What is the most useful frequent flyer blog?
Apr 6, 2013, 7:16 am
#2356
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 5,439
But the issue was, it wasn't a trip report about his AA flight - it was a completely separate post that (at least attempted) to individually target the question "what is the best business class seat". Then he went off on a tangent about other parts of the product, too.
Put it another way - if his post was "AA's new seat is great", then I would agree. But it turned out to be "AA's new seat is great, and therefore AA is the best at everything". At least, that's the implication I took from it.
Put it another way - if his post was "AA's new seat is great", then I would agree. But it turned out to be "AA's new seat is great, and therefore AA is the best at everything". At least, that's the implication I took from it.
Apr 6, 2013, 10:33 am
#2357
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But the issue was, it wasn't a trip report about his AA flight - it was a completely separate post that (at least attempted) to individually target the question "what is the best business class seat". Then he went off on a tangent about other parts of the product, too.
Put it another way - if his post was "AA's new seat is great", then I would agree. But it turned out to be "AA's new seat is great, and therefore AA is the best at everything". At least, that's the implication I took from it.
Put it another way - if his post was "AA's new seat is great", then I would agree. But it turned out to be "AA's new seat is great, and therefore AA is the best at everything". At least, that's the implication I took from it.
Apr 6, 2013, 5:30 pm
#2358
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 994
After several weeks, first2board's website still is cluttered. It tries to put too many posts/entries/updates/etc into a single page and has no focus. They should limit content to 15-20 posts. Cureently, i count boxes to 38 entries some of which are duplicates.
Apr 6, 2013, 6:13 pm
#2359
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: SEA
Posts: 1,887
It really is a trainwreck. Looks like windows 8 on steroids.
Apr 6, 2013, 11:02 pm
#2360
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 6,385
I think Jason Steele writes an iffy post as a response to the posts earlier on the FT threat about the TPG and sticking in links.
I skimmed the whole post (you can find link on TBB) but this really stuck out at me and I felt I had to talk about it:
um... please don't tell me blogs that push links are easy to spot. If so, the only "good" blogs are vftw and mms. I've seen everyone else push at least one bad link.
True, but then that doesn't prevent the blog ideas of the person who hired you to tailor their ideas to push links... and I could be wrong here unless you were free to write on what you want I don't think your content is uncorrupted by links. Especially if it's a credit card insurance post. What does that scream? CC links.
I skimmed the whole post (you can find link on TBB) but this really stuck out at me and I felt I had to talk about it:
As for those blogs who tailor their content to push links, they are easy to spot. They offer poor advice and are constantly pushing inferior products. If you feel a blog is doing this, my advice is to simply stop reading them rather than go on a crusade. There are far worse things in this world worth spending your time crusading against.
Therefore, my writing is inherently uncorrupted by these links, at least until my editors get at it.
Apr 6, 2013, 11:47 pm
#2361
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I think Jason Steele writes an iffy post as a response to the posts earlier on the FT threat about the TPG and sticking in links.
I skimmed the whole post (you can find link on TBB) but this really stuck out at me and I felt I had to talk about it:
um... please don't tell me blogs that push links are easy to spot. If so, the only "good" blogs are vftw and mms. I've seen everyone else push at least one bad link.
True, but then that doesn't prevent the blog ideas of the person who hired you to tailor their ideas to push links... and I could be wrong here unless you were free to write on what you want I don't think your content is uncorrupted by links. Especially if it's a credit card insurance post. What does that scream? CC links.
I skimmed the whole post (you can find link on TBB) but this really stuck out at me and I felt I had to talk about it:
um... please don't tell me blogs that push links are easy to spot. If so, the only "good" blogs are vftw and mms. I've seen everyone else push at least one bad link.
True, but then that doesn't prevent the blog ideas of the person who hired you to tailor their ideas to push links... and I could be wrong here unless you were free to write on what you want I don't think your content is uncorrupted by links. Especially if it's a credit card insurance post. What does that scream? CC links.
They have a wonderful sense of irony!
Apr 7, 2013, 12:18 pm
#2362
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Brooklyn
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Hey Guys,
I'm new to the blogging world. Would you mind giving me some feedback on my site?
saverocity.com
I talk about travel and personal finance, as these are my two areas of interest. I think that travel hacking dovetails well with concepts of financial intelligence and frugal living.
