What is it with A-List bloggers?
October 17th, 2007 Elliot
In a discussion about comments on blogs, nationally-recognized law school blogger Ann Althouse writes:
A good commenter isn’t just a would-be blogger. He’s not just mooching off someone else’s hard-won traffic.
Although Ann isn’t saying it herself, it kills me when I hear the accusation that someone is “mooching off someone else’s hard-won traffic.”
Where did that hard-won traffic come from except from the author commenting on other people’s blogs, linking to other people’s blogs, and being linked to by other blogs?
There isn’t a divine right to traffic. And trying to build a readership by participating in other people’s comment sections is NOT mooching.
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4 Comments Add your own
1. Fuzz Martin | October 17th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
I’m just leaving a comment here to mooch off of your traffic. Just as an example. I hope you don’t mind. I know you worked hard to win your traffic. ;)
2. Elliot | October 17th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
I actually won my traffic in a court settlement.
Or was it a lottery?
Either way. ;)
3. mickey | October 17th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Are you guys/gals referring to Stevie Winwood Traffic or Jimi Hendrix Crosstown traffic.
Quality beats quantity. Or so I’m told.
4. Mooch, Mooch, Mooch Mooch&hellip | October 18th, 2007 at 5:32 am
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