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[_] Charlie Brooker: SEO from a journo's angle

Tim Beadle tim.beadle at gmail.com
Mon Jul 21 12:09:55 BST 2008

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Tim Wintle <timwintle at gmail.com> wrote:
> They don't need to ... The newspapers mainly make money through CPM
> ads (as they always did with print) - so they just need to have a high
> number of visitors, and so many advertisers are still just excited to
> see their ads on the big newspapers' websites that they don't really
> check the ROI for their ads - sure that will change over the next few
> years, but for now newspapers will make more cash by just getting
> pageviews...

And that's why people like John C. Dvorak still have a career.

Tim
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