Adam Sherk

JUNE 15, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites on Twitter: Who is Making the Most Impact? But Twitter, Facebook in some cases Digg still represent the majority of social media referrals to many news sites, so they continue to be a priority. 2,461,060 2 @cnnbrk 77.3% 3,139,883 3 @TIME 76.9%

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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

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

JANUARY 14, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Help Haiti: News Sites Promote Ways to Donate by Adam Sherk on January 14, 2010 As the devastation and human tragedy caused by the Haiti earthquake grows, people are flocking to the news media for information, and more importantly to learn ways that they can help.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But at this early stage, how strong are the marketing opportunities for news sites? At a minimum news sites should set up an official profile and experiment with “buzz this” buttons on their templates. Facebook itself is making a push to get users to create personalized news channels that benefit both users and news sites.

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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

MAY 12, 2010

It sounds a lot like the practices of some industry blogs and news aggregators today. Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the Canonical URL Tag So Far so Good for Seattlepi.com 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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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. Advantage: SAINTS __ 2nd Quarter: Digg Ok, which team has seen the most activity on Digg?

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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. 25 Major News Sites Ranked by Page Speed. Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

But while you’re going through this year’s top trends, don’t forget to apply the same practice to your own sites. Things that news and content sites should look at include: What terms and content types brought in the most search engine referral traffic? What sections, special features, individual articles, etc.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2009

A tactic that some news and content sites employ is monitoring Google’s Hot Trends list in an effort to identify hot topics and then quickly produce matching content around them. Many search trends come and go quickly, so sites that cover a topic after its peak will likely miss out on the larger search engine visibility opportunity.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage of Site Traffic by Adam Sherk on October 23, 2009 Yesterday posts from eMarketer and Marketing Pilgrim called my attention to some interesting social media statistics put out by advertising network Chitika.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 4, 2010

Also I’ve only been blogging here for about six months, so I’m still building up momentum. So belatedly here are my 10 most popular posts of 2009, by pageviews: Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get the Most Engagement? The Most Popular NFL Teams on Twitter and Facebook Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The Fastest and Slowest News Sites in 2012. Publisher Survey: Reddit Traffic Way Up, Digg Way Down. That’s good for business but it means certain things had to give, and this blog was one of them. Media Relations Gone Wrong: How Not to Pitch a Journalist (Video). 5 Good Ideas for News Media Facebook Pages.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 27, 2009

CNN.com is soliciting user feedback by including a prominent survey link at the top of the page: It will be interesting to see how NewsPulse changes user behavior on the site over time. It has the potential to increase the number of stories read per visit, resulting in more page views and time on site.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 6, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Newsweek on Tumblr: Good Effort, Needs More Engagement by Adam Sherk on January 6, 2010 Awareness of Newsweek’s Tumblr site has been increasing of late. That’s critical for giving the site stand-alone value as opposed to just being a feeder site to Newsweek.com.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? Search Marketing Dwarfs Social Media in Interactive Marketing Budgets 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?

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Social Media 19% of the public regularly (7%) or sometimes (12%) get news or news headlines through social networking sites. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! Only 3% regularly or sometimes gets news from Twitter.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

by Adam Sherk on June 9, 2009 Among news sites “breaking news” is a sought-after keyword phrase; I see it prominently placed in home page title tags all the time: And it’s not just general news sites. Breaking news” is featured in the title tags of sites covering sports, entertainment and a wide range of topics.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

by Adam Sherk on June 9, 2009 Among news sites “breaking news” is a sought-after keyword phrase; I see it prominently placed in home page title tags all the time: And it’s not just general news sites. Breaking news” is featured in the title tags of sites covering sports, entertainment and a wide range of topics.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 19, 2010

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 21, 2010

A similar difference exists for microblogging sites like Twitter. 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?

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Which News Sites Have the Most Valuable 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? So I thought I’d take a closer look at what Fox News is doing on its Facebook Page , as well as some engagement examples.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 22, 2009

Due to space limitations and to try to grab on-site users’ attention, news sites sometimes use shorter and/or wittier “tout links&# on home pages, section fronts and in popular content modules. Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines?

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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

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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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2009

SearchMonkey allows sites to use structured data to include additional information in their Yahoo search results such as addresses and phone numbers, review scores, pricing, etc. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

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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. Thanks for the kind words on the FC article!

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Adam Sherk

MAY 19, 2009

So total natural search engine referral traffic is a more important measuring stick than what percentage of site traffic comes from natural search. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

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Adam Sherk

MAY 19, 2009

So total natural search engine referral traffic is a more important measuring stick than what percentage of site traffic comes from natural search. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

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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. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

What else can news sites do with Foursquare and other forms of location-based social media? While different from my archive idea, this is a great example of location-based opportunities for news sites. 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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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 11, 2010

Google News Optimization Tips A Look at Muck Rack’s Twitter Press Release Service, 51 Releases Later 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?

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 20, 2010

If we want the most up to date News, then Digg or even Twitter provide immediate News. UPDATE: For those interested in more actual information, NYTco. Adam Sherk January 20, 2010 at 4:30 pm It’s hard to argue with that. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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