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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? For example Phoenix New Times, WGNTV and Seattle Weekly all have 0 followers as of today). Time appears to have the most active profile.

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Look at That, a Google+ Audience That is Largely Female

Adam Sherk

For example, take a look at the +1 Audience Report from the Google Webmaster Tools profile of a major fashion site. But in the first year of Google+ it has not been all that common to find audience data with women as the majority. Here are a few more examples.

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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. What is the right mix of diversification? How does social media impact SEO?

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Search Trend Optimization for Evergreen Content

Adam Sherk

For publishers that focus on evergreen content such as lifestyle topics the available trend data is much more limited. Search trend and social media data is useful for optimizing specific pieces, developing new content ideas and ongoing editorial planning. And don’t forget to identify your own top trends by looking at your data.

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Hey Sports Teams Quit Telling Me to LIKE your Facebook Posts

Adam Sherk

As a marketer I appreciate the use of a call to action to increase activity and engagement. Maybe I’ll do a quick study in a future post or perhaps someone like PageLever or EdgeRank Checker has good data on this. Here are some more recent examples. It is an effective tactic and there are plenty of good ways to do it.

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A Look at Muck Rack's Twitter Press Release Service, 51 Releases Later

Adam Sherk

search to get click data on each of those shortened URLs. reports from its search page are not very complete or accurate (you get better data on URLs you’ve personally shortened in your history when signed into bit.ly). The answer lies in how much additional value the services can provide in terms of exposure and activity.

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An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News.

Adam Sherk

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. You can jump to the end for the Takeaways ).

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