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News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers?

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers? Time appears to have the most active profile. Why do you think it is that none of the media accounts actively contribute to the discussion, as you pointed out, with comments and Diggs themselves?

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8 Social Media Questions Publishers Should Be Asking Themselves

Adam Sherk

but monitoring behavior and activity often proves valuable. How do we maintain active social outposts without sacrificing on-site community? The fact that sharing links is a large part of social media activity is a tremendous advantage for publishers. Things like reach, activity, engagement and sentiment are all worth examining.

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Link Building Tactics for Publishers

Adam Sherk

These activities typically involve collaboration with multiple groups including tech, edit and audience development as well as the SEO, PR and social media teams. that will draw interest, activity and ultimately links. Bloggers tend to be the best candidates for outreach activities that can lead to inbound links.

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Google+ Engagement for News Sites: Top Performers and One-Year Growth Rates

Adam Sherk

Personally I like to look at the per post averages as this helps to level the playing field and provide a general sense of how much user activity and engagement typically occurs. However this comparison gets skewed by a few pages with fairly limited post activity. Also I was once again unable to find an active Google+ page for CNN.

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News Organizations on Google+: Which Pages Get the Most Engagement?

Adam Sherk

Instead I’ll focus on some basic signals of user activity and engagement: the number of 1+’s, shares and comments on each page. To pull the activity and engagement figures I used All my + , an interesting tool created by Gerwin Sturm. But their fan base is not nearly as active on Google+ as it is on Facebook. The Fiscal Times 0.12

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The Most Popular and Active News Brands on Instagram

Adam Sherk

Now that Instagram web profiles have been around for a few months I thought I’d check in on the participation and activity of major news brands. I keep coming across things like the Simply Measured study showing that 59% of top brands are now active on Instagram and the news that Instagram has surpassed 100 million active users.

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The Best Free (or Cheap) Tools for Blogger and Influencer Outreach

Adam Sherk

All my + is a useful tool for evaluating the activity and engagement of specific profiles, as I did in my post on Google+ engagement for news sites. It is more popular in SEO circles for managing link building activities, but they also have a PR & Social Media tool that offers good functionality for blogger and influencer relations.

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