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

Adam Sherk

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. Unfortunately I discovered that the “total clicks” figures bit.ly

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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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JVC Facebook Page Sweepstakes a Big Success. But Does it Violate.

Adam Sherk

According to Ruder Finn the page currently has a daily active user base of over 10,000 fans. In the rules of the promotion, or otherwise, you will not condition entry to the promotion upon taking any action on Facebook, for example, updating a status, posting on a profile or Page, or uploading a photo. As of today it has 36,782 fans.

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