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The most popular 100 conservative political websites and blogs for 2007 are listed here. Read who made the list and who surprisingly didn't.

Note: Top 100 Liberal Political Websites is here. Plus, this list was updated August 5, 2007 to include some more sites that were overlooked mostly because they were sorted as uncategorizable personal blogs on alexa or were originally excluded because they were one-issue sites (abortion, guns, immigration).

Here is a ranking of the top 100 conservative political websites and blogs. Other than sifting and sorting through directories like alexa's , there’s no easy way to determine what are the most popular conservative websites. John Hawkins of rightwingnews has ranked all political websites in order of popularity in the past, but hasn’t put out an updated list since 2004. I have attempted to create an updated list of the conservative websites for 2007, using alexa’s directory and rankings. There are other sites like trafficranking.com which use different methodology to rank the popularity of websites, however, alexa’s system, which is based on the web surfing habits of those using its browser helper software remains the most popular. 

Conservative websites fall under various categories in the alexa directory, so I may not have found everyone. If you have been inadvertently left off, please email me so I can adjust the list, even if it means lengthening it to the top 125 or so. In some cases, it wasn’t easy to determine whether or not a site really belonged in this list. I am still open to changing some of the methodology, if you would like to dispute how I included or excluded sites I would like to hear from you. 

Blogs without their own domain name, such as blogs run off of blogspot.com, were not included, since with few exceptions, alexa does not separate them out. Some conservative leaning or more mainstream libertarian sites like the Cato Institute, Reason, and Radley Balko I thought should be included, whereas others that were more traditionally libertarian I left out (those included Neil Boortz’s site, ranked 35,416, samizdata, ranked 90,209, and the Libertarian Party site, ranked 116,978). I left out the Christian Science Monitor (ranked 12,583) because it is not reliably conservative, but I included U.S. News & World Report, since I believe it is still generally right leaning. 

I included think tanks and organizations like the legal American Center for Law and Justice, individual personalities like Michelle Malkin, and newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal. I may have left off some right of center regional newspapers, although I included the biggest ones. I included non-American sites, although there were few, and one German-language site I left off (think tank Konrad Adenhauer Foundation – ranked 176,951) 

I left off campaign sites since those sites come and go quickly. I left off sites like Politically Correct, which runs political cartoons (ranked 62,714), and conservative libraries like Online Library of Liberty (ranked 320,732). 

Now for the interesting findings. There were some big disappointments. The Republican National Committee barely made the list at 405,641. Scrappleface, which most of us remember as one of the early popular political satire sites, also barely made the list at 433,108. The following sites didn’t even make the list: 

Hugh Hewitt – 5,633,009

Federalist Society – 1,245,004

Christian Coalition – 1,002,811

American Conservative Union – 950,055

Independent Women’s Forum – 930,362

Ifeminists.com – 828,382

Intellectual Conservative is at the end (but we're #3 in the Political Philosophy category, right behind the Wobblies and the Marxists).

