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Why Examiner.com’s traffic is growing through the roof
Much to my chagrin, I’ve been noticing Examiner.com versions of stories we’re covering show up prominently in Google search results while our original journalism on knoxnews or govolsxtra is buried. It happening a lot and not just to the sites I manage. Examiner.com, a collection of sites that Time magazine cattily describes as “neither advancing…
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Forget the “Curly Theory” and you’ll get pie in your face, knucklehead
Here is how Eric Ward defines his “Curly Theory” of link building: No matter how narrow the vertical, somebody somewhere cares about it, writes about it, links to it, and you’d darn sure better recognize and respect those editorial passions before you go asking for a link to something that may look like a match,…
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Internet pundit finds being open with FCC trying
In prepared testimony, University of Tennessee law professor and blogger Glenn Reynolds argues that an open Internet has allowed for the creation of new journalism models that harken to the pamphleteers of the Founding Fathers’ age. Reynolds’ remarks were prepared for testimony he gave Tuesday to an FCC panel gathering opinions on its Open Internet…