PaidContent Blog on Block?

John C. Smith said:

Henry, if you're going to throw your hat into this pissing match only fair for you to add a line on that graph for SAI traffic. I would do it for you myself, but I'm not very good at the Internets. Looking fwd to the revised post.

John C. Smith said:

Mar. 19, 3:35 PM

p.s. Compete not super reliable in my experience unless you're playing ball w/ their analytics. Same w/ Quantcast and their pixel. Hate to say it but Alexa is almost better, for whatever it's worth, to ensure apples to apples.

Henry Blodget said:

Mar. 19, 3:36 PM

Okay, okay. Coming up...

none (URL) said:

Mar. 19, 3:36 PM

here you go: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/paidcontent.org+alleyinsider.com+techcrunch.com?metric=uv

i don't think it's fair to compare PC with TC or SAI-- PC really caters to a much smaller group of media industry insiders. tech news is accessible to a much larger potential group of readers.

John C. Smith said:

Mar. 19, 3:41 PM

I think PC and SAI are very comparable in terms of focus of content and addressable audience. SAI more sensationalist; PC sucks up harder to large mediacos (who sponsor their events, make Rafat feel important, etc).

Agree w/ none's pt on TC audience vs. the other two though. Arrington however corrupt and insufferable.

Henry Blodget said:

Mar. 19, 3:44 PM

Agreed--TechCrunch traffic very impressive.

allen stern said:

Mar. 19, 4:59 PM

just a quick note that compete only records traffic for U.S. visitors.

paid content fan said:

Mar. 19, 7:51 PM

oh c'mon, henry. don't turn into a click whore, a la arrington. paid content is quite good and they rarely put out posts that are utterly and fantastically wrong (Sound familiar? I'll give you a hint. The Website's two initials are TC.)

Henry Blodget said:

Mar. 19, 8:32 PM

I like some of PaidContent's stuff. And agree that TC needs to tighten reporting standards (or at least be clearer about what is just rumor).

Bjorn Tipling (URL) said:

Mar. 19, 9:17 PM

So SAI is raising VC money?

Low down said:

Mar. 19, 9:28 PM

Well, according to Alexa "Techcrunch" is still slipping low. No body liked techcrunch. Here's why...

1.) Libel, Defamatory, Slander.
2.) Ruin some hardworking startups repulations
3.) Putting deadpool
4.) Supports Porns & zavity ( hurting adverstiers)
5.) Sometimes, they ease sponsors' comments.
6.) They can't even afford high speed server.
7.) Running page load. Extreme slow.
8.) Sometimes, they show IP addresses on posts
9.) It's too many "sins"; inside techcrunch
10.)Why attack Wikia, Rivals.com, Mylivesearch, all startups and putting people to ignore?

My friend who works Adsense technology. He don't trust Techcrunch. They don't always follow adsense TOS.

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/techcrunch.com

Joe Z said:

Mar. 20, 1:01 AM

C'mon Henry,
are you really trying to fool us with your BS. Is SAI looking to sell itself ? Is Kevin desperate for a win?

Marah Marie (URL) said:

Mar. 20, 3:00 AM

@ Low down, interesting list, and I'm glad you noted how slow TC is (they can't afford a faster server? seriously?) - but what exactly is "zavity"? I've even tried rhyming it on the off-chance it's a misspelling (gravity, cavity, etc.) but I'm getting nowhere.

TC's gone the ValleyWag route lately with shades of FC.com thrown in for good measure (the deadpool? most of the time they're trashing startups that no one - that is, no one who doesn't live in the Alley or the Valley - has even heard of - nice stuff) and my question is, who cares?

It's like taking TMZ.com seriously because oh my, they have such high page views. Well, of course they do. Everything they write or write about is trash. There's a direct correlation between amount of trash to amount of page views.

The reason these sites matter is not for their accuracy or excellent content or kind handling of others - it's because in spite of how bad they are they still get a lot of visitors, a lot of backlinks, good SERP and PR, and are highly monetizable if anyone can figure out a way to make money off of the ads that everyone either tunes out or AdBlocks. Those are the only reasons why anyone cares how sites like TC do (hmm, and I just answered my own question).

L. McDuff said:

Mar. 20, 2:23 PM

L. McDuff said:

Mar. 20, 2:29 PM

My graphic didn't come out right. It was a 4 quadrant chart that plots the 4 major media/tech blogs based on their positioning on two spectrums: reporting accuracy (FACT vs. RUMOR) and writing style (STAID vs. HYPERBOLE). The Y axis has FACT on top, RUMOR on bottom and an X axis with STAID at left and HYPERBOLE at right.

paidcontent is upper left
SAI is slightly upper and right
TechCrunch is slightly lower and right
ValleyWag is lower right

Make sense?

L. McDuff said:

Mar. 20, 2:41 PM

My graphic didn't come out right. It was a 4 quadrant chart that plots the 4 major media/tech blogs based on their positioning on two spectrums: reporting accuracy (FACT vs. RUMOR) and writing style (STAID vs. HYPERBOLE). The Y axis has FACT on top, RUMOR on bottom and an X axis with STAID at left and HYPERBOLE at right.

paidcontent is upper left
SAI is slightly upper and right
TechCrunch is slightly lower and right
ValleyWag is lower right

Make sense?

Pissy tone explained! said:

Mar. 28, 12:38 PM

Re the pissy tone of the paidcontent denial, have you ever encountered Rafat Ali? That's his normal tone, so nothing can be read into that. :-)

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