Firebelly

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Here are 5 articles to help you understand social searchs relevancy to your business. For many news pages, social media has become the number one referrer and we are seeing some evidence that websites in the travel vertical and other such experience/story based content websites are moving towards the same pattern.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

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. Three digit URLs are not required if you submit an XML news sitemap.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

News publishers are all too familiar with the fact that Google News doesn’t always do such a great job of favoring original sources in its story clusters. It is not usual to see a syndicated, aggregated or simply re-covered version of an article gain prominent visibility over the original.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 13, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk 25 Major News Sites Ranked by Page Speed by Adam Sherk on April 13, 2010 Now that site speed is officially a Google ranking factor, site performance and page load time are important for SEO as well as usability. So how well do major news sites perform in these areas?

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Adam Sherk

JULY 28, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Article Highlights: Good for Users, Good for Search Engines by Adam Sherk on July 28, 2009 Yesterday Steve Rubel pointed out how the article highlights on sites like CNN.com and iMedia Connection are a good time saver for him.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers? 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.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 22, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines? 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

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites by Adam Sherk on October 8, 2009 Although search engines keep improving on their ability to deal with duplicate content, this continues to be one of the main SEO issues facing news and content sites.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The good news is that each site has eventually been able to recover. Here are 10 things that cause good sites to get caught up in Google Panda: Templates with limited text – many content sites have certain non-article templates that by design have relatively little editorial text. and recovered with Panda 4.1:

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Firebelly

JULY 23, 2010

Find him on Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn Posted | Permalink Reblog (0) | | Digg This | Save to del.icio.us | TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Social Media News: Top 5 Stories of the Week : Comments Verify your Comment Previewing your Comment Posted by: | This is only a preview.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 24, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Do Google’s Expanded Domain Results Apply to News and Video Listings? But do the expanded results apply to the embedded news and video listings in the SERPs? So a handful of examples from one individual does not make for a comprehensive sampling.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Yahoo Adds Enhanced News Results to SearchMonkey by Adam Sherk on August 31, 2009 On Friday Yahoo announced new additions to its SearchMonkey enhanced results, including options for news content. Not sure what SearchMonkey is? Not sure what SearchMonkey is?

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Some are newer, others are longstanding, but I wanted to gather them together and focus on the benefits for news and content sites. Traditional websites will continue to be the primary digital home for news organizations, but the lines are shifting and more change is coming. Hosted and Mobile-Specific Article Formats.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites Not Making Much Use of Static FBML on Facebook Pages by Adam Sherk on June 9, 2010 Between privacy issues, a sweaty CEO and technical problems with its “Like&# buttons Facebook is having a rough time lately. The short answer? Not so many.

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 16, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Real-time Search Optimization for News Sites by Adam Sherk on March 16, 2010 The major search engines are making real-time search a priority, resulting in good visibility opportunities for news sites especially for breaking news.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 26, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News Sites by Adam Sherk on April 26, 2010 There has been a lot of news and reaction around Facebook’s new additions to the Facebook Platform: Social Plugins, the Open Graph protocol and the Graph API.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 3, 2013

This topic has been in the news recently with Google first issuing a reminder that any links within sponsored content should not pass PageRank. For those articles only the first warning (do not let sponsor links pass PageRank) applies. In addition, do not include sponsored content in your Google News sitemap.

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 9, 2011

If you are inspired to add a comment with your thoughts, please visit Why Facebook and Twitter are Old News in your browser. Related articles you may enjoy: Did Twitter Kill Blellow? Syndicating FourSquare to Twitter. How to Delete and Send Twitter DMs in Bulk.

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Laurel Papworth

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Why traditional media editors will turn to bloggers for articles in the future. If you are managing a newspaper or TV station or radio, will you contract out work to a freelance journalist… or will you ask a known expert that blogs to write the article? You want me to write an article based on this but longer?

