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Re:The Surprising Path to a Faster NYTimes.com by acdha on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @02:58PM (#8363405)
If you're selling subscriptions, wouldn't that leave you more committed to the journalistic quality readers want rather than letting advertisers dominate that discussion?
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Re:The Surprising Path to a Faster NYTimes.com by vkb on Thursday September 25, 2014 @06:59AM (#8366519)
Yes, if you're selling subscriptions. SEO is not meant to maximize subscription revenue, but to get people to click for free, aka ads. Which will it be for them?

Two recent pieces are leading me to believe that NYT is floundering around, without a real cohesive online strategy, still:

[1]http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/the_new_york_timess_digital_li....

[2]http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/the_new_york_times_cant_abando....

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