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The Wrap, Newser and Content Aggregation: How Much Attribution is.

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Wrap, Newser and Content Aggregation: How Much Attribution is Enough? To me the real question is: when one site aggregates another’s content, how much attribution is enough? Personally I think aggregated stories should always include an inline attribution link.

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Thank you Google, for the Antithesis of a More Social Network

Waxing UnLyrical

[Ed: I know we've had a LOT of posts on Google+ here recently. The first reaction to all the talk around Google+ and it’s Facebook-killing armor was, “Oh God, not another one.&#. Google+ cuts out the noise by adopting the “follow/unfollow&# conundrum, very similar to Twitter. One more time. Ubiquity.

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Google News Optimization Tips

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google News Optimization Tips by Adam Sherk on September 3, 2009 This week Google put out a video to give publishers more information on how Google News works and how best to optimize for it. This is data driven and not an “arbitrary decision.”

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I Hope News Corp Does Block its Content from Google

Adam Sherk

Believe it or not, being indexed in Google and Google News is actually good for news sites. Google-less? Related posts: Video Interview: Rupert Murdoch Doesn’t Like Search So Much The Wrap, Newser and Content Aggregation: How Much Attribution is Enough? – If You de-Index Will They Still Come?

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Borrowing Content Was Happening Long Before Blogging

Adam Sherk

It sounds a lot like the practices of some industry blogs and news aggregators today. Shifting from poaching content to paying for it, it really is no wonder that the AP seems so threatened by Google. So “borrowing” content isn’t a Web-only phenomenon, it’s just a lot easier to spot now. What’s a news agency to do?

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Blogging Upstream

Waxing UnLyrical

Go ahead, Google “women over 40”: fashion and beauty tips… sexiest women over 40… infertility… Oprah’s ‘Project Makeover,’ etc. But Tootzypop is part of the Glam Media network of sites, and I know from placement on Glam verticals that it’s our posts on exactly these topics that tend to get the highest aggregated traffic.

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Pew Research Survey: Findings on Search Engines, Social Networks.

Adam Sherk

Yahoo and Google were among the most frequently mentioned websites for online news, indicating that users see them as sources for news (be it original reporting or aggregation) and not just search vehicles. Related posts: Google Social Search: Are You in Your Target Audiences’ Social Circles?

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