I sometimes take a look at the Amazon Alexa website rankings for scientology sites vs this blog and Tony Ortega’s. You can see one example here from earlier:
This topic came up in a recent interview, (in fact, the podcast episode for next week) so I checked in again.
I was somewhat surprised to see scientology.org ranking steadily climbing. It makes no sense. Nothing in the world of scientology would indicate any increased interest in the subject….
Obviously things had been left adrift, as 90 days ago the site was ranked at 173,376 so it has improved by 61,000 places in the last 90 days. Though it is still not back to where they had it in 2020 when the post above was made — and then the US rank was 45,752 so interest from the US has drastically declined since then.
But, what is accounting for this recent improvement?
Alexa shows the remarkable fact that more than 50% of the traffic to the scientology. org website is from TANZANIA!!! Less than 35% is from the US.
Tanzania has no org. There is a small mission in Moshi, which is neither the major city in the country (Dar es Salaam) nor the capital (Dodoma).
Tanzania is also one of the world’s poorest economies.
Not a hotbed for scientology….
Apparently, someone was ordered to “get the stats up” on the rankings of scientology.org. Dave probably grew irate at being perpetually ranked below my blog and Tony Ortega’s. So, they paid for some click farms that apparently operate in or through Tanzania.
I wonder who they think this impresses?
And scientology. org is STILL lower than my blog and Tony Ortega’s — and when you compare the figure for the US, it’s not even close:
Just for interest sake, back in 2020, scientology.tv ranked 369,707, on a steady slide from 236,875 90 days previously — apparently they are not spending money on clickfarms to attract people to scientology.tv, because today it is all the way down to 521,697 — meaning there are more than half a million websites that get more traffic.
Obviously, people are still NOT curious.
What a house of cards they live in! Fake everything! 🥴
It’s a Final Count down …
Age of Paranoia ( confusion & chaos) to be followed by Age of Extinction ( Bye bye)
Again,it’s what written on the wall…I am just a messenger.
Of course it’s all fake. The show started with a fictional “science” and hasn’t gotten any better. With all the lies that they’ve needed to support the original house of cards, it’s just gotten worse, which is as would be expected. It WILL collapse in on itself.
The only thing those still in can do is run NOW! to save themselves, their families, and friends.
The organization —such as it is — is doomed.
Other than the ones already pointed out, there is another problem with the Tanzania scenario: Relatively speaking, the cult expends much more resources on self-promotion in the US (and a few other places where the money is). It’s safe to say that Tanzania does NOT get the benefit of “Curious” campaigns, library donations, or Superbowl ads. They don’t have the most important driver of business of all, the ideal org. And it’s safe to say that 4’13” has never set foot there to wow Tanzanians with papal authority, charm and charisma. To say nothing of his legendary benevolence shown by NOT physically assaulting the locals.
The inevitable conclusion: All the efforts and resources expended, all the “tech”, all the stories of wins, ideal orgs, IAS status upgrades, OT committees, WTH campaigns, front groups. WISE infiltrations, VM benevolence, fundraising events and campaigns in places like the US have NOT only been ineffective. They have actually been counter-productive, producing far less results than a country of 61 million where only 0.1% claim to subscribe to a variety of non-traditional faiths.
It’s either that all US efforts have uniformly backfired or that the SPs are winning on all fronts. Either scenario doesn’t bode well for the “tech” or the future of the “religion”–at least, outside of Tanzania. It also leads one to the inevitable conclusion that cob must have been lying for years when presenting his expansion shore stories to the global public. This cries out for a thorough investigation! KR anyone?
Any KR written would be disappeared as the only person with the authority to deal with it would be the cob, hisself, and you’re only confirming that his long-term activities have been working SPLENDIDLY, crashing scns stats completely.😉
Scientology is so fake. Everything about it is fake. Buying clicks doesn’t surprise me. They fake all their PR. No one is truly interested or cares about this cult except the last few who can’t break the mental hold it has on them.
It’s so great being out and watching it all fall apart.
Scientology TV has been a huge flop. When I was in it was of course promoted as the big thing to save Scientology and clear the planet! Lol.
ScnTV isn’t even worth watching to laugh at. That would give them a “stat”, giving Davey-Boy a ‘reason’ to do even more of the same useless things. All that does is bleed off more of scn’s energy, accelerating its slide into obscurity. I’d suggest that those who could watch the dreck, but I don’t want to cause more people to get depressed from scn’s sad PR ego-project.
So the Really Find Out Survey (RFO) created from the Be, Do, Have concept gave up a short term Hot Button.
Or the Surveyors were lazy and just made up the responses themselves when the real world looked at them strange, saying “NO!”.
I think that Scientology uses gimmicks to attract visitors to its sites. I’ve noticed a flurry of pro-Scientology articles appearing in small market publications that show up on news feeds. I suspect that these are publications in more rural areas that rely on press releases for much of their content. This may prompt some inadvertent traffic to Scientology’s website. There are other tactics, i.e. what they are doing with your and Leah’s podcasts.
Curious about what? With what’s going on in the world what time one has to waste trying to figure out why he should be curious about scn?
A fixed webcam towards a forest is a thousand times more interesting.
Every now and then a little bird peeps out.
How Scientology has fallen if they can’t even afford a high-quality Russian or Bulgarian click farm. Instead, they have to offshore the work to a boiler room in Tanzania which is so low-budget that it can’t even afford $5 per month for a VPN connection to make it look like all those clicks are coming from the US.
Don’t give them any ideas.
You only get such ideas ,when go on internet
….buttttttt then web browsing has its own repercussions, rather getting one you loose two ( spinoff…. rather them one step ahead you go two step backwards)
Penny pinching pound foolish.
Click farming impresses no one but DM.
Actually that’s not entirely true. Believe it or not I’m still happy to tell complete strangers that I was once in scn (OT7 even). Their attention really picks up and they ARE curious. However, it’s much in the same league of interest as if I’d said I was a card carrying member of the KKK or had just officially qualified as a wizard in black magick at Hogwarts. Oh people are curious alright as to how a seemingly rational person gets wrapped up in that shit. But I’m not entirely sure that’s positive for the cult of Crowley.
very accurate. I get the same.
A few times in the past I’ve mentioned my scn participation to some people and explained it to the extent that they could agree that I wasn’t a gullible fool for participating. I mentioned that the lower levels dealt with things like negative attitudes, emotions, problems, regrets, communication and so on. Since the space opera was hidden back then and I didn’t do the OT levels I didn’t need to answer the obvious question as to whether I believed in Xenu.
However,
A few months ago a man and woman who were neighbors and moved out of state returned to visit her parents and brother who also live nearby. Just before they were getting ready to leave she called myself and my other half to see if we would like to say goodbye and see their baby son who was born out of state which we did.
They were packed up and ready to go so we only spent a few minutes with them. For some stupid reason I happened to mention that I had once been in scn. She said, “Oh – I’ve heard about that!”
Wait! Wait! I need to explain myself!
They were in a hurry so I didn’t have time. Lesson learned – Never mention you were in scn unless you have time to explain yourself – Lol
Now I remember why I mentioned scn. In the usual course of small talk with someone you haven’t seen in awhile the usual questions are “How are You?” and “What have you been doing?” which gave rise to me volunteering that participate on scn blogs and forums. haha
Also – Curious as if you once were a KKK member or a wizard. Laughter
The woman who had been my nextdoor neighbor for many years might have returned to her new home wondering if she had lived nextdoor to a cultist for all those years. She probably never read “The Sociopath Next Door” so I escaped that label.
Always good to read not very many are buying IT’s bullshit anymore.