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By: Last Week Interesting Reads

Last Week Interesting Reads — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:19:00 +0000

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By: Oryx Orange

Oryx Orange — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:21:17 +0000

It is true that most of the truly compelling success stories, not just in the blogosphere but in other media as well, are about great content being found and propelled by forces other than the creator. I think that what makes many favour endorsement over excellence is that this is an inherently impatient medium. A blog is easy to build, the reasoning goes, and therefore it should be easy to get an audience. The ones with the good content, of course, are no easier to build than they are to disseminate.

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:15:24 +0000

@Pete – Yes and that is the right way round :)

@John – Erm, the same way things usually get there, it was stumbled :)

By: Are You Putting Traffic Before Content?

Are You Putting Traffic Before Content? — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:24:55 +0000

[...] Blog Herald has a great post about putting traffic before content. Focusing on traffic before developing rich, valuable, compelling content is like gold-plating a [...]

By: John Smith

John Smith — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:23:25 +0000

How did this get into Stumble Upon?

By: Pete White

Pete White — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:22:34 +0000

Decent content normally brings in traffic. If its really good you normally get onto digg or stumble upon. I got an article dugg back in April that still gets a few thousand hits/month.