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Founded in 2002, AugustaFreePress.com offers original news and sport content with no subscription required or paywall. Our team includes a mix of award-winning journalists, authors, photographers and broadcasters who are good at digging up facts and telling interesting stories.

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• Overview of AugustaFreePress.com
• Multimedia by the numbers
• Traffic to site
• Domain Authority and Page Authority
• Top search terms

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Augusta Free Press accepts:

• display advertising including cube ads and leaderboard ads. Rates vary based on length of run: one month to one year.
• site takeover ads for one day or one week
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• brand collaborations on social media

We also offer partners the opportunity to share guest content on our site. This is perfect for product launches, brand promotions, business updates or to share professional expertise.

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AugustaFreePress.com overview

• Founded on July 2, 2002
• Founded and owned by Chris Graham and Crystal Graham
• No paywall or subscription required to access content
• Based in Virginia, USA/Eastern time zone
• MOZ Domain Authority: 64 (considered excellent with high-quality backlinks, strong link profile, competitive standing, market leader)
• MOZ Spam Score: 1 percent
• Inbound links: 6.4M

Google Analytics data

• 4.6M active users (Jan. 1, 2025-April 16, 2026)
• 9.5M page views (Jan. 1, 2025-April 16, 2026)
• 12.7M total users (data dates back to 9/27/17)
• 25M page views (data dates back to 9/27/17)

Top readership cities in Virginia: Waynesboro, Virginia Beach, Roanoke, Ashburn, Charlottesville, Richmond, Staunton, Harrisonburg, Norfolk, Lynchburg, Fredericksburg, Chesapeake, Newport News, Arlington, Winchester, Williamsburg, Hampton, Danville, Reston, Christiansburg, Blacksburg, Salem, Lexington.

Top readership areas outside of Virginia: Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Los Angeles, Raleigh, Dallas, Boston, Nashville, Houston, Miami

Interests of our readers

• News and politics
• Sports and fitness
• Media and entertainment
• Banking and finance
• Travel

Users by gender

• Male: 61.9 percent
• Female: 38.1 percent

Users by age group

• 45-54: 19.7 percent
• 55-64: 18.6 percent
• 35-44: 18.3 percent
• 25-34: 16.1 percent
• 18-24: 15.2 percent
• 65+: 12.1 percent

Multimedia

• Facebook: 96K followers; 15.8M views to date in 2026 (updated 4/14/26)
• Constant Contact newsletter: 4.5K subscribers
• YouTube: 1.4M lifetime views; 2.4K subscribers (updated 4/14/26)
• Podbean: 130K downloads; 19K listeners (updated 4/14/26)
• TikTok (new – launched 12/11/25): 1K followers; 293K lifetime video views (updated 4/14/26)
• Bluesky (new): 1.5K followers (updated 4/14/26)
• Newsbreak (new): 1.4K followers (updated 4/14/26)

Domain Authority and Page Authority

Regional legacy and independent media comparison – digital and print:

• Augusta Free Press: 64 DA, 57 PA
• News Leader: 62 DA, 56 PA
• VirginiaSports.com: 60 DA, 54 PA
• Virginia Mercury: 59 DA, 54 PA
• Virginia Sportswar (The Sabre): 56 DA, 47 PA
• Charlottesville Tomorrow: 54 DA, 50 PA
• Cardinal News: 50 DA, 50 PA
• News Virginian: 46 DA, 49 PA
• Harrisonburg Citizen: 34 DA, 36 PA

Top search terms on Google

Top search terms on AugustaFreePress.com for sports: 

• UVA basketball
• UVA football
• UVA baseball
• AEW
• VCU basketball
• Virginia Tech football
• NASCAR
• Tony Elliott
• Baltimore Orioles
• JMU football
• Duke basketball
• ACC Tournament
• UVA athletics
• Tony Bennett
• Carla Williams
• Chris Jericho
• Virginia Tech basketball
• Washington Nationals

Top search terms on AugustaFreePress.com for news:

• Weather
• Winter storm
• Waynesboro Virginia news
• Trump news
• Donald Trump
• Mary Baldwin University
• Jim Ryan UVA
• Virginia news
• Bucee’s Virginia

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