Excellent post which reflects my feelings on this. I certainly don't
intend to ridicule anyone's hard work and don't mind these messages
being posted here but as you say, just a little more info would attract
more people for the right reasons.
Best Regards,
Rick alfaro
On 1/26/2014 6:32 PM, Alex Hall 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. Believe me, if I did then I apologize because it was not my intent.
Scott Rumery
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