Do you have a political blog? Mine is Fort Liberty. I'm looking for guest posters and for places to guest post, but please feel free to post your blogs to this thread even if they are Communist/Islamist/EcoNazi tripe. Also, tips on promoting political blogs would be awesome.
I'm assuming you already have 10,000 backlinks from FreeRepublic? Obviously, the place you want to promote is directly related to the type of audiences you're writing for. DU and FR are both pretty friendly to self-promoters ... but only so long as they toe the party line. Digg and Reddit both break to the left and libertarian in a hardcore way, but there's a conservative subreddit that has a few hundred subscribers I think. underground politics was my first attempt at a website and I actually worked on building it up for a year before it sat inactive for another year. Then I completely ignored it (and the critical Joomla updates) so someone got in and messed it up until I was ready to just delete and start over completely. You might be able to make some money off it if you're selling books or WSJ subscriptions, but there's not a whole lot of money in political publishing unless you're going to basically validate politicians, promote their ideas, and pander to the people who already support them. Of course, if you've got some content on corruption or scandal you wanna trade for links, I'll take it regardless of the party. No "Obama is a terrist-luving communist!" but instead "The president's healthcare boondoggle will bankrupt..." would be right on topic.
I have a neglected, unvisited, personal blog with politics too I usually post there "the-best-of" what I post here... http://www.moshedubman.com
Blogging About the Politics - such a wonderful subject. I used to blog a lot on the politics but have since swerved more towards medical and travel niches. I still do the politics when it's worth blogging about, but not as often as I used to.
Half political and half Christianity based: http://www.theworldsprophecy.com Promotion mainly: http://www.facebook.com/pages/No-New-World-Order/197766376012?ref=nf This Facebook group and all postsautomatically appear on http://www.twitter.com/nopyramids
Both my political sites are in my signature- one is a blog where I discuss politics, econ, etc. and the other a forum.
I have a popular website I've been running for over ten years. It's format looks like a blog, although it predates blogs. Although it's all custom written in ASP, my error logs show daily attempts to find PHP login pages and before I did error handling I was getting over 50 attempts a day to find PHP login pages (and 200 daily SQL injection attempts from China!). If you are going to start a political blog, it's a sure guess that you are going to tick off some people. Regardless of if you are using WordPress or Joomla, I suggest that you code some custom error checking. In ASP you can quickly and easily test and ban a user's IP with just five lines of code (PHP needs to store the IP in a file or database).