I'd be happy to hear what you like or dislike about my content/presentation/adverts so I can get better at what I am doing.
Cheers,
Matt
I'm new to the blogging world. Would you mind giving me some feedback on my site?
saverocity.com
I talk about travel and personal finance, as these are my two areas of interest. I think that travel hacking dovetails well with concepts of financial intelligence and frugal living.
I'd be happy to hear what you like or dislike about my content/presentation/adverts so I can get better at what I am doing.
Cheers,
Matt
Apr 7, 2013, 3:39 pm
#2363
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 3,737
Hey Guys,
I'm new to the blogging world. Would you mind giving me some feedback on my site?
saverocity.com
I talk about travel and personal finance, as these are my two areas of interest. I think that travel hacking dovetails well with concepts of financial intelligence and frugal living.
I'd be happy to hear what you like or dislike about my content/presentation/adverts so I can get better at what I am doing.
Cheers,
Matt
I'm new to the blogging world. Would you mind giving me some feedback on my site?
saverocity.com
I talk about travel and personal finance, as these are my two areas of interest. I think that travel hacking dovetails well with concepts of financial intelligence and frugal living.
I'd be happy to hear what you like or dislike about my content/presentation/adverts so I can get better at what I am doing.
Cheers,
Matt
or putting something like, "12,500 Miles to Asia in First Class" or 7,500 Miles to South America
When you write, "A free ticket one way anywhere until 2014… that’s travel hacking." You are technically paying for this with you original redemption of an award ticket, so how is it free?
Overall the design and layout of the site is good.
Last edited by Astrophsx; Apr 7, 2013 at 4:01 pm
Apr 7, 2013, 4:00 pm
#2364
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: SEA
Posts: 1,887
Guess what the latest excuse to pimp Chase Sapphire Preferred, Chase Ink Bold, and Chase Ink Plus affiliate links is? Really, could any of the usual suspects blog about anything UR related without throwing in the gratuitous links?
Apr 7, 2013, 4:04 pm
#2365
Join Date: Jun 2012
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Posts: 121
There are some really bad blogs, some bad bloggers, and some egregious, gratuitious pimping of credit card links.
But there's also legitimate news. Chase Ultimate Rewards adding a transfer partner is actually news, and something reasonable to post -- at least for the first few blogs covering it.
Folks here who don't distinguish between the two situations really harm their credibility.
But there's also legitimate news. Chase Ultimate Rewards adding a transfer partner is actually news, and something reasonable to post -- at least for the first few blogs covering it.
Folks here who don't distinguish between the two situations really harm their credibility.
Apr 7, 2013, 4:32 pm
#2367
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: SEA
Posts: 1,887
Yes, it most certainly warrants adding affiliate links in the opening slavo, lol. How can anyone who hasn't yet signed up for these cards not do so now given the news? 
Apr 7, 2013, 4:43 pm
#2368
Join Date: Jun 2012
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Posts: 121
Legitimate news (content isn't being skewed), financial relationship properly disclosed, it seems like the complaints should focus on the bad blogs and worst offenders not just 'I don't like that they included a link in that post' where it's on-topic.
Otherwise critics just marginalize themselves, howling at the moon. Better to show one understands the distinction I offered above, and save complaints for actual bad behavior, or it's all just noise.
Otherwise critics just marginalize themselves, howling at the moon. Better to show one understands the distinction I offered above, and save complaints for actual bad behavior, or it's all just noise.
Apr 7, 2013, 5:09 pm
#2370
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Posts: 69,232
There are some really bad blogs, some bad bloggers, and some egregious, gratuitious pimping of credit card links.
But there's also legitimate news. Chase Ultimate Rewards adding a transfer partner is actually news, and something reasonable to post -- at least for the first few blogs covering it.
Folks here who don't distinguish between the two situations really harm their credibility.
But there's also legitimate news. Chase Ultimate Rewards adding a transfer partner is actually news, and something reasonable to post -- at least for the first few blogs covering it.
Folks here who don't distinguish between the two situations really harm their credibility.