Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

After reviewing several days’ worth of activity, I have to say that nearly anything Fox News posts to its page ends up getting a decent amount of likes and comments from fans. Even more mundane news items still manage to spark a round of commenting. Which News Sites Have the Most Valuable Facebook Pages?

News 104

News Engagement Facebook Press Release 104

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

What were your top referrers/trends in Web search, news search, image search, blog search and video search? What generated the most “likes” and comments on your Facebook Page? 7 comments… read them below or add one } David Mathison December 22, 2009 at 1:46 pm Great points Adam, thanks for sharing! Best to you.

Trends 167

Trends How To Digg Press Release 167

Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Don’t break up the article body – Articles should have sequential paragraphs; don’t break them up with user comments or links to related posts. I wonder if some of the points laid out regarding News outlets are still relevant for blogs and all? The Google News optimization best practices apply to blogs as well.

News 158

News Google Tips Press Release 158

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 26, 2010

1st Quarter: Blog mentions Two days after the conference championships, which team is being blogged about more? Google Blog Search has 519,933 total results for “Indianapolis Colts” and 20,776 in the past week. So I’m going to gloss over all of that and just look at four things, one for each quarter in the Super Bowl.

Team 150

Team Social Media Digg Press Release 150

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Another year has passed and that means it is time for marketing blogs to do their obligatory top posts of the year roundups. And on my own blog I’m certainly curious to know which posts brought in the most traffic this year. So yes I’m joining the club.

Sports 126

Sports News SEO Press Release 126

Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Update: for more on this last point see the comment from Michael Cottam below). An example of this would be publishing a blog post, article and gallery all on the same subject, with each version repeating certain portions of the same text and sharing the same headlines and title tags.

Sites 278

Sites Google Syndication Template 278

Adam Sherk

MAY 4, 2010

So I checked the number of likes and comments for each team’s last 10 updates. I realize that counting likes and comments is a very limited measurement of engagement but it offers a simple way to compare user activity on each team’s Facebook Page. 2527 2 Denver Nuggets 151,165 784.3 3 Boston Celtics 592,509 632.6

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Team Engagement Facebook Press Release 165

Adam Sherk

JUNE 1, 2011

Arthur mentioned that he was working on it in the comments of my first buzzwords post and now that it’s been released I’m happy to say he achieved his aim and then some. Enter Better than Great , Arthur Plotnik’s new book containing nearly 6,000 alternate terms for praise and acclaim.

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Press Release Marketing Sports SEO 190

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 6, 2010

In looking through the site though one thing stands out – nearly every item has no comments or reactions: That seems odd, but it’s not just a holiday season slowdown. I went back several months and it’s not easy to find items that have gotten comments. I didn’t find any shared newsweek.tumblr.com URLs through Bit.ly

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Tumblr Engagement Press Release Syndication 131

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 18, 2012

That’s good for business but it means certain things had to give, and this blog was one of them. To everyone that sent a pageview, comment, link or social share my way this year, thank you, I appreciate it. I hope you found some of them useful.

Press Release 119

Press Release SEO Digg Sports 119

Adam Sherk

APRIL 5, 2010

As Markus points out in the comments below, the problem with Facebook search and the Detroit Tigers page was actually that I used the misspelling “Detriot&# in my search query. The number of social blogs in Boston providing real-time game updates is also plentiful. Pretty embarrassing. Fans are NOT less enthusiastic.

Team 204

Team Twitter Facebook Comparison 204

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 1, 2009

2 comments… read them below or add one } Gary Gregory October 9, 2009 at 4:51 pm Thank you for the list! Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? I’ve primarily stuck to aggregated trend/topic lists to keep the list manageable.

Trends 146

Trends Tools Embedding Digg 146

Adam Sherk

JULY 13, 2010

The good news is that some of the models currently being considered include free access for users who come in from links in blogs and social media, so at least in some cases exposure will not be limited solely to paid subscribers. Has anyone ever framed a good comment thread from a company blog, or a collection of “likes” on a Facebook Page?

Press Release 141

Press Release SEO News Survey 141

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

PostRank counts “engagement events” which it defines as individual activities such as a tweet, like, comment, digg, RSS view, etc. 8 comments… read them below or add one } Jeff Domansky October 6, 2010 at 5:14 pm Adam, great analysis! So I ran 30+ news sites through the tool. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

Sites 176

Sites News Postrank Engagement 176

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 20, 2010

However my comedic talents are limited, so please bail me out by suggesting more reasons in the comments. Adam Sherk January 21, 2010 at 3:49 pm Thanks for your comment Charles. Most likely the result will fall somewhere in between. UPDATE: For those interested in more actual information, NYTco.

Press Release 126

Press Release Digg News SEO 126

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Blog content does get some extra exposure however. When a user clicks on the “all X news articles” link at the bottom of a story cluster, Blogs is the second section on the full coverage page: Two other new tags in Google News Sitemaps are and. identifies the name of the news outlet and the language it is published in.

News 104

News Publishing Google Press Release 104

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 14, 2010

Word of mouth on Twitter, Facebook and other sites (including The White House blog ) has raised over $2 million to-date through mobile phone donations organized by mGive. Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

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News Sites Digg Press Release 129

Adam Sherk

MARCH 16, 2010

In its “Latest results” Google blends results from Google News and Google Blog Search with updates from Twitter and Facebook Pages, offering multiple paths in for news and content sites. Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

Sites 143

Sites News Yahoo Engineering 143

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 27, 2009

One aspect that CNN might want to rethink is the inclusion of “Total Comments” for each news item. The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites The Most Buried News Sites on Digg Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

Content 112

Content Press Release Digg Survey 112

Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Aaron is doing a blog tour in support of the book launch (covering 30 blogs in 10 days), which I thought was an interesting concept. I’ve been through the book and it’s a good read; for more information check out GoogleyLessons.com. – Adam The traditional news business, as we have known it, is dead.