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk An Early Look at News Media Twitter Lists: Not Much Traction by Adam Sherk on November 3, 2009 With all the buzz about Twitter Lists I thought I’d take a look at how some major news sites are doing so far with their own Lists. Nice roundup.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But at this early stage, how strong are the marketing opportunities for news sites? Sharing and discussing content is a key component of Google Buzz, so it’s a natural fit for article promotion and audience development. At a minimum news sites should set up an official profile and experiment with “buzz this” buttons on their templates.

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Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

We’ve curated this Brachiosaurus-sized collection of 20 great articles all about dinosaurs and the people who obsess over them. Unless you’re sharing breaking news, curated content posts can be scheduled in advance. It has the additional benefit of allowing you to highlight and comment on text in each article you save.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 7, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Diversified Twitter Strategies for News Sites by Adam Sherk on August 7, 2009 This week’s Sysomos study of the 5% most active users on Twitter includes a list of the top 25 users (with more than 50,000 followers) ranked by average tweets per day. tweets per day.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 4, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers? by Adam Sherk on August 4, 2010 The new Digg has gotten a lot of attention for the opportunities it creates for publishers (see ReadWriteWeb and BlueGlass for details).

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Firebelly

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Twitterese — The new way to speak online | Main | Too much flash turns google off » November 13, 2009 social media marketings good news Interview with Dave Evan, Digital Voodoo and author of social media marketing, one hour a day Here's a quick recap of the video.

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Ignite Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2017

Not that long ago the news hit that Instagram had shut down third-party sites and apps like InstaPlus, PeerBoost and Instagress due to them violating Instagram’s Community Guidelines and Terms of Use. You can see in the image below from an article published by The Next Web the difference between real user comments versus fake user comments.

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Firebelly

JUNE 11, 2010

Is Twitter actually moving away from the 140 character limit? What are the 5 biggest risks for businesses in the social media space? Your comment has not yet been posted. Your comment could not be posted. Error type: Your comment has been saved.

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Twist Image

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Behind the scenes at any newspaper is a crack editorial team composed of editors and journalists who spend their days hunting for the news that matters most to you. Success in the publishing business comes from the publishing company that employs the best people who have a "nose for news." Wall Street seems to agree.

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Convince & Convert

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

The company also discovered something surprising – specific types of Coca-Cola news and information ranked among the top performing content. Yes, even with less branded lifestyle content alongside company news. The end result is a highly engaging destination with content on par with lifestyle and news websites.

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Ignite Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2019

This article originally appeared on Forbes.com , on December 28, 2018. But to be successful, this strategy has to be in place as the program begins so that syndication can begin as results come in. The good news is that influencer marketing is set to grow to roughly $6 billion in spend in 2019. Brand Content Plan.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 8, 2010

But for better or worse content aggregation is a big part of online news dissemination today and I wouldn’t expect it go away any time soon. 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.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Make the Most of Your Retweet Buttons by Adam Sherk on February 25, 2010 In working on my presentation for the Twitter Marketing Tactics session at SMX West next week I’ve been looking at the various types of share and retweet buttons used on news sites.

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Firebelly

AUGUST 3, 2010

FOX 59 News in Indianapolis reported on the story and the Facebook wall comments escalated even further. Instead they posted an update saying they were "committed to providing care with respect, dignity and courtesy" and shared a link to a news announcement on the Clarian Health website.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

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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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Metro will provide Foursquare with location-specific editorial content such as reviews, tips and articles on points of interest. While the most natural opportunities for publishers will be tied to current news and information, there are also some compelling things that could be done with historical content. That’s just one idea.

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Firebelly

JANUARY 14, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « We Interrupt This Lifecast: Syndication Overload (Part 1) | Main | Social Media Weekly Roundup 1/11-1/15 » January 14, 2010 4 Ways To Celebrate MLK Day With Social Media Originally posted on January 16, 2009. Details have been updated for 2010. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 11, 2010

Will it work with local news? In my post on news sites on the new Digg I noted that NBC has created a series of city-specific profiles to target local markets. Since the new Digg prioritizes a more personal connection to what you’re digging, we think that users will enjoy seeing local news in their “My News&# feed.

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