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Even TIME surrendered to listicles, journalism is officially a thing of the past.

by cliveowen 12y ago

jacquesm 12y ago
This is an article from health.com, it's linked at the bottom and at the top, they're a subsidiary of Time Inc.: http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20818045,00.html?xid=Time-energy-060314 http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20818045,00.html?xid... Link building is - in spite of panda - alive and well, just more subtle. Maybe google should penalize Time or Health.com? Oh, never mind, google is now in the spam and link building business for themselves (spam received on my gmail account, which is not exactly advertised as linked to ww.com): Google+ link request: Link http://ww.com/ http://ww.com/ to the vanklanhnguyen Google+ page vanklanhnguyen@gmail.com has sent you a request to link http://ww.com/ http://ww.com/ to the vanklanhnguyen Google+ page. Linking a Google+ page to a website not only helps build relationships with friends and followers, but also makes a page eligible to show up on the right-hand side of search for relevant queries which may make the page more discoverable. Learn more Recommended action Approve or reject this request. Got feedback? Leave it here. Be sure to include this message ID: [WMT-95212] Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043 | Unsubscribe.
oneeyedpigeon 12y ago
They've also resorted to what I like to think of as 'scamverts' - those adverts for absolutely lowest-common-denominator articles like "how to get an iPad for $15", provided - in this case - by a third-party service called 'Taboola'. Totally devalues the parent brand (i.e. Time) in my opinion.
snowwrestler 12y ago
TIME was never really a bastion of top journalism; it was a very popular news magazine but even looking back almost 100 hundred years it has depended on publicity gimmicks like "Man of the Year".

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Even TIME surrendered to listicles, journalism is officially a thing of the past.

by cliveowen 12y ago

Even TIME surrendered to listicles, journalism is officially a thing of the past.

jacquesm 12y ago
This is an article from health.com, it's linked at the bottom and at the top, they're a subsidiary of Time Inc.: http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20818045,00.html?xid=Time-energy-060314 http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20818045,00.html?xid... Link building is - in spite of panda - alive and well, just more subtle. Maybe google should penalize Time or Health.com? Oh, never mind, google is now in the spam and link building business for themselves (spam received on my gmail account, which is not exactly advertised as linked to ww.com): Google+ link request: Link http://ww.com/ http://ww.com/ to the vanklanhnguyen Google+ page vanklanhnguyen@gmail.com has sent you a request to link http://ww.com/ http://ww.com/ to the vanklanhnguyen Google+ page. Linking a Google+ page to a website not only helps build relationships with friends and followers, but also makes a page eligible to show up on the right-hand side of search for relevant queries which may make the page more discoverable. Learn more Recommended action Approve or reject this request. Got feedback? Leave it here. Be sure to include this message ID: [WMT-95212] Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043 | Unsubscribe.
oneeyedpigeon 12y ago
They've also resorted to what I like to think of as 'scamverts' - those adverts for absolutely lowest-common-denominator articles like "how to get an iPad for $15", provided - in this case - by a third-party service called 'Taboola'. Totally devalues the parent brand (i.e. Time) in my opinion.
snowwrestler 12y ago
TIME was never really a bastion of top journalism; it was a very popular news magazine but even looking back almost 100 hundred years it has depended on publicity gimmicks like "Man of the Year".