Nick Mentioned this in his December 6th podcast but I think it’s important to note and hopefully get him a few listeners by dropping another link. Search Engine Land is really making Search Engine Watch look like the keystone cops during a chinese fire drill. Smack dab in the middle of SES Chicago Conference, as of this morning SEL has 25 posts for that time period, compared to 9 for SEW.
It’s the difference between just doing the work and striving to be a leader. They knew Danny was leaving, they knew when he was leaving, and they just didn’t do a thing about. They should have come roaring out of the gate with a plan, instead of saying “we don’t have a clue what to do so please tell us … PLEASE“. What happened they sat on their asses while Search Engine Land stole their thunder from them at their own show.
Please SEW stand up and do something, take the initiative and just do something, because right now this is just embarrassing to watch …
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Not that Alexa is the most accurate source, but it seems that searchengineland.com is quickly rising in traffic. If it keeps growing in a year it could be as big as SEW.
Growing for sure, but I suspect it’s the “webmaster effect”. While I do get lots of traffic lets be real I’m not in the op 8,000 of websites on web
SEL has now 513 Bloglines subscribers! So they have already thousands of feed subscribers. Of course it was never to expect that SEL could fail, but I am extreme irritating that SEW knew a long time when Danny would leaving them and they didn´t make plans for the future.
He’s using Typepad, though. A bloody awful platform and very user-unfriendly.
Probably why he has so many posts and readers, but F all comments.
Yes, I have a Typekey account, no it doesn’t work, no I don’t want to sign myself up for yet another privacy violation.
2c grumpy Scottish cents.
Brian – yeah it’s a pain but they are actually planning on changing that:
Note: We are currently using TypeKey for commenting, but that will change with our own commenting registration later this month.
From this: http://searchengineland.com/061201-070149.html
I used “Out of The Gate” to describe SEL in a recent post you know, let’s try to not recycle news too much eh graywolf? ;-(
Chris, hopefully we can teach you the benefit of Woirdpress.
So powerful and simple to use, for admins and users. Great anti-spam and SEO friendliness, too.
Brian –
I DO use WordPress that quote was directly from Barry on why they use typepad and that they plan to change it (click the URL above)
Chris
I think the competition of two quality sites can only be great for our industry.
Its going to be a big couple of months for both SearchEngineLand and SearchEngineWatch – should be interesting to see who comes out on top.
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