Adam Sherk

AUGUST 11, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Pro PR Tips: 100 PR Tips from Rafe Needleman Published as a Book by Adam Sherk on August 11, 2009 Yesterday I received a copy of Rafe Needleman ’s Pro PR Tips in the mail from ITDatabase.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get the Most Engagement? 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.

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Buffer Social

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

When we were first getting started as a student club in 2009, I remember initially struggling to get my peers to join. On top of getting to honor their work, we always see a bump in website traffic during nominations and after the list is published, and find that many new members discover our community thanks to this list.

Brands 82

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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.

Sites 105

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Related posts: My Top 10 Posts of 2009 on News Media, SEO and Social Media Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About Reliability of Information Where Do You Want Your Social Media Press Releases to Live? Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 20, 2009

This is encouraging news for publishers as previously once an article was indexed in Google News no changes or updates to it would be registered. This is encouraging news for publishers as previously once an article was indexed in Google News no changes or updates to it would be registered.

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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. Not sure what SearchMonkey is?

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Pew Research News Survey: Findings on Search Engines, Social Networks and Twitter by Adam Sherk on September 13, 2010 The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press has published the results of its latest survey on news consumption and related topics.

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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. Creating textual descriptions and transcripts is helpful.

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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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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

7 comments… read them below or add one } Marty November 19, 2009 at 6:48 am Great post. November 22, 2009 at 6:50 pm Great info. Mike November 24, 2009 at 2:00 pm Interesting quick read, thanks for the info. Really interesting stuff, I wonder how these match up with franchise valuation? Thanks for sharing.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 24, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Do Google’s Expanded Domain Results Apply to News and Video Listings? This gives publishers the opportunity for greater exposure to users looking for content from their specific site (and who may not be familiar with the “site:” search operator).

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 1, 2009

2 comments… read them below or add one } Gary Gregory October 9, 2009 at 4:51 pm Thank you for the list! Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme. Does this work? Very helpful as I only used a couple of these previously.

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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. Nice roundup.

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

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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.

Hitwise 124

Hitwise Social Media Digg Survey 124

Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites Not Making Much Use of Static FBML on Facebook Pages by Adam Sherk on June 9, 2010 Between privacy issues, a sweaty CEO and technical problems with its “Like&# buttons Facebook is having a rough time lately.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Make the Most of Your Retweet Buttons by Adam Sherk on February 25, 2010 In working on my presentation for the Twitter Marketing Tactics session at SMX West next week I’ve been looking at the various types of share and retweet buttons used on news 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? The headline/title tag tip is also included in their Help for Publishers guidelines on article titles ). But linking with the article headline is something that publishers should do when possible.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 19, 2009

It’s also worth noting that a lot of major publishers still get a huge portion of their traffic from direct navigation. 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

It’s also worth noting that a lot of major publishers still get a huge portion of their traffic from direct navigation. 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 29, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Your Mom’s Coming to Facebook, But She May Not Stick Around by Adam Sherk on May 29, 2009 Inside Facebook published some new statistics this week on Facebook’s US audience growth over the last 60 days.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The usual caveats: Social media isn’t a popularity contest and reach does not equal influence, engagement or action These figures will quickly be out-of-date (they probably were before I could hit the “publish” button) But those things aside, it is interesting to take a snapshot at various times for the purposes of comparison.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 14, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Corporate Social Media Marketing is about Two-Way Communication by Adam Sherk on April 14, 2009 It’s a simple concept, but one that many companies are still struggling with in terms of practical implementation.

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JANUARY 19, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Alicia Keys Facebook Page: I’d Sign Up if She Asked Me All Cool by Adam Sherk on January 19, 2010 Want to use your Facebook Page to build out your mailing list? Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 30, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Videos in Press Releases are Cool – If They Provide Meaningful Content by Adam Sherk on July 30, 2009 Executive quotes in press releases are notorious for lacking any kind of substantial information. Greg Jarboe July 31, 2009 at 6:03 pm Great example, Adam.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 12, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Daily Show Visits The New York Times by Adam Sherk on June 12, 2009 I couldn’t resist sharing this great video from The Daily Show of Jason Jones visiting The New York Times. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 12, 2010

Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the Canonical URL Tag So Far so Good for Seattlepi.com Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

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. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme. Which News Sites Have the Most Valuable Facebook Pages?

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News Engagement Facebook Press Release 104

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 21, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About Reliability of Information by Adam Sherk on January 21, 2010 Yesterday Cision released the results of their Social Media and Online Usage Study, a survey of social media usage by print and Web journalists.

Social Media 122

Social Media Press Release Microblogging Survey 122

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. In April, its first full month of operation, seattlepi.com had 4.3

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 11, 2010

This is particularly appealing for publishers with content that may be of interest to specific audiences as opposed to the wider Digg user base. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme. Will it work with local news? NBC is trying to find out.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

It would also be interesting to see how Microsoft addresses the financial realities of trying to extend such an arrangement to a larger group of publishers. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme. Believe it or not, being indexed in Google and Google News is actually good for news sites.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google Social Search: Are You in Your Target Audiences’ Social Circles? Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 14, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Great Example of a Multimedia News Article from ESPN.com by Adam Sherk on August 14, 2009 Recently I wrote about the importance of including meaningful content in videos embedded in press releases.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 13, 2009

Reviews in particular offer a good opportunity for publishers as many content sites produce multiple types of reviews on a regular basis. Google JavaScript Changes Put Publishers in Violation of Sponsored Link Guidelines Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers?

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 7, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Hearst Skiff Reader Looks Cool by Adam Sherk on January 7, 2010 Hearst’s Skiff Reader is being unveiled at CES this week. It’s an interesting project and it is good to see publishers trying new things, however slow to move they may have been to-date.

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