Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 21, 2011

PRFilter Shows Press Release Buzzword Abuse Still Prevalent. Editorial SEO Tactics for the Newsroom. Press Release Optimization Checklist and Tips. Related posts: My Top Posts of 2010 on SEO, PR and Social Media for News and Sports. My Top 10 Posts of 2009 on News Media, SEO and Social Media.

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Kikolani

APRIL 28, 2010

Nominees for Best SEO Blog of 2010. Here are my favorite SEO (Search Engine Optimization) blogs out of the 22 nominees listed. Daily SEO Tip. Daily SEO Tip is a blog that covers everything from SEO, link building, social media, blogging, and keyword tools. A Sampling from Daily SEO Tip. GrokDotCom.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular NFL Teams on Twitter and Facebook: 2010 Season by Adam Sherk on September 15, 2010 With a new football season under way I thought I’d take a look again at the NFL teams that have attracted the largest following to their official Twitter profiles and Facebook pages. (..)

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 22, 2011

There are other benefits to blogging, but these are three of the biggest SEO benefits. 3 Ways A Blog Helps You SEO-Wise | Small Business Mavericks [link] Log in to Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. 3 Ways A Blog Helps You SEO-Wise | Small Business Mavericks [link] Log in to Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 1, 2011

Twice in the past year I’ve covered the most overused PR buzzwords and marketing speak and press release buzzword abuse. Now admittedly the best antidote for marketing speak in press releases is to explain things simply in clear, direct terms and let the media professionals take it from there.

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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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Study News Press Release Report 147

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 4, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk My Top 10 Posts of 2009 on News Media, SEO and Social Media by Adam Sherk on January 4, 2010 I was going to post this last week but then opted wisely for letting myself enjoy a holiday break. Here’s wishing everyone an interesting and productive 2010.

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 8, 2014

TopSEOs.com, a site that listed the “top SEO firms” in a list (for a fee) has been banned in Google. Companies looking to hire an SEO firm would look at the list, thinking that those ranked number one on the list were truly the TOP SEOs in the industry. January 2010: [link]. And, in my opinion, deceptive.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Well, there are several things you can do right now to improve your SEO. In just a couple of weeks, you can improve your SEO tremendously. Here are the top 5 ways to improve your SEO right now. Here are the top 5 ways to improve your SEO right now. Build quality inbound links and you’ll have staying SEO power.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

The Idea: “Co-op SEO&# The terminology came from one of our developers (Thanks, Dave ), but the model has been in place since our inception. That’s what we’ve dubbed, “Co-op SEO.&# I’m not an SEO expert, but I’ve learned from some of the best. How Does This Help You? Spread the net.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 18, 2012

5 Ways that Social Media Impacts SEO. SEO Metrics for Publishers: How are You Tracking and Measuring Success? I’d also like to give a shout-out to my press release buzzwords post from 2010 which continues to do well. Related posts: My Top Posts of 2011 on SEO, PR and Social Media for Publishers.

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Press Release SEO Digg Sports 119

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. Yahoo is probably using the temporary redirects for tracking, but this practice is interfering with the SEO value of the links.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 11, 2011

» 10 SEO Tactics That No Longer Work (If They Ever Did) Confused about SEO? Did you just buy a nifty SEO book, or download one for free, that promises to tell you everything there is to know about SEO? If your SEO guru or free e-book download is telling you to do these 10 things, fire him or throw the book away.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 20, 2011

» Are You Getting Bad Real Estate SEO Advice? Hat tip to Matt McGee for bringing this to my attention, but I have long thought that real estate agents and brokers were getting bad SEO advice. There are other things I’d recommend for SEO. But for SEO, I wouldn’t recommend it. Just so-so.

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Real Estate SEO Case Study Small Business 79

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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Examples News Press Release Embedding 102

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Four Steps To Optimize A News Release For Google News November 15th, 2010 Tweet Guest post by Erica Holt Please stop yawning Don’t worry. But what about SEO for news sites, particularly Google News?

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News Google SEO Postrank 274

Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 16, 2011

» How Q&A Sites Can Boost Your SEO SEOmoz has a great article on how Q&A sites can boost your SEO. All in all, I think Pavel put together a very good and very thorough analysis of Q&A sites and their SEO value. What’s The Best Discovery Engine?

