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DECEMBER 6, 2012

If you can't find out information in a general search (on Google , Bing , Yahoo or whatever), leverage your online social networks ( Twitter , Facebook , LinkedIn , tumblr , etc.) If you are truly interested in being successful in social media and digital marketing, there is a simple two-step process that you can take.

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Kikolani

JUNE 3, 2010

The Blogroll. I am not a huge fan of the blogroll. One of the pros is that you can direct traffic to your blog if you are listed on someone else’s blogroll which can help increase your rank. The con is if someone’s rank is not as high as yours, having them on your blogroll could hurt your rank. Tons of Ads.

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Saying It Social

JUNE 16, 2010

New Service #1: ‘How to Use LinkedIn: Setting up a Profile and Beyond’ Webinar At Saying It Social we acknowledge that LinkedIn is one of the most important social networking sites for business. However, it is not one of the sites that we manage for our clients. Let me explain.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Metro will provide Foursquare with location-specific editorial content such as reviews, tips and articles on points of interest. With content in the NYT Article Archive dating back to 1851, there is a world of fascinating stories that could be shared. I’d love to see a partnership between The New York Times and Foursquare.

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Saying It Social

JULY 12, 2010

I also finally joined Go Articles today. In fact, I set up a writer account for myself as a Real Estate Resource and separately as a Social Media Marketing Resource. In fact, I set up a writer account for myself as a Real Estate Resource and separately as a Social Media Marketing Resource. One day, four new sites.

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Kikolani

JULY 4, 2010

I know that most of my readers are well aware of the reasons to love CommentLuv , including its great benefits to blog owners, readers, and especially commenters with the ability to promote blog posts and articles on article directories and networks such as HubPages, Squidoo, EzineArticles, & more. Related Posts.

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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? Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

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Adam Sherk

MAY 22, 2009

In addition, don’t hyperlink the headline on the article page – after all, your reader is already there! In addition, don’t hyperlink the headline on the article page – after all, your reader is already there! Using the exact article title in the anchor text of links doesn’t always happen either.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Article Ranking Factors within a Story Cluster While there are a wide range of ranking factors these four were highlighted: Fresh and New – Priority is given to articles that are recent, substantial, original and focused on the topic. a lot of subsequent articles linking to a particular source or referencing it within editorial text).

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Saying It Social

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Many times you will have articles or videos that were sent out a year earlier that now deliver more backlinks than they did originally. Organic search has a much higher click through rate than PPC, because it has a higher trust factor. And this can equate to 3-8 times more traffic in the top spot. Organic has stick and duplication properties.

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Saying It Social

MAY 1, 2010

Fortunately, with a little strategic planning and implementation of some very helpful tools, you can accomplish your social networking/social media marketing tasks for the day in a very short amount of time. Blogs lend so many benefits to a social media marketing program that they really can’t be overlooked.

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Saying It Social

APRIL 23, 2010

Chris Mechanic of WebMechanix explains from a Search Engine Optimization standpoint: From: [link] Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit April 23, 2010 - Posted by akstout18 | Uncategorized | first page of google , google search , search engine optimization , seo , social media for business , social media marketing 5 Comments » Great article.

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Saying It Social

JUNE 16, 2010

Send an interesting article, based on what you know about a contact’s business needs, industry trends, or other interests. It works especially well if the article addresses something you two discussed when you initially met or if it indirectly promotes something your business offers. Leave a comment Click here to cancel reply.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

by Adam Sherk on December 1, 2009 In November Google announced a new format for Google News Sitemaps with several changes including new tags that provide additional detail on each submitted article. The fourth new tag is the tag, which allows publishers to specify the title of each article.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 24, 2010

Perhaps the other sites have fresher related articles, but between free agent news and a “30 for 30” documentary debuting today ESPN does have current content for the query. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

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Adam Sherk

JULY 13, 2010

The client is thrilled, you’ve won the praise and envy of your colleagues, all is well…except that online the article is behind a paywall so hardly anyone will ever see it. There is a lot of discussion these days about paywalls, metered models, paytags for individual articles and the like.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 9, 2009

In looking at syndicated content on Yahoo News, most of the syndicated articles do not include attribution links (each news source likely has to request or provide them), but among those that do exist there is a problem. The Yahoo attribution links do not point directly to the original article URLs.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 13, 2010

To take the comparison a step further, I also ran Page Speed on the top 10 sites’ lead article. Article Source Page Speed Score (article) 1 Yahoo! News moved it to the top of the group for articles and knocked Guardian.co.uk Both news.yahoo.com and its lead article at the moment got scores of 83.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2010

The Economist The Economist has multiple customized tabs for subscription, featured articles and a news quiz: Fox News Fox News offers a more visual and interactive experience through its “Fun Stuff” tab: Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune uses a welcome tab to highlight sections and features from its main site: Yahoo!

