An easy way to publish and syndicate your best news articles on some of the big news and media websites
Web content is more plentiful that grains of sand on the beach. However, really good and newsworthy web content is much more scarce. The cyberspace audience is discerning, but it takes time to attract them, and you need sustained quality to hold their attention and to bring them back. Quality content is the obvious secret to long term success on the web.
Almost nobody pays for content. For a humorous take on this, see the recent Prickly City comics about Winslow, the coyote blogger. Winslow supposedly blogs for no compensation in the “Blog Gulag” on the huffingtonpost.com. Poor Winslow.
With blogging, you only get paid indirectly and usually the pay is paltry. You pick up revenue through advertising. Oddly enough, you get paid by those readers who want to click on ads and go away from you. However, most readers would not have shown up in the first place, if you had not developed a reputation for having something interesting to say.
Sadly, there really is no direct money in blogging content – however good the quality of your content might be. Blogging barriers to entry are nonexistent, and good writers are a penny a dozen.
(Apparently, no direct compensation is also the attitude of the major media conglomerates toward their professional writers from the Writers Guild of American. Please, media moguls, give the professional writers a fair shake on you republishing their work in new media. Put the real Jon Stewart and Dave Letterman back on the air! We’re dyin’ out here with reruns!)
Traditional news media and media center publications are moving to the web and they want quality editorial content.
Traditional news media have moved to the web with mixed results. If you look at the top 100 print newspapers, their web efforts get to looking pretty sad, before you get half-way down the list.
On-line newspaper editors want quality, but they figure that they already have local or syndicated columnists for most of their content and commentary. As a blogger, trying to talk your way onto a newspaper website as a matter subject expert is similar to getting yourself picked up as syndicated columnist. That path is time consuming and expensive to try, and current newspaper and magazine columnists have a very strong upper hand [...]