The Wardman Wire

Over the next couple of weeks I’m doing an experiment to see if it possible to “Game” the Alexa website ranking service. Alexa is a service which aims to rank websites by traffic and popularity.

This is today’s roundup. I need a couple of people to click on each article to visit the websites, and that should do it. I’ll be visiting each article once myself – Alexa only counts one per day anyway.

This exercise has interest from Sam Coutts of Conservative Home, and Jag Singh of Labour Home – so let’s see how we go.

Articles for Today – Follow the Links

Conservative Homesuggest that the Tory Chairmanship is at least a five horse race

In the June survey of ConservativeHome readers we asked for your opinion on who should be the next Conservative Party Chairman. We asked you to choose between the five likeliest candidates – based on the possibly false assumption that David Cameron will not move William Hague or George Osborne.

Labour Home report on their lead in the polls

Labour have overtaken the Conservatives in two of the Saturday newspaper polls as the ‘Brown bounce’ begins.

Lib Dem Voicehave Stephen Tall’s top of the blogs roundup

Welcome to the 19th of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (24th – 30th June), together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed.

The Labour Party welcomes the smoking ban in England

Labour’s Secretary of State for Health Alan Johnson has hailed the smoking ban as a big step toward a healthier population. From July 1, England goes smokefree for the first time thanks to Labour.

The Conservatives comment on the Middle East situation

Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague has called on the Government to step up Britain’s role in the Middle East, in a renewed effort to promote peace and reconciliation, and reduce tension in the world’s most volatile region.

The Liberal Democrats

The Government has spent at least £2.6 million reorganising and rebranding government departments since 1997, figures released today by the Liberal Democrats show.

The Government has spent at least £2.6 million reorganising and rebranding government departments since 1997, figures released today by the Liberal Democrats show.

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