1. Drudge Report – 951
2. Fox News – 599
3. Wall Street Journal – 1,043
4. New York Post – 1,778
5. WorldNetDaily – 4,605
6. NewsMax – 5,334
7. Boston Herald – 6,684
8. Free Republic – 7,114
9. Town Hall – 7,915
10. U.S. News and World Report – 8,694
11. Jeff Rense Program – 10,492
12. National Review Online – 10,502
13. Politico – 11,359
14. Lew Rockwell – 13,174
15. Washington Times – 13,621
16. Rush Limbaugh – 14,117
17. Real Clear Politics – 17,027
18. The Conservative Voice – 17,670
19. The Post Chronicle – 19,203
20. Reason Online – 19,942
21. Little Green Footballs – 21,079
22. Michelle Malkin – 23,570
23. Instapundit – 25,661
24. Ludwig von Mises Institute – 28,169
25. Human Events – 28,937
26. Glenn Beck – 34,697
27. Liberty Post – 39,230
28. Christian Broadcasting Network – 39,728
29. Weekly Standard – 43,327
30. Powerlineblog – 41,288
31. Heritage Foundation – 48,044
32. FrontPageMag – 48,461
33. Red State – 49,599
34. Truth Laid Bear – 53,995
35. Free Market News – 54,314
36. Jewish World Review – 55,733
37. Lucianne – 56,585
38. Ann Coulter – 57,910
39. Cato Institute – 58,391
40. Volokh Conspiracy – 61,682
41. WizBang – 61,959
42. Paul Harvey – 61,992
43. KVI 570 Seattle – 63,201
44. Mark Larson – 64,304
45. News with Views – 66,003
46. Canada Free Press – 76,345
47. Vdare – 76,539
48. Captains Quarters Blog – 79,178
49. American Thinker – 81,917
50. Michael Savage – 82,673
51. Bill O’Reilly – 83,723
52. Sean Hannity – 87,305
53. RightWingNews – 106,285
54. American Enterprise Institute – 108,262
55. American Spectator – 118,709
56. Mens News Daily – 126,426
57. ALIPAC – 144,577
58. Laura Ingraham – 145,994
59. Mark Steyn – 156,255
60. Ilana Mercer – 162,520
61. Adam Smith Institute (U.K.) – 162,584
62. Radley Balko – The Agitator – 165,128
63. Snapped Shot – 166,275
64. American Conservative – 181,314
65. GOPUSA – 186,477
66. Acton Institute – 187,367
67. Renew America – 190,345
68. Christopher Hitchens – 194,067
69. Life News – 195,958
70. Hoover Institution – 200,268
71. Political Crossfire – 200,941
72. American Patrol – 209,285
73. Commentary Magazine – 211,054
74. Liberty Forum – 211,445
75. An Englishman’s Castle (U.K.) – 228,967
76. World and I (Washington Times) – 236,083
77. Accuracy in Media – 232,120
78. Clayton Cramer – 246,226
79. American Daily – 251,092
80. Media Research Center – 253,620
81. Etherzone – 257,691
82. Save our State – 262,298
83. Heartland Institute – 257,924
84. Café Hayek – 265,888
85. John Birch Society – 273,956
86. Concerned Women for America – 277,015
87. Independent Institute – 281,097
88. National Right to Life – 283,202
89. Michael Medved – 284,832
90. National Center for Policy Analysis – 290,051
91. PoliPundit – 297,794
92. Keep and Bear Arms – 298,624
93. National Rifle Association – 299,870
94. La Shawn Barber’s Corner – 300,533
95. View from the Right – 301,593
96. Becker-Posner Blog – 305,780
97. Fraser Institute (Canadian) – 307,688
98. World Magazine – 307,978
99. Tom G. Palmer – 310,087
100. Gun Owners of America – 314,895
101. Talk Show America – 318,999
102. RealityCheck – 325,321
     
103. Family Research Council – 332,263
104. National Center for Public Policy Research – 334,388
105. Insight Magazine – 334,429
106. American Center for Law & Justice – 341,008
107. Club for Growth – 341,118
108. Tom Rants – 346,982
109. Tammy Bruce – 353,769
110. Sierra Times – 359,115
111. John Locke Foundation – 359,971
     
112. Enter Stage Right – 361,598
113. MichNews – 361,642
114. KFYI 550 Phoenix – 361,813
115. Judicial Watch – 367,970
116. Hendersonville Post – 370,431
117. Eagle Forum – 381,771
118. Dick Morris – 390,177
119. Sweetness and Light – 390,593
120. Discovery Institute – 398,031
121. Conservative Underground – 406,018
122. Hudson Institute – 419,364
123. Reason Foundation – 426,451
124. Young America’s Foundation – 450,076
125. Republican National Committee – 405,641
126. The American Mind – 431,606
127. Scrappleface – 433,108
128. Claremont Institute – 456,349
129. Intellectual Conservative – 458,064

For a more recently updated version of this list, check out Mark Henderson's Hendersonville Post