Adam Sherk

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The Best Free (or Cheap) Tools for Blogger and Influencer Outreach

Adam Sherk

For publishers it typically involves identifying users that are sharing, discussing and linking to content from your brands and their competitors, and about specific topics. You can also sort and analyze your own followers to get a better understanding of the potential contact points you already have, or take a look at competing brands.

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What Famous TV Catchphrases Can Teach You About Enterprise SEO

Adam Sherk

Analytics and reporting are critical. Successes like significantly increasing YoY non-branded search traffic or effectively leveraging social media for SEO are actually really cool. Prioritizing recommendations helps to ensure that the most important things get attention. “Dyn-o-mite!” Evans, Good Times. “Aaay!”

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25 Random Observations about #MozCon Speakers

Adam Sherk

Joanna Lord ā€“ Joanna seems genuinely passionate about building customer loyalty, transparency and some of the specific marketing efforts that big brands have undertaken. Annie Cushing ā€“ Annie is awesome, and a serious analytics and Excel wiz. If I had a business that was getting involved in video marketing Iā€™d want his help.

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5 Ways to Deal with Seasonal Dips in Search Engine Traffic

Adam Sherk

Bolster your best stuff ā€“ Dig into your analytics data and determine which sections and content types tend to perform best in summer. Reach out ā€“ Youā€™ve been meaning to get more involved in brand and content awareness building activities such as social media marketing; nowā€™s the time.

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Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

Adam Sherk

Thatā€™s not an easy question to answer without having access to each siteā€™s analytics data and knowing their goals and objectives. In looking at these figures it is important to note that sites with larger audiences have greater opportunities for engagement, so bigger brands are likely to have larger numbers.

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SEO Metrics for Publishers: How are You Tracking and Measuring Success?

Adam Sherk

I’ll leave the in-depth answer to the analytics experts and Excel ninjas out there (along those lines a good recent post is Ian Lurie’s SEO Analytics, Middle Earth-Style ). When it comes to analytics everything is relative. So what are the best ways to track and measure success? Primary Success Metrics.

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Which News Sites Have the Most Valuable Facebook Pages?

Adam Sherk

News sites utilize Facebook Pages to increase brand visibility, promote content, interact with users and drive traffic back to their main sites. But how much are these pages really worth to them, and which news sites are getting the most value for their efforts? The CPM can be adjusted between $1 and $25.

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