http://www.newsome.org/2006/03/bloglogic-and-litmus-test-for-link/ Kent Newsome on technology, music and life Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.newsome.org/2006/03/bloglogic-and-litmus-test-for-link/comment-page-1/#comment-4811 Ed Kohler Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:22:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=2768#comment-4811 There are certainly non-conversational blogs on there. PostSecrect comes to mind, but there are many others where the bloggers isn't intenting to engage the audience. Different formats. Different goals. If links and traffic are the goal of the site, engaging other bloggers and writing about content that will interest other people enough to warrant linking to are sound tactics, but quality content is the real driving force behind the traffic and links generated. There are certainly non-conversational blogs on there. PostSecrect comes to mind, but there are many others where the bloggers isn’t intenting to engage the audience. Different formats. Different goals. If links and traffic are the goal of the site, engaging other bloggers and writing about content that will interest other people enough to warrant linking to are sound tactics, but quality content is the real driving force behind the traffic and links generated.

]]> http://www.newsome.org/2006/03/bloglogic-and-litmus-test-for-link/comment-page-1/#comment-4812 Kent Sun, 05 Mar 2006 17:51:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=2768#comment-4812 That's a fair point about the Amazon links. I was thinking about traditional advertising, but should have mentioned that I have been an Amazon affiliate for years.While my Amazon revenue (without even netting out revenue from what I buy) is teens of dollars a quarter, I should have mentioned that. That’s a fair point about the Amazon links. I was thinking about traditional advertising, but should have mentioned that I have been an Amazon affiliate for years.While my Amazon revenue (without even netting out revenue from what I buy) is teens of dollars a quarter, I should have mentioned that.

]]> http://www.newsome.org/2006/03/bloglogic-and-litmus-test-for-link/comment-page-1/#comment-4813 TD Sun, 05 Mar 2006 17:43:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=2768#comment-4813 You wrote: "as well as a lot of us who aren't trying to monetize our blog"So what are the Amazon affiliate links then? Charity for somebody else's 'ranch'? You wrote: “as well as a lot of us who aren’t trying to monetize our blog”So what are the Amazon affiliate links then? Charity for somebody else’s ‘ranch’?

]]> http://www.newsome.org/2006/03/bloglogic-and-litmus-test-for-link/comment-page-1/#comment-4814 Seth Finkelstein Sun, 05 Mar 2006 03:25:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=2768#comment-4814 "Conversation" is an <B>extremely</B> bad metaphor, because it invokes ideas of intimacy and equality, which do not apply here. "Punditry" is more accurate, as in "We're all pundits" (and some are widely-read, and some have essentially no audience).What you leave out in your post is the cliques, the grudges, the meanness, the bullying, etc. Sure it's like big family dinner - if your family is <EM>The Sopranos</EM>. “Conversation” is an extremely bad metaphor, because it invokes ideas of intimacy and equality, which do not apply here. “Punditry” is more accurate, as in “We’re all pundits” (and some are widely-read, and some have essentially no audience).What you leave out in your post is the cliques, the grudges, the meanness, the bullying, etc. Sure it’s like big family dinner – if your family is The Sopranos.

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