Adam Sherk

JANUARY 7, 2010

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. My professional, analytical opinion is it looks pretty darn good.

Press Release 101

Press Release Syndication Blogroll iPad 101

Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

The referral to the coded URL would still be passed to the site’s analytics software but users would see the canonical URL. Related posts: Will Publishers Add Cross-Domain Rel=Canonical to Syndication Deals? Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the Canonical URL Tag.

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URL Syndication Newsletter RSS 114

Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk AOL Newsroom: A Model for the Future or Shades of 2001? Are you sure you want to write that article, Dave?

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Hitwise Press Release Adsense Syndication 110

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 25, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk 5 Ways to Deal with Seasonal Dips in Search Engine Traffic by Adam Sherk on August 25, 2009 July and August are a time when many content sites see a seasonal dip in all forms of traffic, including search engine referrals.

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Engineering Hitwise Health Care Press Release 102

Adam Sherk

MAY 1, 2012

When it comes to SEO publishers need to understand and effectively communicate progress and success. 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 ). Sounds good, but are your efforts working?

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Metrics SEO Publishing Analytics 164

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? That’s not an easy question to answer without having access to each site’s analytics data and knowing their goals and objectives. So which news sites are getting the most out of their social media efforts?

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Sites News Postrank Engagement 176

Adam Sherk

JULY 15, 2013

Annie Cushing – Annie is awesome, and a serious analytics and Excel wiz. Related posts: Pro PR Tips: 100 PR Tips from Rafe Needleman Published as a Book. Nathalie Nahai – Web psychology, specifically as it relates to gender and culture differences, is something I don’t know much about, so this was an interesting one.

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SEO Tips Startup Compete 148

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 12, 2011

As I covered in my post on Twitter tips for publishers the goal is have new content surface in news search, real-time search and social search all around the same time, all of which helps with regular Web search visibility too. Make effective use of linking – most publishers aren’t shy about internal and cross-networking linking.

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SEO Hitwise comScore Adwords 198

Adam Sherk

MARCH 2, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Survey: Twitter Less than 1% of Traffic to Newspapers and Magazines; Facebook 1% by Adam Sherk on March 2, 2010 For my presentation on Twitter Marketing Tactics at SMX West this week I wanted to get a sense of just how much traffic Twitter is driving to major news sites.

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Survey Twitter Digg Hitwise 193

Adam Sherk

MAY 17, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Which News Sites Have the Most Valuable Facebook Pages? Only the news organizations themselves can fully answer that question; their own analytics data combined with internal estimates of the value of fans and various actions will paint the clearest picture.

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