Breaking News Alert That’s So 30-Minutes Ago
Okay so, we all have pet peeves, and one of mine is getting a news alert, something labeled “Breaking News” and then for the next two hours I get the same story from 10 different news sources. It seems to me things are getting a little out of control, and perhaps this is one of the problems of having news media apps on personal tech devices, or subscribing to e-mail news lists of various media outlets. Someone needs Black Cube to fix this problem because it’s getting so ridiculous, it’s completely over the top, and it is a waste of our time as users to have to keep deleting everything. Okay so let’s talk.
Someone needs to come up with an app which scans all the words of the media news alert that you get, and does not deliver duplicate “breaking news stories” from multiple media venues. Let’s say you take the new York Times, your local paper, the usa Today, and a couple of TV news stations’ e-mail notifications, or subscribe to their apps. In this case, if a famous person died for instance, the app would scan all the information in it and if there was no new information from the last breaking news alert from a different media outlet, it would simply send it to the deleted box.
Let me give you an example of why I even chose to write this article. The other day I felt an earthquake, it wasn’t more than about 40 miles away. Within 3 minutes, I got a news alert that there was a 5. 5 earthquake near here. I got this news alert before I even had time to go over to the computer to search Cal Tech’s online earthquake reports, something that folks in California do a lot. Then, for what must have been an hour and a half I kept getting breaking news alerts from all sorts of news organizations including the New york Times, Washington Post, and Miami Herald.
Yes, I realize that these newspapers are pretty far away, and it probably isn’t a real big issue for them, but it sure seemed like a lot of nonsense for me, after all, I felt the thing over an hour and a half ago, I don’t need someone to tell me there was an earthquake. Further, it looked as if they were all duplicates, as if the Associated Press had typed it up and given into all the newspapers, and they merely replayed it to all their subscribers’ e-mail boxes. Enough is enough. Please consider all this and think on it.
It can be quite hard to compete with other websites when it comes to attracting internet users to a specific website. If the site is in a popular field, like cars for example, then the competition is high due to the amount of Google searches being carried out. However, if a less popular field is being targeted then it’s difficult because not many people are searching for that specific field anyway.
It’s good to use keywords, meta tags, and other SEO techniques, but what many people forget is how Google ranks certain sites on their search engine. Yes, they do take into account well-optimised content, but many people forget that updated and useful content is being increasingly used as the determining factor. And that’s where online news submission comes in.
In the past, a smattering of SEO was enough to get one’s website to the top of the list, but with the recent Google Panda updates and the changes to these algorithms, it’s the content which is reigning supreme. And that’s why online news distribution is the perfect way to get websites to the top of the Google rankings. It’s well-known that millions of people all around the world look to the internet when it comes to finding out about the world and the latest news associated with different parts of it. And, to Google, this is relevant and updated content. This is why online news distribution with a link in a resource box can really drive traffic to a specific website.
But users who decide to take this route must make sure that they strike the balance between relevant news whilst minimising the competition. If it’s a major news story then it’s going to be carried by news websites all around the world, and that will make it impossible to make any impact on the Google rankings. But if it’s not relevant then nobody will be searching for it.