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Beyond Facebook Insights: Useful Facebook Analytics Tools

Adam Sherk

What are the best third-party tools for advanced Facebook analytics? It is fair to say that Facebook is getting better at providing this data itself; the latest version of Facebook Insights offers a wider range of data than ever before. With that in mind here are some Facebook analytics tools to experiment with: PageLever.

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10 Things That Expose Good Sites to Google Panda

Adam Sherk

Viewability – advertising viewability has become a top priority for publishers, which has the consequence of altering the content-to-ad ratio above the fold. Related posts: Google Buzz and News Sites: Good Potential But Facebook Still the Better Play. It is critical to maintain a substantial amount of editorial content above the fold.

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Why the News Business Isn't Profitable

Adam Sherk

But it’s those commercial queries that are so desirable to advertisers. Accordingly, AOL has (once again) become an important venue for advertisers while also reaping the benefits of strong search rankings — after all, people are searching for all that commercial content. When people search, they’re in between places on the web.

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How to Identify Your Own Top Trends of 2009

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Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk How to Identify Your Own Top Trends by Adam Sherk on December 22, 2009 Yesterday Facebook shared its Top Status Trends of 2009 , providing insight into what terms most commonly occurred in users’ status updates. This post will difinitly help me with my advertising website.

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8 Social Media Questions Publishers Should Be Asking Themselves

Adam Sherk

How much Facebook integration is too much? A high degree of Facebook integration can feel a bit like being assimilated into the Borg, but the reality is there is a lot of audience across all demographics there so experimentation is certainly worthwhile. Exceeding 140 characters and forcing the user to rework the tweet text.

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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. On the iPhone, you can sell news apps through the App Store; you can upsell specific pieces of content to people within your apps; and you can sell advertising within those applications.

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

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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.

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