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It’s True Twitter Does Not Drive Traffic

Derek Thompson has the details of his own look at Twitter engagement numbers over at the Atlantic. Is the social web just a matrix of empty shares, of hollow generosity? As Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile once said (on Twitter), there is “effectively no correlation between social shares and people actually reading.” People read without sharing,…

What I’m Reading (weekly)

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Google Not Loving Blogs So Much

Now I know it’s not just me. Nate Hoffelder’s article came across in my wanderings this week, commenting on a post he had read by Marco Arment about search traffic, or rather the lack of search traffic. (Follow the links in both articles too, for more on the topic!) Basically, they’ve been noticing a drop…