Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The recent partnership between Foursquare and Canada’s Metro is a good early example of the potential that exists. While different from my archive idea, this is a great example of location-based opportunities for news sites. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2010

I have seen plenty of blog posts and conference presentations on how to utilize Static FBML but I rarely see news sites highlighted among the examples of good usage. There are a handful of examples however that are worth pointing out. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme. Not so many.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

So I thought I’d take a closer look at what Fox News is doing on its Facebook Page , as well as some engagement examples. Alicia Keys Facebook Page: I’d Sign Up if She Asked Me All Cool { 1 comment… read it below or add one } David Mathison September 25, 2009 at 7:13 pm Hmmm. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Yahoo Adds Enhanced News Results to SearchMonkey by Adam Sherk on August 31, 2009 On Friday Yahoo announced new additions to its SearchMonkey enhanced results, including options for news content. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Do People Search for “Breaking News”? by Adam Sherk on June 9, 2009 Among news sites “breaking news” is a sought-after keyword phrase; I see it prominently placed in home page title tags all the time: And it’s not just general news sites.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Do People Search for “Breaking News”? by Adam Sherk on June 9, 2009 Among news sites “breaking news” is a sought-after keyword phrase; I see it prominently placed in home page title tags all the time: And it’s not just general news sites.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 20, 2009

I went looking for an updated story in Google News today and was able to find an example. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google Living Stories – Just Snazzy Topic Pages or is Google onto Something? by Adam Sherk on December 8, 2009 Today Google unveiled its Living Stories prototype , showcasing its vision of a new format for presenting news stories online.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google News Optimization Tips by Adam Sherk on September 3, 2009 This week Google put out a video to give publishers more information on how Google News works and how best to optimize for it. Especially using jpegs, I didn’t even know this mattered that much.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 24, 2010

Checking another example, the news listing in my results for “egg recall CNN” was for NECN.com not CNN.com, although it should be noted that “CNN” appears twice in that article. So a handful of examples from one individual does not make for a comprehensive sampling. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

MAY 18, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Newsweek’s Tim Geithner Interview Live on Facebook: Don’t Forget to Link to the Video Afterwards by Adam Sherk on May 18, 2009 Today Newsweek offered live streaming of Jon Meacham’s interview with Treasury Security Tim Geithner on its Facebook page.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 18, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Newsweek’s Tim Geithner Interview Live on Facebook: Don’t Forget to Link to the Video Afterwards by Adam Sherk on May 18, 2009 Today Newsweek offered live streaming of Jon Meacham’s interview with Treasury Security Tim Geithner on its Facebook page.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 9, 2009

For example at the bottom of this syndicated LiveScience.com article you’ll see the attribution link: ( 2010 Update: The syndicated article no longer appears on Yahoo News so I removed the link to it. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

MAY 13, 2009

Here’s an example Rich Snippet from a Yelp listing for restaurant in New York that I like: To take advantage of this opportunity you need to add microformat or RDFa markup to the source code of your review pages, which is pretty straightforward. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk A Look at Muck Rack’s Twitter Press Release Service, 51 Releases Later by Adam Sherk on October 20, 2009 I’m definitely a fan of Muck Rack – it offers an easy way to track major media journalists on Twitter and pick up on trending topics.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Let Your Freak Flag Fly October 6th, 2010 Tweet This is a guest post by Narciso Tovar This past week, I gave a presentation to the Dallas IREM group about the importance of giving social media a second look.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 5, 2009

Previously, sponsored links in JavaScript such as those in the example above could not be read by crawlers and thus were in compliance with Google’s guidelines. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites: Tame Your Blog Tags by Adam Sherk on February 19, 2010 Ever notice all the tags that some blogs add to their posts? Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 30, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the Canonical URL Tag by Adam Sherk on April 30, 2009 Really you shouldn’t need it. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme. xid=rss (or ?xid=topstories

