Blogs Joining News Sites
- Posted by Johanna on June 4, 2006 at 7:18 pm
- Category: Comic News
First, comic news sites set up message boards in order to build traffic with minimal work and increase pageviews for ad sales. Now, the trend seems to be acquiring a blog. First, Comics Should Be Good went to Comic Book Resources — now The Great Curve has announced that they’re moving to Newsarama.
I can guess what the pre-existing sites get out of it — more fresh content at minimal effort — but I’m wondering what the blogs get? More reliable hosting?
June 4, 2006 at 8:02 pm
I’d guess they would get more traffic.
June 4, 2006 at 8:40 pm
Possibly money?
June 4, 2006 at 8:52 pm
One would hope, Dave, but one never knows. Lots of big-name outfits still expect contributions for “promotion” or other non-tangible rewards.
Traffic — very likely, James. Good point.
June 4, 2006 at 9:18 pm
*cough cough*
June 4, 2006 at 9:35 pm
Oh, right, you were the first, weren’t you, Heidi? Forgive me — your blog is a must read, but I haven’t stopped by Comicon in a long while, so the two aren’t joined in my head.
June 5, 2006 at 1:19 am
Was The Beat acquired by Comicon? I thought it started there.
June 5, 2006 at 9:06 am
I would assume the bloggers get an audience and the sites get traffic, simple as that. And the sites probably don’t need to take a heavy editorial line because they don’t approach that kind of blog in the first place.
June 5, 2006 at 11:24 am
Yes the Beat started at Comicon, ADD, and like the kids who are jealous of Sparky’s nice bicycle, now the others kids must all get one!
June 5, 2006 at 3:20 pm
Wait, wasn’t The Beat just a spin-off from The Pulse, both always run on Comicon.com? I’m confused now. . .
June 5, 2006 at 9:06 pm
The Beat started as a weekly column. Then it became a daily blog. And it was always at Comicon.
June 5, 2006 at 10:39 pm
Yeah, when Jonah asked me, it seemed like a pretty easy call. I would post the exact same blog I did before, only now it’d look a bit nicer and have different people read it (while presumably the current readers would just follow it to the new URL).