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

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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. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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

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For example, take a look at the +1 Audience Report from the Google Webmaster Tools profile of a major fashion site. And even if Google+ is not a strong traffic driver or seemingly natural fit for a particular site, +1 activity has a direct and indirect impact on search engine visibility. Here are a few more examples.

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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. For example, creating a large extended footer with links to every site in your network, with anchor text that is clearly for SEO, is not the way to go. Recommended Tactics.

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8 Social Media Questions Publishers Should Be Asking Themselves

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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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Real-time Search Optimization for News Sites

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Real-time Search Optimization for News Sites by Adam Sherk on March 16, 2010 The major search engines are making real-time search a priority, resulting in good visibility opportunities for news sites especially for breaking news.

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Search Trend Optimization for Evergreen Content

Adam Sherk

For example yesterday I noticed this tweet from @YahooSearchData : I’m not sure what drove the sudden spike in search activity around “polenta&# but it is a perfect fit for sites that cover recipes, cooking and food-oriented topics. For more ways to track activity, see my post on Free Tools for Monitoring Hot Search Trends.

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Newsweek's Tim Geithner Interview Live on Facebook: Don't Forget.

Adam Sherk

This is a good example of how publishers are attempting to add more value to their official pages on social media sites, which is certainly needed as many of the pages are still fairly one-dimensional. But it’s also really important to direct Facebook users who may come looking for it to the right place.

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