Adam Sherk

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10 Things That Expose Good Sites to Google Panda

Adam Sherk

Many are moving to setups in which the full content is accessible on the main page and that is the only URL that can be indexed. Viewability – advertising viewability has become a top priority for publishers, which has the consequence of altering the content-to-ad ratio above the fold.

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The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites

Adam Sherk

Even when the engines do a reasonable job of filtering out duplicates in their results, sites are essentially shooting themselves in the foot by splitting internal and inbound links to a particular piece of content across multiple URLs. Appending tracking codes to URLs (e.g. ?xid=rss xid=rss or ?cid=top-stories)

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The Fastest and Slowest News Sites in 2012

Adam Sherk

Note that for The Daily Mail, The Guardian and The Financial Times the PageSpeed tool was redirected to the URL for the US version of their home page. So the US URLs were used in the comparison. One-Year Gains and Losses.

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8 Critical SEO and Digital Marketing Opportunities

Adam Sherk

The open source nature of AMP is a plus but I’m not a fan of having to create separate URLs. The use of sponsored content and native advertising also continues to increase as publishers look for additional sources of revenue. App Indexing and App Store Optimization.

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8 Social Media Questions Publishers Should Be Asking Themselves

Adam Sherk

Tweet text formatting has improved since I wrote Make the Most of Your Retweet Buttons but I still regularly come across issues with: Missing URLs. This might relate to the packaging or even selection of content and it can tie into advertising sales and conversion rate optimization too.

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

Adam Sherk

Newspapers and magazines survive through advertising and newspaper sales. The advertising has gone elsewhere and they want to charge for News? UPDATE: For those interested in more actual information, NYTco. Ask an optician and he will tell you why. It happens. So Mr Murdoch and Co How are things in FairyLand?

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Google Page Speed Ratings One Year Later: News Sites Range from Up 27% to Down 73%

Adam Sherk

On news and content sites sudden, significant changes in page load time are often related to advertisements or third-party implementations. The 92 rating is actually for [link] which is the URL that the Google tool was redirected to). So which sites are now the best performers? April 2010 Change. 1 dailymail.co.uk 92 80 15.0%.

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