Comments on: Why Newspapers Rank Better than Your Crappy Blog http://www.chris-hooley.com/why-newspapers-rank-better-than-your-crappy-blog/ With My Mind on My Money and My Money on My Mind Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:04:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Hooley http://www.chris-hooley.com/why-newspapers-rank-better-than-your-crappy-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-305 Chris Hooley Sat, 30 Dec 2006 05:47:37 +0000 http://www.chris-hooley.com/2006/12/28/why-newspapers-rank-better-than-your-crappy-blog/#comment-305 Holy crap Andrew, you are one smart man lol Holy crap Andrew, you are one smart man lol

]]> By: andrew wee http://www.chris-hooley.com/why-newspapers-rank-better-than-your-crappy-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-304 andrew wee Sat, 30 Dec 2006 05:41:11 +0000 http://www.chris-hooley.com/2006/12/28/why-newspapers-rank-better-than-your-crappy-blog/#comment-304 Chris, employing some machiavellian techniques in blogging can give you an edge. if a newspaper is translating print content to online, a blogger would typically have a 24 hr headstart. i'd think a blogger's biggest competition would be the techcrunchs and cnets and boing boing's of the online world. if you're blogging once a day, sure you'd be pummeled. but if you're blogging as fastigious as ProBlogger Darren Rowse, you'd stomp a number of the major print and online media (even as a one man show). rather than do a old school comparison, a cutting edge blogger will need to leverage on web technologies and bust out of the editiorial constraints that old school news media operate under to claim their stake in the online world. Chris,
employing some machiavellian techniques in blogging can give you an edge.

if a newspaper is translating print content to online, a blogger would typically have a 24 hr headstart.

i’d think a blogger’s biggest competition would be the techcrunchs and cnets and boing boing’s of the online world.

if you’re blogging once a day, sure you’d be pummeled.

but if you’re blogging as fastigious as ProBlogger Darren Rowse, you’d stomp a number of the major print and online media (even as a one man show).

rather than do a old school comparison, a cutting edge blogger will need to leverage on web technologies and bust out of the editiorial constraints that old school news media operate under to claim their stake in the online world.

]]> By: Chris Hooley http://www.chris-hooley.com/why-newspapers-rank-better-than-your-crappy-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-302 Chris Hooley Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:11:33 +0000 http://www.chris-hooley.com/2006/12/28/why-newspapers-rank-better-than-your-crappy-blog/#comment-302 Doh! I should have done my research before I used that paper as an example! Doh! I should have done my research before I used that paper as an example!

]]> By: markus941 http://www.chris-hooley.com/why-newspapers-rank-better-than-your-crappy-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-301 markus941 Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:07:58 +0000 http://www.chris-hooley.com/2006/12/28/why-newspapers-rank-better-than-your-crappy-blog/#comment-301 One of the biggest reasons NYT properties don't rank in niche areas is because their CMS systems are ancient and build like total crap. The sites have tons of uncrawlable (or at least very difficult) URL's and duplicate content hell. It's like the systems were purposely built to avoid indexing attempts. But hey, I'm not complaining ;) One of the biggest reasons NYT properties don’t rank in niche areas is because their CMS systems are ancient and build like total crap. The sites have tons of uncrawlable (or at least very difficult) URL’s and duplicate content hell. It’s like the systems were purposely built to avoid indexing attempts.

But hey, I’m not complaining ;)

]]> By: Pete Wailes http://www.chris-hooley.com/why-newspapers-rank-better-than-your-crappy-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-299 Pete Wailes Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:47:11 +0000 http://www.chris-hooley.com/2006/12/28/why-newspapers-rank-better-than-your-crappy-blog/#comment-299 As with a lot of things in SEO, I think a lot of it also comes down to how niche you are. Someone like NYT or the like can shotgun broad areas, but they're not going to rank well for knitting news. If you deal in a niche area, you should really be being more authoritative than newspapers, if only because you're doing stuff on that area daily. Ranking better from there, is a simple case of good SEO. But with many blogs I'd say SEO is over-rated anyway. I've always found word of mouth and viral promotions to be far more effective. As with a lot of things in SEO, I think a lot of it also comes down to how niche you are. Someone like NYT or the like can shotgun broad areas, but they’re not going to rank well for knitting news. If you deal in a niche area, you should really be being more authoritative than newspapers, if only because you’re doing stuff on that area daily.

Ranking better from there, is a simple case of good SEO. But with many blogs I’d say SEO is over-rated anyway. I’ve always found word of mouth and viral promotions to be far more effective.

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