People buy and listen to their music where they buy and listen to their music. I, as a content provider, can’t influence that. There are many people in this business that say, ‘I wish people still bought vinyl. I wish people still bought CDs.’ But you can’t base your business on that.
Scott Ambrose Reilly, X5’s CEO of North America (How Tiny X5 Music Group Is Slaying Label Goliaths On The Billboard Charts - Forbes)
Link Building for SEO on Tumblr
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Ha! I never thought about the fact that each “like” you leave on someone else’s Tumblr becomes a free backlink. Moderately trashy SEO strategy.
This is even more incentive to block the insane number of Spammers liking posts on Tumblr lately, though does blocking it actually do the trick in that case? It looks like the likes still go towards the like count, even though the links no longer appear on the page.
'Google Doesn't Laugh': Saving Witty Headlines in the Age of SEO
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Interesting. In click-throughs of e-mails and Facebook ads, people often show that they don’t like witty headlines, either. Will this become a lost art?
