Alas, self-interest. If readers are interested, they may click through to our newspaper’s website. We make our money, and pay our salaries, with advertising revenue and our advertisers don’t pay us for clicks elsewhere. Only those on our site.
When you see links, think ads. It’s a big part of what the Internet is about.
At your service in Christ . . .
Mark Landsbaum
I do. And I think cookies and malware too.
It’s a big part of what the Internet is about.
But FR is not all about needlessly excerpting your blog to pimp it for hits. We're not here just to give you clicks.
So basically you excerpt here to drive traffic and make money.
You obviously consider Free Republic to be nothing more than a "hit farm".
How much do you contribute here?
Or are we just a free advertising platform to you?
Free Republic doesn't make any money at all on blogpimps. Perhaps you could share some of your pimping revenue with Free Republic:
Rather than USING Free Republic as free advertising, how about actually contributing to the forum both financially and by participating in threads (other than your own)?