Summer Reading
News and notes of interest to members of our Publisher Network
There are still about three weeks to go until June 21, but in my book, Memorial Day signaled the beginning of summer. And if like me you’re in the midst of reading a 1,000+-page paperback, you may need those extra days just to finish it before the leaves start changing in the fall.
To provide a much quicker bite of what’s going on in the online publishing world, we’ve compiled a handful of recent news items below. You should be able to digest these while the charcoal is getting hot during your next cookout. Enjoy…
Pretty as a (legal) picture
Looking for a photo to add to one of your site’s pages? Sure, you can probably find what you seek somewhere on the Web, but can you reuse it for commercial purposes? A new Creative Commons license filter in Yahoo! Image Search makes it easy to find a pic that’s compelling and won’t get you in trouble with the authorities.
Link-building like a pro
Eric Enge at Search Engine Watch offers an interesting and informative article on planning and executing a link-building campaign. Among his advice: Publish great content (or tools) on your site, and avoid publishing “me too” type of content. Says Enge: “Plan on publishing stuff that establishes your organization as a leader in its market.”
Turns out they will pay to read
While many newspapers struggle to keep customers paying for a print version while offering the same product online for free, two smaller dailies have found that what might seem counter-intuitive actually seems to work. According to this article by AP writer Michael Liedtke, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and the Idaho Falls Post-Register are now restricting their online content to paying subscribers—with surprising results. Says the publisher of the Post-Register: “To just give [our content] all away on a Web site is completely and blindly idiotic.”
Fee-based services to supplement ad revenue?
In a related article, The New York Times examines how websites are looking beyond hosting ads to keep afloat in these challenging economic times. Some of the solutions include: a restaurant reservation site that gets a dollar for every diner seated at its clients’ tables, and an online golf game site that charges small amounts for premium virtual putters and greens fees.
— Jeff Hecox
Photo courtesy Norby on Flickr.
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August 21st, 2009 at 10:12 pm
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