Thank you Alex for that input I really do appreciate it. You are very right. I do not click on links that say click here to read full post. I will try and do a better job with these in the future.
Scott Rumery On Jan 26, 2014, at 6:32 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > I don’t think anyone here is trying to put down the work you guys have done, > and yes, website traffic is the goal of most blogs and similar services. > However, this: > > Check out this app, number 6 on our Top Ten Apps list: [url] > > says nothing except that you only had time to type up a sentence and then > paste the link. This: > > Check out Sendero GPS, number 6 on our Top Ten Apps! With Sendero GPS, you > can plan routes, explore distant locations, discover nearby points of > interest, figure out where you are, and so much more! Check out our review: > [url] > > makes me really want to know more, because that sounds like a great app and I > want to know what else you have to say about it. > > To be very clear: I have no problem whatsoever with you guys posting these > app picks here, and I even welcome it as it lets newer list members in on > some possibly useful tools for them to go try. However, when is the last time > you clicked a link because someone basically said “click this link”? I never > do, and I’m sure most people don’t, because I have absolutely no idea what > the link goes to and if it is worth it. Giving us just a one-sentence summary > of the app, and the app’s name, provides that missing information and will, > it seems to me, make people more likely to click through to the website. > Maybe I’m off base here, but those are my opinions. Again, I’m more than fine > with you guys posting content like this, and would suggest doing it more than > once a year, but you may want to look at how you are trying to draw people in. > On Jan 26, 2014, at 5:47 PM, Scott Rumery <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello Christopher, >> >> As the Senior Partner at Fedora Outlier I thought long and hard about having >> anybody from the firm posting about these daily blogs to this list just >> because I was worried about this type of negative reaction. Our team has >> been working very hard on this list and you are 100% correct when you say >> that we are trying to get some attention for our website. If I am not >> mistaken this is what is done every day on the Internet, and because our >> list is talking about iOS apps I thought that there would be some people on >> this list that might enjoy reading our posts. >> >> Let me clue everyone into how this list has developed. Each one of our team >> members picked one of the apps in the list and then wrote up a post about >> that app. This way we were assured of having very different styles of >> writing which in my opinion would make for some interesting reading. I >> believe that we have accomplished this. >> >> When you make the statement that this list has a drum role feel to it you >> hit the nail right on the head. This is the whole point of any kind of a >> countdown. >> >> Finally, everyone on this list or any other list in which people post blog >> snip its in order to get people to go to their websites have the right not >> to click that link or to just delete the post, however, I do not think that >> it is fair for those of us who are working very hard on trying to create >> content that hopefully the community will like, should be ridiculed for just >> trying to get noticed. >> >> I have said my peace on this and I would hope that others on this list will >> not hold my words against me if I have said anything in this message to >> offend them. 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