I don’t think anyone here is trying to put down the work you guys have done, and yes, website traffic is the goal of most blogs and similar services. However, this:
Check out this app, number 6 on our Top Ten Apps list: [url] says nothing except that you only had time to type up a sentence and then paste the link. This: Check out Sendero GPS, number 6 on our Top Ten Apps! With Sendero GPS, you can plan routes, explore distant locations, discover nearby points of interest, figure out where you are, and so much more! Check out our review: [url] makes me really want to know more, because that sounds like a great app and I want to know what else you have to say about it. To be very clear: I have no problem whatsoever with you guys posting these app picks here, and I even welcome it as it lets newer list members in on some possibly useful tools for them to go try. However, when is the last time you clicked a link because someone basically said “click this link”? I never do, and I’m sure most people don’t, because I have absolutely no idea what the link goes to and if it is worth it. Giving us just a one-sentence summary of the app, and the app’s name, provides that missing information and will, it seems to me, make people more likely to click through to the website. Maybe I’m off base here, but those are my opinions. Again, I’m more than fine with you guys posting content like this, and would suggest doing it more than once a year, but you may want to look at how you are trying to draw people in. On Jan 26, 2014, at 5:47 PM, Scott Rumery <blindfait...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Christopher, > > As the Senior Partner at Fedora Outlier I thought long and hard about having > anybody from the firm posting about these daily blogs to this list just > because I was worried about this type of negative reaction. Our team has been > working very hard on this list and you are 100% correct when you say that we > are trying to get some attention for our website. If I am not mistaken this > is what is done every day on the Internet, and because our list is talking > about iOS apps I thought that there would be some people on this list that > might enjoy reading our posts. > > Let me clue everyone into how this list has developed. Each one of our team > members picked one of the apps in the list and then wrote up a post about > that app. This way we were assured of having very different styles of writing > which in my opinion would make for some interesting reading. I believe that > we have accomplished this. > > When you make the statement that this list has a drum role feel to it you hit > the nail right on the head. This is the whole point of any kind of a > countdown. > > Finally, everyone on this list or any other list in which people post blog > snip its in order to get people to go to their websites have the right not > to click that link or to just delete the post, however, I do not think that > it is fair for those of us who are working very hard on trying to create > content that hopefully the community will like, should be ridiculed for just > trying to get noticed. > > I have said my peace on this and I would hope that others on this list will > not hold my words against me if I have said anything in this message to > offend them. Believe me, if I did then I apologize because it was not my > intent. > > Scott Rumery > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
