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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
New Media Bytes is written by Shawn Smith, an online news producer and internet marketing student. I write about online journalism, producing, promotion, blogging and new media. Read more about New Media Bytes. For more on me, see my LinkedIn profile.
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