Adam Sherk

JANUARY 11, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk PEJ Study Shows Print Still Primary Source of Original News Reporting by Adam Sherk on January 11, 2010 The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released a study today of the modern news ecosystem, examining a week of news activity in Baltimore, MD.

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 3, 2010

Google has issued what they are calling an SEO Report Card , an effort to provide Google’s product teams with ideas on how they can improve their products’ pages using simple and accepted optimizations. Apparently, though, based on this SEO report card, Google themselves are not doing a very good job at setting up the redirects.

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Bill Hartzer

AUGUST 11, 2010

NASDAQ: SCOR) has just released a report on Twitter’s explosive growth worldwide. Indonesia reported the highest number of users, with 20.8 Here are the numbers from comScore: Visitation to Twitter.com by Global Regions - June 2010 vs. June 2009. comScore Releases August 2009 Search Engine Rankings comScore, Inc.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 19, 2009

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. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

MAY 19, 2009

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. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 27, 2009

According to a new report by comScore , Internet users in Singapore spend half of their time online using social and entertainment websites. This is the first public report of online usage in Singapore. One of the most notable aspects of the report is that people in Singapore spend more time sending instant messages.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

by Adam Sherk on September 17, 2009 Now that the improved Facebook Pages have been around for a while I wanted to check the level of engagement that major news sites are achieving with them. This is not surprising based on the reactions that Fox News reporting tends to generate from both sides of the political fence.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage of Site Traffic by Adam Sherk on October 23, 2009 Yesterday posts from eMarketer and Marketing Pilgrim called my attention to some interesting social media statistics put out by advertising network Chitika.

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Firebelly

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The study’s key findings include: 22% (108) of the primary corporations listed in the 2009 Fortune 500 have a public-facing corporate blog. The number one ranked company, Exxon Mobil, does not have a Twitter account. The insurance industry has the most Twitter accounts (13). The insurance industry has the most Twitter accounts (13).

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Search Marketing Dwarfs Social Media in Interactive Marketing Budgets by Adam Sherk on December 17, 2009 This week both Brian Solis and SEOMoz made reference to a recent Forrester report forecasting US interactive marketing budgets for the next five years.

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The Marketing Blog

MARCH 8, 2010

Quotes from the Money Life article Iffort’s report states that usage of Twitter will penetrate more organisations, and more firms and customers will start using this social networking tool.Conversations between users and brands which are managed by humans with an emotional quotient will continue to boost Indian marketing efforts.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 21, 2010

Conducted with Don Bates of George Washington University, the study measures the journalists’ use of and attitudes toward social media for researching and reporting stories. While it could be argued that some of the findings come down to common sense, there are some interesting statistics in the report.

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Idaconcpts

JANUARY 25, 2011

It wasn’t until 2009 that LivingSocial started the daily-deal business. However, things changed dramatically in December 2010 as Compete reported that Groupon had over 17,000 referring sites, while LivingSocial was under the 7,000 mark. This move had been tried earlier in August 2009 by Groupon and Gap. Share this on Facebook.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk An Early Look at News Media Twitter Lists: Not Much Traction by Adam Sherk on November 3, 2009 With all the buzz about Twitter Lists I thought I’d take a look at how some major news sites are doing so far with their own Lists. To reporters’ sources?

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Yahoo and Google were among the most frequently mentioned websites for online news, indicating that users see them as sources for news (be it original reporting or aggregation) and not just search vehicles. For the full findings on search engines and social media see section two of the Pew report.

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The Marketing Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

What it means is that you can get insights on your fan pages like visitor statistics, traffic sources, visitor country, keyword searches with all other powerful reporting & maps overlays etc. Then you need to set tracking images and generate custom code. * The generated code can be placed inside Facebook pages using the FBML application.

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Bill Hartzer

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

of search traffic came from Bing in August 2009. Here are some stats released in Chitika’s report: Search Share: Impressions August September October Google 81.80% 84.19% 84.99% Yahoo! Related posts: comScore Releases August 2009 Search Engine Rankings comScore, Inc. Over 8% of search engine users and 6.7% Tweet This!

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2010

In my ongoing look at mainstream media outlets and social media I have done multiple posts on news sites and Twitter, Facebook and Digg but I’ve yet to look at YouTube. But since the 21,839 subscribers reported in YouTube’s search results make it a top 5 news channel I included it in the table. that does include some news videos.

