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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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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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Link Building Tactics for Publishers

Adam Sherk

RSS feeds are another good opportunity, both for content discovery and because users sometimes utilize them to power link modules on a blog or other site, in which case they become a direct source of links. Link reclamation takes considerable time and effort and it is certainly the least glamorous of all the tactics. Cross-network promotion.

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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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News Sites Not Making Much Use of Static FBML on Facebook Pages

Adam Sherk

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.

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Google Social Search: Are You in Your Target Audiences' Social.

Adam Sherk

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. But in case in takes off, the questions businesses should be asking themselves now are: Are we in our target audiences’ social circles?

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NBC Targets Local Markets on the New Digg

Adam Sherk

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.

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