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SEO Guidelines for Sponsored Content and Partner Links

Adam Sherk

Sponsored content in various forms is growing in popularity as publishers seek additional sources of revenue. Done well it can be a good fit for both publishers and advertisers, and dare I say even add value for users. It does not apply to instances in which regular editorial content is given a sponsor treatment.

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10 Things That Expose Good Sites to Google Panda

Adam Sherk

Google Panda was designed to go after sites with a high volume of thin or low-quality content (among other things) in an effort to improve the overall strength of the search results. But the unfortunate reality is that with just about every Panda update well-established brands with good content get caught in the filter.

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The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites by Adam Sherk on October 8, 2009 Although search engines keep improving on their ability to deal with duplicate content, this continues to be one of the main SEO issues facing news and content sites.

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FoxNews.com Has Highest Customer Satisfaction Rating Among News Sites – By Far

Adam Sherk

.” That sounds like is mostly about content to me. ” That describes user experience as opposed to content. The Huffington Post’s “ad heavy” description aligns with the ASCI study’s findings on advertising on news sites. Not a surprising assessment as HuffPo is not exactly a simple, streamlined site.

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Hey, I Got the Lead Sentence in a Spammy Scraper Article

Adam Sherk

Instead it seems I’d been given the honor of being in the first sentence of a spam article that had scraped together a bunch of random content. I’m not going to link to it but it was on a subdomain of bloglines.co.za. It really is an epidemic. Related posts: Great Example of a Multimedia News Article from ESPN.com.

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8 Social Media Questions Publishers Should Be Asking Themselves

Adam Sherk

It comes down to effective selection, placement and formatting of social buttons on all key templates, and customizing those elements for different types of content. One interesting takeaway was the user base and types of content that do well in Social Reader can be quite different from the main site. How does social media impact SEO?

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Social Sharing: The New Coffee Table Magazine Spread

Adam Sherk

Content, in all its forms, is more than information: It’s part of our identity. Magazines and books have a physical presence that can remain in the home or office for months or even years, while Internet content and ads can disappear into cyberspace in an instant. Print publications give us a feeling of permanence.

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