By Mindy McAdams
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How many people look at an animated infographic on a news Web site?
“I would say 10,000 is a good number for us,” said Keith Claxton, an infographics journalist at the Chicago Tribune.
That would be a great number of pageviews for, say, a post on my little blog. But for a news site on the scale [...]
When I hear about someone who’s supposedly an expert in some area, I type that person’s name into Google. (Don’t you?) If I don’t see a likely link on the first page of search results, I add a keyword to the search and re-run it.
Here’s a simple example. The newly appointed dean of our journalism [...]
Somehow I missed this excellent post about SEO for online headlines, by Patrick Beeson, online for two weeks already! Read it and learn how to write headlines that will bring a bigger audience to your stories.
Lucky for me, one of my forward-thinking colleagues here at the university asked if I knew any good resources about [...]
On Saturday (the day of the week when traffic to this blog is usually at its lowest), I saw a surprising surge in visits. Turned out a particular post had been linked on Techmeme, and it being a slow day, the link sat on the Techmeme front all day.
When I went into my FeedBurner stats, [...]
So The Charleston Gazette, a small newspaper in West Virginia, won an IRE award for its investigative series about mine safety.
After years of covering the coal industry, [reporter Ken Ward, Jr.] offers readers an unparalleled portrait of the dangers inside mines and the breakdowns of regulation that made 2006 a deadly year. Using documents and [...]
Danny Sanchez explains it all to us, based on various sources and Google’s own patent application for “ranking blog documents.” (My mind reels when I think about applying for a patent on algorithms!)
Danny’s post is perfect because it neatly summarizes the how and why, then just points us to the compete original sources.
And if [...]
Reading up on the 2006 Pulitzers, like any good journalist can’t help doing, I got curious about one of The Washington Post’s four Prize-winners, a three-part series about attempts to bring democracy to Yemen. So I go to The Post and type “yemen” into the search box, and what do I get? Nothing.
That is, I [...]
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