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

In other cases no headline or descriptive text is provided, as in this example from Time : On this Silicon Alley Insider article, clicking the Twitter link in the share toolbar brings up nothing but the full length URL, which is interesting because a shortened bit.ly What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites by Adam Sherk on October 8, 2009 Although search engines keep improving on their ability to deal with duplicate content, this continues to be one of the main SEO issues facing news and content sites.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 22, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines? Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 7, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Diversified Twitter Strategies for News Sites by Adam Sherk on August 7, 2009 This week’s Sysomos study of the 5% most active users on Twitter includes a list of the top 25 users (with more than 50,000 followers) ranked by average tweets per day. tweets per day.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers? by Adam Sherk on December 1, 2009 In November Google announced a new format for Google News Sitemaps with several changes including new tags that provide additional detail on each submitted article.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 30, 2009

Beyond that, there are steps that publishers can take to help reduce the risk of being outranked for their own content: Require partners to link back to the original on every syndicated article, for example: This article originally appeared on Example.com: [direct link, ideally with the headline as the link text]. What you say?

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Adam Sherk

MAY 26, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Where Do You Want Your Social Media Press Releases to Live? Adam Sherk June 1, 2009 at 10:23 am Thanks for your input Maggie. However long-term it is much better to strengthen your own domain as opposed to someone else’s.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Image: betsyjean79 via Flickr , Creative Commons Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations, Journalism, Design, Digital, TV, Radio, Podcasts, Blogging, Social Networks, Newsfeeds, Affiliate Marketing, Web TV, SEO… Creative industries have evolved just as the environments, mediums, consumers and needs of our clients have evolved over time.

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 2, 2010

I looked at referral data for 2008, 2009 and 2010 to-date and for comparison also included Facebook and Digg. So what percentage of total site traffic came from Twitter and the other social sites? Nathan Joynt March 2, 2010 at 1:04 pm I wonder if these numbers correspond to the growth rate of these social networks.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 26, 2010

So I thought I’d take a look at some early examples of Facebook Open Graph integration on news sites. Not covered in my examples above is the fact that Open Graph protocol can also provide sites with additional reporting data. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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Koka Sexton

AUGUST 25, 2010

This is a prime example of parents wanting to to right by their children and at the same time becoming the butt of a joke that get’s printed in black and white. You’re a minority on Social Networks, but why? Well, like most people, you write to your local paper’s “know it all&# and ask them what they think.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 15, 2010

It is also interesting that despite that low score the profile is still in the 99.4th percentile: Perhaps @ColonelTribune is more popular among industry professionals (as an example of a great Twitter persona ) than typical users and news consumers. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 16, 2010

For example as news was breaking on the Chile earthquake a couple weeks ago, The New York Times created a Twitter List to pull together the latest information from a variety of sources. Last week in Wichita KS I did some examples using Twitter and YouTube+twitter and showed how that worked.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 17, 2010

For example when I went to the CNN page by searching “CNN” while on the Fox News page I ended up on this URL: There are multiple combinations that can occur. If you paste those funky URLs into a new browser tab they redirect to a better URL (in the CNN example www.facebook.com/cnn?ref=ts).

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This post is a great example of a charitable endeavor that is also concrete, as opposed to cosmetic. Why: it touched me deeply that Chuck (who has also appeared on #measurePR ) would share something so personal, and acknowledge at the same time how critical social networks can be as support systems. Read All About It!

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 16, 2010

In the rules of the promotion, or otherwise, you will not condition entry to the promotion upon taking any action on Facebook, for example, updating a status, posting on a profile or Page, or uploading a photo. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 3, 2011

Don’t let your social media activity die. Clearly, your new employer might have guidelines as to when you can get online and on social networks and when you can’t. I’m a poor example, but every time I did this, I felt much better. So I understand not being able to be active on SM during work hours.

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Koka Sexton

OCTOBER 3, 2008

This is a prime example of parents wanting to to right by their children and at the same time becoming the butt of a joke that get’s printed in black and white. You’re a minority on Social Networks, but why? Well, like most people, you write to your local paper’s “know it all&# and ask them what they think.

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