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Maybe this is an idealistic thought, but I think this trend of writing SEO laden garbage is what will finally make quality journalism behind paywalls work. Peo
by kylelibra 15y ago
Maybe this is an idealistic thought, but I think this trend of writing SEO laden garbage is what will finally make quality journalism behind paywalls work. People will eventually be driven to pay for decent content, unable to put up with irrelevant half baked articles churned out at breakneck pace.
- Legion 15y agoI pay for publications like The Economist and The Atlantic (both of which I read entirely digitally) for exactly that reason. I want quality content when I sit down to spend my precious reading time on something. I can hardly imagine spending that time reading insipid, content mill junk. Who puts so low of a value on their time?
- kirkland 15y agoThat's an interesting take on this. I would certainly be happy to pay to avoid having to wade through all the garbage that's on the internet now. Now, that doesn't just apply to journalism, it's all content really. To take this a step further, for me, the only reason I'm ever exposed to garbage content is from google results. I'm not sure google will be able to solve this problem, or if they do, it won't be from taking the same approach that's made them successful. I expect that some sort of curated search engine(s) will be the solution in the future. What exactly this will look like, I have no idea... if I did know I would be trying to build it.
- mattmanser 15y agoI kinda doubt it, in the end google can always do what they did with wikipedia and add a fudge factor (quality news site? +100 google points!).