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80% of Consumers Would Not Pay For Content

As you've more than likely heard by now, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch in an interview last week talked about the possibility of blocking search engines from indexing News Corp. publications' content. While this may or may not actually happen, it is one of the latest (and biggest) examples of a publisher taking the position of search engines hurting them rather than helping them.

A Loophole For Paid Links

It seems it was only a matter of time before the cleverer element of the SEO world developed a workaround for Google's penalizing of paid links. The workaround involves a pretty creative "dynamic" linking strategy, and it's playing a little bit dirty.

Reuters Snares Content Deal With IHT

The International Herald Tribune agreed to an ad revenue sharing deal with Reuters that will monetize a new business report from the two news organizations.