Before the two-year-old echo chamber of Jeff Jarvis’ mantra “do what you do best and link to the rest,” and beside the concept of curation and aggregation as journalism, web experts outside of the news industry learned a long time ago that sending people away from your improves your search engine rankings and drives traffic [...]
If you get an email from Twitter every time someone starts following you, congratulation! You’ve probably already joined campaign “twitter20080331162631.” Last week, Twitter changed their email notifications to include a Twitterer’s avatar and number of friends, followers and updates. But another change wasn’t immediately visible to the naked eye. Each link is now tracked by [...]
Ben Parr created a nice guide to linking, entitled “Top 20 Ways to Share a Great Blog Post.” It is intended to help share any great blog post, but I fear that journalists, bloggers and marketers might misuse his advice to share their own blog posts. Don’t! Here is why: Social media: Yes, share your posts on social platforms, [...]
