Nine Questions on Patch’s New Push: National Hyperlocal?, SEO Sauces, and the Case of the Besieged Florist

So who's the ad competition? Maybe we should ask, who isn't? ...The question, here, is one of sustainability. Certainly, there's the question whether Patch can sustain itself, as its parent AOL struggles to find a new identity and growing business model. Then, there's the question of the ...

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Patch vs. MediaNews: One Little, Instructive Story

Type "San Ramon shooting" into Google, and on both web and news search, Patch comes up first. In addition, Patch's story elicited nine comments by late Thursday evening; Contra Costa's none. A small sample, but therein may lay this emerging tale of newspaper vs. Patch competition. The story ...

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