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Idaconcpts

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Bloomberg Businessweek joins the pack of critics with a July 2010 report claiming that “Gen Y lacks confidence about making financial decisions”. According to an August 2009 survey of US consumers by the American Bankers Association (ABA), online is now the No. Preferred Banking Method by Generation X and Y. 1 method of banking.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

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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Socialized

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Report spammers. Unfollow, block and report racists and pornographers. Don’t ask for Diggs. Don’t rely too heavily on retweeting other people’s content. Don’t tweet about pets. Unfollow anyone who tweets about teeth whitening products. Make the world a better place. Unfollow anyone who tweets about schemes to get more followers.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 10, 2009

2009 Report on American Consumers. Ok I admit it I am a bit of a data geek but I cant help myself when I see stats like this in a recent study titled How Much Information? zettabytes of total information used by Americans in their homes far exceeds storage or transmission capacity. Tweet This! Share this on Facebook.

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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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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 11, 2011

Should you care more about Digg submission than about comments? To add a reference point to your social mention tracking, create a Share of Voice report. Usually, Share of Voice reports are formatted as a pie chart , so you can easily see how you fare versus your competition. Are tweets more important than Facebook shares?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Without further ado, I now present to you the best internet marketing posts of 2009. The Online Consumer Engagement Value report idea is a good one. SEOmoz has looked at what works and reported on their findings. And like last year, I have a gift for you. Every year, I read hundreds (thousands?) He offers great tips here.

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 10, 2010

Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I report it here. comScore Core Search Report* February 2010 vs. January 2010 Total U.S. comScore Core Search Report* February 2010 vs. January 2010 Total U.S. comScore Expanded Search Query Report February 2010 vs. January 2010 Total U.S.

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Firebelly

MARCH 23, 2010

I also promised to share results from that report regarding why people become fans of businesses on Facebook in a future post. Have you experimented with discounts and promotions on your Facebook page? Chad Richards is the Social Program Manager at Firebelly Marketing.

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Firebelly

MARCH 17, 2010

This report from Chadwick Martin Bailey and iModerate also explored why people become fans in the first place. 51% of Facebook fans said they are more likely to purchase from at least a few brands they are fans of on Facebook. 60% said that being a Facebook fan of a brand would cause them to be more likely to recommend that brand to a friend.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 19, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk So Far so Good for Seattlepi.com by Adam Sherk on May 19, 2009 Hearst released some numbers this week on how things are going with seattlepi.com two months after moving to an online-only model. Total page views for those days were 1.5 million, 1.4 million and 1.5

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Adam Sherk

JULY 22, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Smart Move from Condé Nast: GQ and DETAILS Should Have Their Own Websites by Adam Sherk on July 22, 2009 There’s been a lot of coverage this week of Condé Nast bringing in McKinsey & Company to help them restructure the business, which hopefully will work out for them.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009). Reply Cancel reply Leave a Comment Be sure to wrap all code in <code></code> tags. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 28, 2010

The foremost solution released by the company in early 2009 was a reputation management toolkit for small businesses called StepRep. Report: Two Thirds of Small Businesses Plan to Increase Email and Social Media Marketing Spend in 2010 VerticalResponse recently did a survey to find out how small. Share this on del.icio.us. Tweet This!

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Bill Hartzer

APRIL 26, 2010

In the social networking category, Mark Zuckerberg, the Founder of Facebook , beat out Kevin Rose, the Founder of Digg. Kevin Rose, Founder, Digg. Matt Drudge, Founder, Drudge Report. Related posts: comScore Releases August 2009 Search Engine Rankings comScore, Inc. World: 1) Social Networking. NYSE: NWS) (MySpace ).

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

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. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

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. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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Firebelly

AUGUST 3, 2010

FOX 59 News in Indianapolis reported on the story and the Facebook wall comments escalated even further. The woman voiced her complaint on Facebook and on Ball Memorial Hospitals Facebook page. Others rallied around her and began posting comments on the Ball Memorial Hospital Facebook page as well.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 14, 2010

Unfortunately there are increasing reports of donation fraud online, so major news organizations are playing a vital role in directing people to credible, legitimate groups. 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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