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Small Business SEO Sites Case Study 79

Josh S Peters

MARCH 16, 2010

Home About eBooks Social Media and Internet Marketing Speaking Twitter Says You Are Here: Home » ORM , SEO , Social Media , Strategy » What’s THE most important part of Online Reputation Management (ORM)? Written on March 16, 2010 by Josh Peters in ORM , SEO , Social Media , Strategy 1 Comment - Leave a comment!

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Reputation Press Release SEO Lijit 209

Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

I guess you have to admire the automated attempt to transition from enterprise social media strategies to buying NFL replica jerseys: And at least the advertisement was well targeted to me since I’m interested in press release optimization and I’m a fan of PRWeb. My Top 10 Posts of 2009 on News Media, SEO and Social Media.

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Press Release Sports SEO Buy 111

Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 21, 2011

3 Ways A Blog Helps You SEO-Wise » How To Promote Your Business In 2011 When it comes to promoting a small business, you have to prepare for changes. Press releases – Write and publish a press release online every time your company does something remarkable.

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Small Business Press Release Social Bookmarking How To 161

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.

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Social Media Press Release Microblogging Survey 122

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 20, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Top 10 Reasons The New York Times is Really Putting up a Paywall by Adam Sherk on January 20, 2010 Today The New York Times made it official that they will be introducing a metered model starting in 2011. But I gave it a shot. I, among others, retweeted it.

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Press Release Digg News SEO 126

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. Adam Sherk August 9, 2010 at 8:42 am Thanks Amit.

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News Google Tips Press Release 158

Adam Sherk

JULY 9, 2013

To be clear the aim here is not to encourage sites to create content solely for SEO, or to take things to a content farm-like extreme. Press Release Optimization Checklist and Tips. Social Media Dominates 2010 PR Planning, But SEO Increasingly in the Mix.

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Research Content Hitwise Adwords 183

Adam Sherk

JULY 13, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Paywalls, Media Coverage and User Access: What’s a PR Pro to Do? by Adam Sherk on July 13, 2010 Being the savvy, well-connected PR pro that you are, you just helped bring about a great piece of editorial coverage in a major media outlet.

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Press Release SEO News Survey 141

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular News Sites on YouTube by Adam Sherk on August 31, 2010 YouTube is both a major opportunity and an interesting challenge for news sites. Jeff Melissa August 31, 2010 at 10:10 pm Indeed a worthwhile read. Might be interesting to investigate.

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Sites News YouTube Press Release 182

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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Survey Social Networking Engineering Research 140

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk How to Identify Your Own Top Trends by Adam Sherk on December 22, 2009 Yesterday Facebook shared its Top Status Trends of 2009 , providing insight into what terms most commonly occurred in users’ status updates. Best to you.

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Trends How To Digg Press Release 167

Adam Sherk

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? Alicia Keys knows how to do it.

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Social Media Network Marketing

JULY 1, 2010

Thursday, July 1, 2010 Social Media requires good SEO Management Social Media needs SEO [Search Engine Optimization] Management. The reason to work on SEO while managing and handling Social Media is so that your brand comes up ahead on the Google and other search engines. July 6, 2010 1:24 AM Pervara Kapadia said.

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SEO Social Media Engineering Reputation 76

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? by Adam Sherk on October 6, 2010 It is safe to say that most news sites are now experimenting with various forms of user engagement and content promotion through social media. Thanks for your post.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 13, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk 25 Major News Sites Ranked by Page Speed by Adam Sherk on April 13, 2010 Now that site speed is officially a Google ranking factor, site performance and page load time are important for SEO as well as usability. I just ran its numbers.

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Sites News Yahoo Journal 161

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

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Related posts: The Most Popular NFL Teams on Twitter and Facebook: 2010 Season The Most Popular NBA Teams on Twitter and Facebook The Most Popular MLB Teams on Twitter and Facebook NBA Playoff Teams Ranked by Facebook Page Engagement Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get the Most Engagement?

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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. Tip #14: Dirty Secret Every now and then, press releases work.

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Tips Publishing Press Release Syndication 102

Adam Sherk

APRIL 5, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular MLB Teams on Twitter and Facebook by Adam Sherk on April 5, 2010 A new baseball season is underway and we are in that wonderfully brief period when fans all over the country still believe this could actually be the year for their team.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 12, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Borrowing Content Was Happening Long Before Blogging by Adam Sherk on May 12, 2010 I was reading Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam’s piece on his time at Newsweek in the 1970s and this passage caught my attention: For me, Newsweek was like an upside-down journalism school, where (..)

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