Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers? 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.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

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. Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers?

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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

MAY 22, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines? So it appears this tip is intended to make it easier for Google News to understand the correct title for articles, as opposed to being a “must do&# to prevent an issue.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google Social Search: Are You in Your Target Audiences’ Social Circles? 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. If not how do we get there?

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Sharing and discussing content is a key component of Google Buzz, so it’s a natural fit for article promotion and audience development. To what degree that happens depends on how well Google does at improving the interface and functionality. Related posts: Google Social Search: Are You in Your Target Audiences’ Social Circles?

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Adam Sherk

MAY 12, 2010

It sounds a lot like the practices of some industry blogs and news aggregators today. Shifting from poaching content to paying for it, it really is no wonder that the AP seems so threatened by Google. Copying from Time was a fact-checker’s dream, because we knew they took accuracy very seriously over there. What’s a news agency to do?

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 24, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Do Google’s Expanded Domain Results Apply to News and Video Listings? But CNN did get two embedded video listings on the page, beating out YouTube: Finally, for the query “mosque near ground zero ABC” NPR and AP got the Google News listings, not ABC.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 13, 2009

Initially Google is supporting data on reviews and people. Initially Google is supporting data on reviews and people. You can follow Google’s guidelines for marking up structured data to learn how to do it, including the specific properties for reviews. But now is a good time to begin experimenting with it.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Believe it or not, being indexed in Google and Google News is actually good for news sites. Google-less? Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! – If You de-Index Will They Still Come?

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 5, 2009

While it’s good news that Google is continuing to improve its ability to deal with JavaScript, this change also impacts the way that many publishers display sponsored links on their sites. Is Google going to run out and start penalizing sites with sponsored links in JavaScript? Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines?

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 30, 2013

Plug any URL into Topsy and see who tweeted it and which users were most influential (and which have a blog). Google+ Tools. Twitter is often the easiest social gateway to finding bloggers since people with a blog tend to be on Twitter too. CircleCount and FindPeopleonPlus are decent databases of Google+ users.

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 16, 2010

Google, Bing and Yahoo are all experimenting with various forms of real-time results now and making deals with Twitter, Facebook and other social sites. 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.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Why the News Business Isn’t Profitable by Guest on September 10, 2010 This is a guest post from Aaron Goldman , author of Everything I Know about Marketing I Learned from Google. You just Google it, right? came over from Google. Or trying to find a handyman?

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I’ve been enjoying a needed break from blogging this year but I thought it was time to pop my head up and share some thoughts. As a user I like the new hosted and mobile-specific article formats, be that Facebook Instant Articles , Apple News Format or Google’s AMP project. Google News. Structured Data Markup.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 1, 2009

I personally found that Google Trends tends to be a little more sensationalistic than the others. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! Here are some free resources for identifying hot topics and search trends.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 16, 2013

Related posts: Google News Optimization Tips. Blog Tag Optimization Tips for News Sites. The bottom line: choose whatever approach makes the most sense for your site, but make sure you are providing easy crawler access and sufficient internal link support to all of your content pages.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 14, 2013

A good way to investigate this is to review the Crawl Errors report in Google Webmaster Tools, which shows URLs with 404, 500 and other errors that Google encountered while crawling the site. So maintain a decent selection of feeds and don’t let the impending shutdown of Google Reader move you away from RSS.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Google Expanded Sitelinks: Optimize Opening Text in META Description Tag. In checking out Google Analytics one thing I like about my top 10 is there were multiple paths to success. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to devote much time to blogging this year. PRFilter Shows Press Release Buzzword Abuse Still Prevalent.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

And throughout December we’ve gotten top 2009 searches lists from Google , Yahoo , Bing and Ask. What were your top referrers/trends in Web search, news search, image search, blog search and video search? After reading, I know what to do to understand user behavior and how to improve my blog in 2010.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 5, 2010

While the Tigers fan page has 248k+ fans, as of today the only page Facebook search shows for “Detroit Tigers” is an unofficial, outdated page with 841 fans: Even clicking “See More Results” doesn’t surface the real page – I had to use Google to find it. The number of social blogs in Boston providing real-time game updates is also plentiful.

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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. But from what I can see, and I searched with both Facebook and Google, the Saints do not have an official page.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Yahoo and Google were among the most frequently mentioned websites for online news, indicating that users see them as sources for news (be it original reporting or aggregation) and not just search vehicles. Related posts: Google Social Search: Are You in Your Target Audiences’ Social Circles?

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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 how well do major news sites perform in these areas?

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 8, 2010

It is another to mass-aggregate content from a specific publication and then package it on a hub page, even customizing the URL and title tag for SEO: For what it is worth, Google does not seem to be assigning much value to the page. Why not just send a DMCA complaint to the web host and get the site taken down? Or … well, ask nicely.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

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. too bad google doesn’t allow the sale of text link ads or aol could really clean up in a few years.

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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. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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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. So yes I’m joining the club.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 8, 2009

A few other notes on dealing with duplicate content: This week Google specifically recommended against using robots.txt to block duplicates , which is a change from previous recommendations. Conduct a comprehensive SEO site audit to identify CMS and site architecture issues (as well as editorial and marketing issues).

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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. The Red Cross and Google also have tools for this purpose. Social media users are doing their part too.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 16, 2013

In working with publishers one of the things I’m most frequently asked to do is troubleshoot problems with Google News. Anyone on staff at a news or content site can attest to the importance of Google News and news search optimization. Not an approved source – site not showing up in Google News? Eligibility and Indexation.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

And if I want to get an overview of the current news of the day I’ll go to Google News or Yahoo! However, according to the Google Adwords Keyword Tool , some people do: Currently CNN.com and MSNBC.com are the top two listings in Google for “breaking news.” News , or direct navigate to a major news site.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

And if I want to get an overview of the current news of the day I’ll go to Google News or Yahoo! However, according to the Google Adwords Keyword Tool , some people do: Currently CNN.com and MSNBC.com are the top two listings in Google for “breaking news.” News , or direct navigate to a major news site.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 14, 2009

So far Google seems to agree. As of today the article is #1 (after some embedded news results) for the query “michael vick eagles”: Related posts: Do Google’s Expanded Domain Results Apply to News and Video Listings? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Related posts: Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines? Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! Adam is part of the Define Search Strategies consulting team, which is owned by The New York Times Company.

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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. What are some of your favorites?

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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. 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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