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News Press Release Survey SEO 121

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 29, 2009

The same goes for the sites and blogs you follow via Google Reader. So if you link to your Twitter account on your Google profile the people you’re following on Twitter become part of your social circle. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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Google Google Reader Press Release Survey 109

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 16, 2010

In looking at recent posts of the day, most are getting more than 2,000 “likes” and a considerable number of comments: If there are 10,000 active fans daily you would think they’d all be “liking” the post of the day since that is primarily what is driving the repeat visits. But 2,000+ likes per wall post is impressive. Apparently it does.

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RFI Guidelines Facebook Press Release 156

Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

7 comments… read them below or add one } Craig Kanalley November 3, 2009 at 8:55 pm Interesting, and kind of sad that @BreakingTweets, even with just three lists, is doing more than many of these news organizations. I created it, and found this blog through a quick Google search. Thanks for the kind words on the FC article!

News 136

News List Twitter Sites 136

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 4, 2010

Also I’ve only been blogging here for about six months, so I’m still building up momentum. Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? The Most Popular NFL Teams on Twitter and Facebook Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

SEO 101

SEO News Social Media Syndication 101

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 4, 2010

Here is the reported data on 30 media profiles, ranked by number of followers (as of today): Profile Followers Following Diggs by Publisher Comments by Publisher 1 The New York Times 10,225 4 65 1 2 The Wall Street Journal 9,546 15 281 1 3 BBC News 9,222 0 5,423 0 4 Time 7,842 964 6,289 29 5 Telegraph.co.uk

Digg 134

Digg Sites News Activities 134

Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2010

I have seen plenty of blog posts and conference presentations on how to utilize Static FBML but I rarely see news sites highlighted among the examples of good usage. But Facebook Pages remain a key audience development and content promotion opportunity for publishers so it is important to make the most of them.

News 181

News Sites Yahoo Facebook 181

Adam Sherk

APRIL 13, 2010

UPDATE: After Mike’s comment below I added Yahoo! Yahoo Adds Enhanced News Results to SearchMonkey { 3 comments… read them below or add one } Mike April 13, 2010 at 11:16 pm Any reason you’re ignoring the leader of the pack? 80 5 aolnews.com 77 guardian.co.uk 77 7 huffingtonpost.com 76 telegraph.co.uk

Sites 161

Sites News Yahoo Journal 161

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 21, 2010

Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage of Site Traffic My Top 10 Posts of 2009 on News Media, SEO and Social Media Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

Social Media 122

Social Media Press Release Microblogging Survey 122

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 17, 2009

3 comments… read them below or add one } Jeff Lancaster - Outrider December 17, 2009 at 3:02 pm It is indeed interesting to see that search is holding its own. Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? Thank you for keeping us informed.

Social Media 123

Social Media Marketing Press Release Survey 123

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 12, 2010

2 comments… read them below or add one } Peter Robert Casey January 16, 2010 at 2:14 am I like how you summed up the misperception of social media being a popularity contest: “While building up followers is great, it’s what you do with that following that really matters.&# Great work, Adam.

Team 179

Team Twitter Facebook Press Release 179

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 11, 2009

I’d seen some of the tips previously via Twitter and on the Pro PR Tips blog , but the book presents them in a nice, clean format that makes for a good read. By the way, ITDatabase is giving away free copies of the book to tech PR professionals; you can fill out a form on their blog.

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Tips Publishing Press Release Syndication 102

Adam Sherk

MAY 22, 2009

Shining a Spotlight on Video News Webmaster Tools: Updates to Search queries, Parameter handling and Messages Twitter data lets NPR glimpse a future of app-loving news junkies Shared Items Disclaimer The opinions expressed on this blog are Adam Sherks own and do not necessarily reflect the views of his company or its clients.

News 100

News Google Syndication Press Release 100

Adam Sherk

APRIL 8, 2010

Adam Sherk April 9, 2010 at 12:27 pm Thanks for your comment Brittnay. Having represented several “big&# news sources in the blog space, I can tell you that in my several years of doing this, the requests I have made have never been denied, even overseas. Thanks for the write up. It’s always there.

Aggregator 110

Aggregator Content Syndication Journal 110

Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? i think aol is sending a pretty clear message that their new ceo is saying that google still wants tons and tons of content for the foreseeable future. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

Hitwise 110

Hitwise Press Release Adsense Syndication 110

Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

An Early Look at News Media Twitter Lists: Not Much Traction Your Mom’s Coming to Facebook, But She May Not Stick Around News Sites Not Making Much Use of Static FBML on Facebook Pages Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

Sites 118

Sites News Google Facebook 118

Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Adam Sherk February 26, 2010 at 9:46 am On a different note, the irony is not lost on me that my post on retweet buttons has gotten hardly any retweets Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? Thanks for sharing.

Syndication 117

Syndication URL Press Release SEO 117

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2010

Help Haiti: News Sites Promote Ways to Donate Videos in Press Releases are Cool – If They Provide Meaningful Content { 4 comments… read them below or add one } The PR Coach August 31, 2010 at 7:08 pm Excellent report and analysis Adam. Hard to believe mainstream TV isn’t all over this. Glad you are enjoying the site!

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Sites News YouTube Press Release 182