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

Adam Sherk

You can also use Topsy Analytics to compare profiles, domains or keywords and see what content has received the most links. You can also use Google+ Ripples to examine shares and comments for a specific URL or Google+ post and see how it spread. Please let me know in the comments and I’ll expand the list as appropriate.

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My Top Posts of 2012 on Inbound Marketing and Audience Development

Adam Sherk

Here are my top 10 posts of 2012 by pageviews: The Best Free Tools for Twitter Analytics. Beyond Facebook Insights: Useful Facebook Analytics Tools. The Facebook analytics tools post is actually from December 2011 but since it was a top performer this year I’m letting it make the list. 5 Ways that Social Media Impacts SEO.

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My Top Posts of 2011 on SEO, PR and Social Media for Publishers

Adam Sherk

Beyond Facebook Insights: Useful Facebook Analytics Tools. Is Using Facebook Comments Good for Publishers? The post on Facebook analytics tools did well considering I just published it last week. In checking out Google Analytics one thing I like about my top 10 is there were multiple paths to success.

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AOL Newsroom: A Model for the Future or Shades of 2001?

Adam Sherk

by Adam Sherk on February 23, 2010 There is an interesting article in BusinessWeek on how AOL is utilizing software and analytics data in an effort to match content with user interests and monetize it more successfully. Are you sure you want to write that article, Dave? Is this a good thing? Done right, I say absolutely.

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Hearst Skiff Reader Looks Cool

Adam Sherk

My professional, analytical opinion is it looks pretty darn good. Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Hearst Skiff Reader Looks Cool by Adam Sherk on January 7, 2010 Hearst’s Skiff Reader is being unveiled at CES this week. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

Adam Sherk

That’s not an easy question to answer without having access to each site’s analytics data and knowing their goals and objectives. PostRank counts “engagement events” which it defines as individual activities such as a tweet, like, comment, digg, RSS view, etc. So which news sites are getting the most out of their social media efforts?

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5 Ways to Deal with Seasonal Dips in Search Engine Traffic

Adam Sherk

Bolster your best stuff – Dig into your analytics data and determine which sections and content types tend to perform best in summer. It’s not easy to chase search trends as there is a danger of always ending up one step behind. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?