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 6, 2010

Some visitors are likely clicking through to the full articles on Newsweek.com and then commenting there and/or sharing the newsweek.com URLs, which is also a good thing. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

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Saying It Social

AUGUST 24, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials How to Get People to Your Social Sites and Keep them Coming Back You have all of these great social sites but nobody knows about them! Here are some ways to drive people to your social sites and then keep them engaged.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 24, 2008

Ok the reference is in your 2005 E:CO article, ‘Stories from the Frontier’ - this passage… By Patrick Lambe. Social Network Analysis. (10). Cross, Andrew Parker, Rob Cross: The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations. www.straitsknowledge.com.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 26, 2010

The Like button does appear on their article template: But at least on my computer it was a little slow to load, and once loaded it added some extra white space before the start of the editorial text. This ReadWriteWeb article is a good resource: Facebook Open Graph: The Definitive Guide For Publishers, Users and Competitors.

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Saying It Social

JUNE 3, 2010

KnowEm also offers paid plans, from just signing up and registering you at 150 sites, to a full-featured plan which also fills in all profile details, complete with pictures, at 100 to 300 different networking sites. namechk : Covering 72 major social networking sites, namechk is simple, fast, and easy to use.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! How “popularity” is determined is not specifically defined, but it is likely a simple metric like page views. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2009

For news sites, the publication date and a photo can be added to Yahoo search results for articles and opinion pieces, as shown in this example: To take advantage of the enhanced news results, publishers can either use RDFa markup to embed the news data in their content, or use a NewsML feed to send the data privately to Yahoo.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 30, 2009

Related posts: A Look at Muck Rack’s Twitter Press Release Service, 51 Releases Later The Most Overused Buzzwords and Marketing Speak in Press Releases Where Do You Want Your Social Media Press Releases to Live? Great article! This video really gets across the thoughts behind the merger better than any traditional press release could.

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Akamai Marketing

MARCH 31, 2011

My favorite tidbit of info: 68% of consumers who posted a complaint or negative review on a social networking or ratings/reviews site got a response. Share and Enjoy: Tags: customer service , social media , suggestions No Comments Start the ball rolling by posting a comment on this article! Holy SCHMOLY!

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

What sections, special features, individual articles, etc. What types of content generated the most social media sharing and inbound links? Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! were most (and least) popular?

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Sharing and discussing content is a key component of Google Buzz, so it’s a natural fit for article promotion and audience development. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 26, 2010

According to Digg’s search tool 1,549 Colts articles have been submitted, with only eight being promoted to the front page and three receiving more than 500 diggs. That compares with 1,645 articles submitted, 11 promoted and two with 500+ diggs for the Saints. Advantage: SAINTS …At the half, the Saints head into the locker room ahead.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

In other cases no headline or descriptive text is provided, as in this example from Time : On this Silicon Alley Insider article, clicking the Twitter link in the share toolbar brings up nothing but the full length URL, which is interesting because a shortened bit.ly What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Saying It Social

JUNE 3, 2010

Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit June 3, 2010 - Posted by akstout18 | Facebook , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking | Facebook , facebook account settings , facebook personal profile , facebook privacy settings One blogger likes this post 11 Comments » [.]

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 11, 2010

As for user activity, in going through all of the NBC Local profiles most of the automatically submitted articles have not attracted a high volume of diggs. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 1, 2009

The major engines all produce some form of hot topic/trend list, and several third-party and social media sites do as well. You can also use keyword and reputation monitoring tools, real-time search tools and popular/meme lists for articles, tweets, social media submissions, etc.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 8, 2010

To see what type of attribution Newser is providing, I picked a random article from the sources grid on their home page today: Oprah Ditches Daytime for New Evening Show. In spot checking articles I didn’t come across any that didn’t have at least the one attribution link in the sidebar. It’s always there.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 8, 2009

An article can be linked from as many sections and locations on the site as desired, but it should only exist on one unique, permanent URL. But when the search engines encounter the same article on multiple sites it is likely that one version will be given prominence, and it may not always be the original. Syndication.

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