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The Transition to ME Media: How Can Media Companies Make It Work?
First off, I have a confession to make . . . I’m not a news junkie. Yes, I work for one of the largest news organizations in the United States but . . . news isn’t my passion (though clearly search engine optimization is my passion). The challenge of figuring out how to optimize hundreds [...]
The Problems of Expired Content
The day started off like all others, I woke up late, rubbed my eyes, rolled over in bed and opened up my laptop.
What I found was a bit disturbing though, it appears that Chicago Tribune has caused some customer service issues due to expired content. How? Well to answer that question, we have [...]
Google Indexing of Pages Without Inlinks
I believe I can prove that Google is indexing pages that have no inbound links. Thus indexing pages NOT via a typical site crawl. While I can’t prove what they are doing to discover links outside of a typical site crawl, I can prove that they are at least doing it.
Review this query:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Aorigin-www.baltimoresun.com&pws=0
And as of [...]
Media Analysis Piece
I’m getting some friends and co-workers of mine telling me that the http://www.brentdavidpayne.com/bleet/images/Top-News-Sites-Stats.pdf PDF I created about the different newspaper.coms and how they are doing year over year is getting passed around quite a bit out there. I can’t tell because I don’t have analytics tracking on a PDF page. I guess that is [...]
Multiple Personalities Online
I’m constantly torn between having one personality online or having several. ‘Back in the day’, which is until 2005 when the wheels on my life can flying out from under me, I had about 30 profiles on line. I kept a spreadsheet of the personalities. I assigned them children, types of cars they [...]