Adam Sherk

AUGUST 20, 2009

Google employee “Inbal” later provided a more specific time window, indicating “the rate at which we recrawl may vary, but we try to go back and check for changes in article content within the first 12 hours after we first find it.” I went looking for an updated story in Google News today and was able to find an example.

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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 which news sites fared best?

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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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Firebelly

JUNE 24, 2010

| Main | Are We Addicted To Social Media? » June 24, 2010 Jakes Take: A Slew of Social Network Ideas Almost everyone is aware of the major social networkingwebsites in existence. But did you know there’s a social network dedicated to people who like totravel to different baseball parks?

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Firebelly

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Courtney Love gets sued over tweets | Main | Cyber Monday Is Here! » November 24, 2009 Social Networking Meets Game Consoles There used to be a time where you could play video games for video games and use the computer for computer related things. What do you think?

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 14, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Great Example of a Multimedia News Article from ESPN.com by Adam Sherk on August 14, 2009 Recently I wrote about the importance of including meaningful content in videos embedded in press releases. So far Google seems to agree.

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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

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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Laurel Papworth

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Why traditional media editors will turn to bloggers for articles in the future. Social media = content PLUS audience. 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? I’m cheap too.

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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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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? Do they want to follow and interact with specific media sites? They also made 29 comments; that’s a very low number but most of the other sites have not made any.

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Firebelly

JULY 9, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Fridays Fun Online Finds | Main | Coleman Campsite: The Original Social Networking Site » July 09, 2010 5 Fun Twitter Quizzes Its Friday and todays fun finds are 5 Twitter quizzes that are sure to entertain you, enlighten you, and help you unwind after a busy work week.

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Firebelly

JUNE 22, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Social Media Weekly: 5 Stories You Need to Read | Main | Jakes Take: A Slew of Social Network Ideas » June 22, 2010 YouTube Tuesday: What The HELL Is Social Media?

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 24, 2010

by Adam Sherk on August 24, 2010 As first covered by Malcolm Coles and later confirmed by Google , for search queries that include a specific domain Google is now showing a larger number of results from that site on page one. But do the expanded results apply to the embedded news and video listings in the SERPs?

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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

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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Firebelly

JULY 30, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « YouTube Tuesday: The Social Network Trailer | Main | Ball Memorial Hospitals Facebook Nightmare » July 30, 2010 3 Stories That Rocked The Social Media World This Week Below are the top 3 stories that rocked the social media world this week.

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Firebelly

JULY 23, 2010

Heres a simple primer, a list of do-nots that will help you to avoid some of social medias most perilous pitfalls. How to Use Social Media to Rank on Google Now that Google is indexing social media content in real-time, how can you leverage blogs and social networks to rank on Google?

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Firebelly

JUNE 10, 2010

  The article, Appealing to Community , focused on how not-for-profits are reaching out to younger donors with social media while keeping older supporters in the fold.  Chad Richards is the Social Program Manager at Firebelly Marketing.

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Firebelly

AUGUST 6, 2010

WHAT THE F*CK IS MY SOCIAL MEDIA "STRATEGY"? A funny social media strategy generator. Click around a bit to figure this site out. Bold & Digital Men of Social Media 2011 Calendar Seriously. How To Build A Rabid Following on Twitter The title of this video explains it all.

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Firebelly

JANUARY 22, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « We Interrupt This Lifecast: Syndication Overload (Part 2) | Main | Youtube Tuesday: Lost Generation » January 22, 2010 Social Media Weekly Roundup 1/18-1/22 Theres a lot going on in the social media space and so much can get lost or overlooked in your RSS feed reader.

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Firebelly

JULY 16, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Coleman Campsite: The Original Social Networking Site | Main | How One Unhappy Customer Multiplies Across Social Media » July 16, 2010 What the F**k is Social Media NOW? Its a sequel to the original What the F**k is Social Media?

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Ari Herzog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

I’ve read articles about burglaries and stalking thanks to Foursquare, but because I only occasionally link my check-ins with tweets, I figured I was being responsible. Related posts: Syndicating FourSquare to Twitter. Tags: Social Networking Foursquare networking. My heart started to race.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 8, 2010

To me the real question is: when one site aggregates another’s content, how much attribution is enough? 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. It’s always there.

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Firebelly

MAY 27, 2010

Firebelly Marketing on Facebook SYNDICATED ON Recent Posts Greenpeaces Unfriend Coal Campaign Calls Facebook A "So Coal" Network Branding Outside The Box Twitter announces #NewTwitter Flickr Friday: The Content Grid 5 Helpful Social Search Articles Firebelly at Brainstorming & Social Media Optimization Summits 5 Helpful Facebook Places for Business (..)

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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 tag is used to identify sites that require a subscription or registration.

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ProBlogger

MAY 19, 2022

As part of the online marketing mix, blogging plays a significant role because right now much of the marketing effort still revolves around driving people to your web site. When you want your prospects to buy something, you want them to visit your site and proceed to the order / payment page. Contribute to article directories.

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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

JUNE 8, 2010

Firebelly Marketing on Facebook SYNDICATED ON Recent Posts Greenpeaces Unfriend Coal Campaign Calls Facebook A "So Coal" Network Branding Outside The Box Twitter announces #NewTwitter Flickr Friday: The Content Grid 5 Helpful Social Search Articles Firebelly at Brainstorming & Social Media Optimization Summits 5 Helpful Facebook Places for Business (..)

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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?

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Firebelly

JUNE 30, 2010

Firebelly Marketing on Facebook SYNDICATED ON Recent Posts Greenpeaces Unfriend Coal Campaign Calls Facebook A "So Coal" Network Branding Outside The Box Twitter announces #NewTwitter Flickr Friday: The Content Grid 5 Helpful Social Search Articles Firebelly at Brainstorming & Social Media Optimization Summits 5 Helpful Facebook Places for Business (..)

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Firebelly

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « 5 Helpful Facebook Places for Business Articles | Main | 5 Helpful Social Search Articles » September 02, 2010 Firebelly at Brainstorming & Social Media Optimization Summits Brainstorming and Social Media Optimization Summits run simultaneously in Dallas, TX from September 15-17.

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Firebelly

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Social Search Statistics from SES Chicago | Main | Firebellys Top 9 Blog Posts of 2009 » December 17, 2009 5 Ways to Fan the Viral Flame In the Igniting Viral Campaigns session at SES Chicago last week, Tessa Wegert, Interactive Media Strategist at Enlighten; Greg Finn, Director of Internet (..)

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Firebelly

AUGUST 11, 2010

Firebelly Marketing on Facebook SYNDICATED ON Recent Posts Greenpeaces Unfriend Coal Campaign Calls Facebook A "So Coal" Network Branding Outside The Box Twitter announces #NewTwitter Flickr Friday: The Content Grid 5 Helpful Social Search Articles Firebelly at Brainstorming & Social Media Optimization Summits 5 Helpful Facebook Places for Business (..)

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Firebelly

JULY 1, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Happy Social Media Day - June 30th | Main | Fridays Fun Online Finds » July 01, 2010 Jakes Take: TV On The Internet It’s no secret – the Internet and social media sites are agreat way to target a large, and typically younger, audience.

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