Yesterday I aired a gripe about online newspapers not putting links to the websites that they’re talking about in their stories. (Thanks for all the retweets and comments!)
Did you find yourself wondering what kind of traffic one might get from a small story in a big print news source’s online version?
Wonder no more. Here’s the traffic we got from the online version of the boston.com post. That was as of this morning. There will obviously be some more traffic today and over the next few days, but you get the idea.
Here’s the traffic that we got from Time.com a few years ago.
I can’t show you the Staten Island news traffic because they didn’t link to me and I don’t see referrer information in reports. (But look at what the Boston Globe and Time Magazine did and you can do the math.)
There are few actual visitors from online news sources. (Not including front-page stories, I’m sure.)
But here’s what really matters.
Google reads every one of them.
If there’s a link in there, the value is huge.
If there’s no link in there, the value is relatively small.
That and I can show my mom what a success her son has become.
I'm Scott Jangro and I've been around the affiliate marketing space a long time. I've seen publisher businesses come and go. Heck, I've seen business models come and go. AffBook is about building sustainable web publishing businesses and funding them with what I think is the best way possible -- affiliate marketing.
