Free Post internal linking Internal linking: free traffic From one of Kath Viner’s first memos as editor-in-chief of The Guardian, as leaked to Guido: One of the easiest things everyone can do is link to other Guardian stories when writing a Guardian story. Internal linking: easy and free traffic. It’s
Free Post aggregation The role of blogs in the age of media overload Fascinating read in the wake of Andrew Sullivan’s closure of The Dish, in which Ira Stoll explores the present and future of blogging: And while the ability to produce opinion quickly can be abused, blogs provide the kind of connection and curation that
Free Post aggregation What curation says about you Last week, the student journalists on the MA courses at City University heard from Paul Bradshaw about curation in the journalist sense. Since then, I’ve been working in the online “labs” with them on the idea. This post from Euan Semple neatly sums
Free Post linking Do you publish press releases? You need to know this… Do you publish press releases on a section of your site? If so – you need to nofollow those links: Throughout the video, John Mueller equated press releases to advertisements. It was specifically asked if all links in press releases need to be nofollowed or
Free Post blogs The existential dilemma of paywalls Are you familiar with the expression “tl;dr”? Classic “internet speak” for “too long; didn’t read”. It’s often used in a mocking, trolling sense. Well, now there’s a new variation on it: bp;dr “behind paywall; didn’t read” In the
Free Post Google You don't own your PageRank, so you can't sell it My, my. It’s been an interesting few days for web publishers, hasn’t it? Interflora’s Search Death First of all, Google wiped Interflora from the search rankings: Searching for the terms [Flowers], [florist], [flower delivery], [flowers online] and hundreds of other related
Free Post aggregation The link between photography and curation Natalie Lloyd: Seeing through another’s eyes is one of the perennial wonders of photography. Between the frames of an image, we are invited to consider a constructed reality offered by the photographer; what they chose to include, exclude and deem worthy of record
Free Post blogging On guest blogging and Google Matt Cutts weighs in: So, the basic message is “if you’re going to do this write/accept, good, rich original content, don’t just churn out shoddy content to multiple sources”. Put some genuine effort in – get the reward. This is a simple
Free Post attribution Linking to paywalled content I had a brief discussion with Jon Slattery over the weekend about why his “quotes of the week” posts don’t link to their sources. His response: The reason I didn’t link was because I wasn’t sure what to do with quotes
Free Post Johann Hari News websites - a bit like the web, but with fewer links Martin Belam on journalists’ reaction to Johann Hari being “forced” to link: Only people in an industry that has habitually avoided linking out to the rest of the web could possibly see adding links and footnotes as a cruel and unusual punishment. It baffles
Free Post ethics Journalists: Link To Win People have, on occasion, described TechCrunch (and ex-TechCrunch) writers are “bratty” in their writing style. MG Siegler does a pretty good job of proving the point in his complaints last week about the lack of credit he got from the Wall Street Journal: Earlier
Free Post attribution Essential reading: Gruber on attribution Essential reading for journalists this morning: John Gruber on the subtleties of online attribution: Not even including a link to the source of a story is dishonest. My problem with Fried’s “an Apple enthusiast site” attribution is more nuanced. That attribution, including a
Free Post journalist Linking and Opinions A couple of blog posts that have been hanging around in tabs for a few days now, and which deserve some linkage: Kristine Lowe posted a thoughtful look at how the rise of social media is reshaping our [expectations of what journalism looks like]
Free Post admin What's in a name? Peter Demain of Dirty Garnet on the name of this blog: > *I personally despise the name as it brings back memories of humdrum minutes in my youth spent watching some flat-capped florid faced farmer train a sheepdog to be a sheepdog in a boringly
Free Post advertising Afternoon Coffee Reading - 9th March 2010 Let’s start with something that’s as much a public information message for the blogosphere as a link: [Why Blog and Comment Spam isn’t Going Away](http://www.yelvington.com/content/why-blog-and-comment-spam-isnt-going-away)Onwards to linkorama:- [News has become a social experience]