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An Ode to Blog Comment Spam

Adam Sherk

Ever notice how the most flattering blog comments are actually the spam comments? It has already snagged more than 100K on this blog: An achievement worthy of some actual praise. Related posts: Blog Tag Optimization Tips for News Sites. This always makes me smile, so I thought I’d share a handful of them here.

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News Sites: Tame Your Blog Tags

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites: Tame Your Blog Tags by Adam Sherk on February 19, 2010 Ever notice all the tags that some blogs add to their posts? To be clear, I’m not saying that blog tags have no SEO purpose or value. So use tags, but use them wisely.

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Borrowing Content Was Happening Long Before Blogging

Adam Sherk

It sounds a lot like the practices of some industry blogs and news aggregators today. We poached material constantly, from newspapers, from other publications — even from Time. Copying from Time was a fact-checker’s dream, because we knew they took accuracy very seriously over there.

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The Best Free (or Cheap) Tools for Blogger and Influencer Outreach

Adam Sherk

Plug any URL into Topsy and see who tweeted it and which users were most influential (and which have a blog). Twitter is often the easiest social gateway to finding bloggers since people with a blog tend to be on Twitter too. Google Blog Search. The basic functions are free. Google+ Tools. Google Alerts.

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Google News news_keywords Meta Tag: More Cons than Pros?

Adam Sherk

Many editorial teams already have a misperception that adding tag links to a page (most commonly on blog posts) helps their content to rank better for those terms. See Blog Tag Optimization Tips for News Sites and The Huffington Post’s Kim Kardashian Tag-o-Rama for more on this. Blog Tag Optimization Tips for News Sites.

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The Huffington Post’s Kim Kardashian W Magazine Tag-o-Rama

Adam Sherk

In case you’re counting that’s 47 blog tags between the two posts. As I covered in my post on blog tag optimization this type of over-tagging has little SEO benefit and in the extreme it can even be a negative. So my advice: take it easy on those blog tags. Related posts: Blog Tag Optimization Tips for News Sites.

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Is Using Facebook Comments Good for Publishers?

Adam Sherk

As someone who limits his Facebook friends mainly to actual friends but who frequently reads and comments on industry and marketing blogs, for me the main concern with using Facebook Comments is the desire to keep my professional and personal lives separate. I like this idea but not everyone has a blog or a professional Facebook Page.

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