Blogs, even big blogs, are supposed to be a little different than old media sites. We write faster and update often. The writing is less processed. We break more real news and we don't hesitate to opine. We tend to get in fights with readers in the comments. And we aim to gain more of those readers, even the annoying ones, organically by attending events, spreading the word on Twitter and Facebook, and generally being part of the community. One thing big blogs don't do is buy traffic to juice up the Comscore numbers. It's an unspoken rule. It's cheating, and it brings in bad traffic that doesn't stick around or come back for the most part (or so we assume). So we're sad to see our sister blog Engadget doing just that - buying ads to pump up their Comscore rankings. We've seen a ridiculous number of ads on Google over the last month or two saying things like "Keep Up With What's Going On In The Tech World With News From Engadget." 
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/tlDSl_qxOcE/
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