Adam Sherk

article thumbnail

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.

Sites 105
article thumbnail

How to Identify Your Own Top Trends of 2009

Adam Sherk

Last week Twitter gave us their Top Twitter Trends of 2009 for categories like news events, people, movies, etc. Data like this is interesting to check out, and it can provide useful insights for marketers and content producers in getting a better understanding of user interest and activities in both search and social media.

Trends 167
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Why the News Business Isn't Profitable

Adam Sherk

But it’s those commercial queries that are so desirable to advertisers. When they’re already consuming content, it’s too late. Over 40% is spent with content. When people search, they’re in between places on the web. They’re going form point A to point B. That’s a great time to reach people with a commercial message.

News 121
article thumbnail

10 Quotes on the Apple iPad and the Business of News

Adam Sherk

The question, then, is whether newspaper publishers will do any better at monetizing mobile advertising than they have online. “The future of news is about distributing content as widely as possible and monetising not just content but relationships. Thing is, that’s going to be time consuming and expensive to make.

iPad 129
article thumbnail

Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage.

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage of Site Traffic by Adam Sherk on October 23, 2009 Yesterday posts from eMarketer and Marketing Pilgrim called my attention to some interesting social media statistics put out by advertising network Chitika.

Hitwise 124
article thumbnail

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. Like buttons, Open Graph tags (which much like Twitter formatting, need to be done right!) Not including @[brand] or listing a third party tool instead (e.g.

article thumbnail

Top 10 Reasons The New York Times is Really Putting up a Paywall

Adam Sherk

Coming up with a viable metered model that still allows a wide audience to discover and interact with the content – in the ways that they prefer – is just one step on a challenging road ahead. If we want the most up to date News, then Digg or even Twitter provide immediate News. Ask an optician and he will tell you why.