Guido Fawkes: Thieving Parasitical Journalists
Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 23:44 via Delicious/martinstabe
"Guido always tries to credit the source of a story with a link. It is not just honest and good manners, it pays dividends in traffic terms. Here is the difference in understanding between online writers and dead tree writers. Bloggers understand that if you increase the usefulness of your site with useful links, you get more traffic. Something that the dead tree press has only just realised..." Read More...
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1. Guido Fawkes | 24 September 2008 at 0829
Something that you emphasise in your story links. The culture of newspapers is to pretend that they are the source of all knowledge. Which is untrue and less useful to readers. When I eventually gave a full RSS feed (after figuring out how to put ads in the RSS) my traffic went up. When I started listing stories of interest elsewhere my traffic went up.
Incidentally the piss-taking thieving by the Standard of a picture is a liberty too far, a few bitter diarists have contacted me to give solidarity.
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