the name
and look it up on google…
just say’n
But the votes out is also a good option for the owners of the sites. They can see about how many people are following the link back to their site (i.e., new viewers) so they know how well this works as a form of advertising.
Yesterday MSB only had something like 20 votes, so 90 is great progress! And ranked 64 now.
Up to 275 votes as of this moment… not bad for a day! (thanks all)
500 should bring us to the top-50 region, and we’ll go up from there 😉
Like I mentioned, the other sites have been registered for a longgggg time, and it’s encouraging as to our progress in a day!
I guess I was looking at the “votes out” number, which is now at 100 since I clicked on the link to come back! 🙂
Just voted. Better late than never. Love this site. Great articles and everyone is always willing to help with comments.
Been reading a long time here. Love it! Thank you Ken, thank you all! I do have a question (I did indeed vote for MSB). What are Votes In/Votes Out?
@ Tacticool
Regarding the “Votes In/Votes Out” The “Votes in” is the actually number of votes the site receives; the program records the voting IP addy and prevents the voter from flooding the system with more than one vote for that Site. The Out Votes is the number of times the Site is visited from the same person/IP Addy, such as if I want back and checked the votes, it sees my IP Addy and adds a count to the “out vote”.
Or at least that’s what I was told.
NRP
@NRP, and others,
The In Vote is a count of those who have clicked through my link, and counts as a ranking ‘vote’. The higher the number, the higher up we go on the list.
The Out Vote is a count of those who had been browsing on their site and had clicked on Modern Survival Blog within their list to check us out… This number does not affect the ranking. But it is an indicator of traffic sent over to us at MSB.
@ Ken
Thanks for the correction
NRP
…not even two days and we’re ‘this close’ to the Top-50!
Keep it coming… 😉
1st goal (top-50)
2nd goal (top-30)
3rd goal (top-20)
4th goal (?)
I’m honestly blown away that MSB is sitting only at #33 right now. I thought for sure it would be top 10.
I’ve been to a lot of prepping sites and I much prefer MSB. The articles are more varied and the comments/community is kind and respectful. The articles here are also level-headed and there is no machismo or fear-mongering.
MSB is #1 in my book.
Anonymous
Exactly…
all I can say, is if I get in front of some other computer (say in a shop/friend’s house/shop/etc), I will of course be eager to check on how MSB is doing..Might help bump it up a bit…
Give it a few more minutes. Ken just put it up a couple of days ago, the other sites have been there for months.
Made top 30!
The difference between top 30 and top 15 will take a while, I think. Top 20 will only take another 200 votes, top 15 will take 1500. So I think it’ll have to be a steady climb from here rather than a sprint.
You’re running a triathlon! 🙂
…although I’m thrilled at how quickly we leaped into the Top-30 😉
The rest will be slower as others eventually click-through our links. Next goal, Top-20…
@ Ken
Not bad ya old fart, not bad at all…… 🙂 🙂
NRP
You’re into the top 25, Ken! Only 20 more votes to get to 24, and 100 to get to 21.