Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Search trend and social media data is useful for optimizing specific pieces, developing new content ideas and ongoing editorial planning. That all sounds great, but unfortunately reputable content sites are not the only ones employing these tactics. That offers an immediate and actionable optimization opportunity. The Down Side.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Hosted and Mobile-Specific Article Formats. As a user I like the new hosted and mobile-specific article formats, be that Facebook Instant Articles , Apple News Format or Google’s AMP project. Google Panda and other forms of algorithmic filtering continue to impact even reputable brands with quality content.

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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. Article Source Page Speed Score (article) 1 Yahoo!

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? The article goes on to chronicle all sorts of alleged malpractices by Time with quotes from a variety of figures. When they wrote that we were losing, what the print article said was that we were winning.

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