http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/2009/03/26/bloggers-going-cheap/ Margaret Simons on Media Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:43:32 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/2009/03/26/bloggers-going-cheap/comment-page-1/#comment-1670 fitzroyalty Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:31:51 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/?p=1093#comment-1670 My mother told me that if I have nothing nice to say then say nothing, but I never paid much attention. This is all about paying shit to write shit to SEO the shit out of it to get some rank and sell some ads. Does anyone care about the content on this site? I applaud the honesty but fail to see the point of it. Writers with a unique focus or specialty would be better off writing for (next to) nothing on their own sites than building someone else's media empire. My mother told me that if I have nothing nice to say then say nothing, but I never paid much attention. This is all about paying shit to write shit to SEO the shit out of it to get some rank and sell some ads. Does anyone care about the content on this site? I applaud the honesty but fail to see the point of it. Writers with a unique focus or specialty would be better off writing for (next to) nothing on their own sites than building someone else’s media empire.

]]> http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/2009/03/26/bloggers-going-cheap/comment-page-1/#comment-1615 Mark Bahnisch Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:17:44 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/contentmakers/?p=1093#comment-1615 Yep. It's not megabucks. But I understand the Courier-Mail is now paying some of its freelance contributors zero. Yep. It’s not megabucks. But I understand the Courier-Mail is now paying some of its freelance contributors zero.

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