New Media Bytes | Online journalism, web production and promotion

ad

Entries for April, 2008

Free and Easy Tool Helps Your News Website Take Control of its RSS Feeds

Thanks for visiting New Media Bytes. If you like what you see, subscribe to my RSS feed.
Image by Pandemia
Web producers spend kabillions of hours optimizing and honing content for presentation on their news websites. But what about all those stories and photos that get sent directly to users via RSS?
What happens to your [...]

Comments (5)

The Secret to Increasing Traffic from Facebook without Building Applications

Image by said&done
Want to get some traffic out of Facebook but don’t want to spend moolah on developing an application?
You’re in luck. Facebook provides a number of tools that can help you promote your content and cash in on social network referrals. And the best thing is - Anyone Can Do It!
So what’s [...]

Comments (4)

6 minimal-effort ways to jumpstart your newspaper staff’s excitement about the web

Image by Payton Chung
While newspapers are working on getting their staff members interested in online, the fact remains that many print writers and photographers aren’t all that interested in paying attention to the ups and downs of their newspapers’ websites.
From the online perspective, here’s a few strategies I’ve seen work in getting newspaper [...]

Comments (4)

Quick Google trick keeps you alert of links to your content

Image by CarbonNYC
A shortfall of some web analytics programs at news sites is they don’t always report the metrics producers need - a key measure being referrers .
Why you should pay attention to referrers (people who link to your site and send traffic)?
Knowing referrers gives a news site producer insight into who is [...]

Comments (1)