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So I’ve finally bitten the bullet and started writing an ebook some 3 or 4 years after I first thought it would be a good idea.

The topic will be blog traffic, and everything I know about obtaining it.

But I have a small favor to ask: I’m looking for questions to go in the book. While a lot of the book will talk about technique and strategy, I want real questions from real people to break things up.

If you have any question about generating blog traffic, be it with a particular technique or anything you might think is relevant, ask away in the comments.

If I select your question for the book, your name and site will be featured with the question! (obviously you should include your actual name and offer your URL with the blog comment in the correct fields etc 🙂 )

Well, presuming you have a site and want it. If you don’t want your name in the book, let me know.

Also, if I have your email you’ll get an answer to the question as well, although will be in the next few weeks vs say the next day or two.

I have ZERO idea how many people will be exposed to the book (obviously I’m hoping millions 🙂 ) but I’m confident that we should be able to get to maybe a few thousand minimum.

Thanks
Duncan.

PS: if you’re interested in selling it, affiliate details will be ready hopefully in the next 2 weeks, stay tuned.

Good until Dec 31, 2010 for first order. Order must be min $20.

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From the exit post on New Matilda:

Looking to the experience of media start-ups in the US and the UK, we have realised that the days of the single-revenue media outlet are over. Nowadays, small outlets are finding new ways to fund their work through what Texas Tribune founder John Thornton calls “revenue promiscuity”: “you have to get it everywhere and often”.

They are trading on the quality of their journalism and their trusted brands to build relationships with other media outlets to which they provide niche content. And they rely on a broad and growing base of philanthropists, funding bodies, foundations and individuals who see that as the media industry cuts costs, the survival of public interest journalism requires them to put their money where their mouth is.

Well, it’s a triple backflip summersault from an editor that claimed that there was no future in online media.

But it is spoilt a bit by stuff like this

These outlets are doing important work to fill the gaps left by a shrinking media industry, often with little money and few staff

Actually, the media industry is thriving. The HERITAGE media is shrinking, new media is thriving. And that’s half the problem with how New Matilda was run, and was certainly a problem at Crikey when king luddite Jonathan Green ran the shop: neither considers themselves to be part of new media.

This also doesn’t help

When we re-launch, our primary aim will not be to drive hits back to our own site — the model that advertisers dictate is king — but to inject new, quality journalism and analysis into the Australian media environment. In this way we hope to inspire enough of you out there to deem us worthy of your financial support.

She doesn’t seem to understand that traffic isn’t just about ads: if you don’t have enough readers, you’re not going to get enough financial support from ANY source.

Another birthday passed May 5 for The Inquisitr, and we did the month in style with new traffic highs.

The challenge ahead is to get the uniques up now; we’ve finally got the page views per visit up to where is should be, but its the extra uniques that drive the ad revenue.

Not bad numbers for a site mocked by a senior ABC employee as “insignificant” or another Australian publication as “having 50 readers.” 🙂