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Free Tools for Monitoring Hot Search Trends

Adam Sherk

Here are some free resources for identifying hot topics and search trends. You can also use keyword and reputation monitoring tools, real-time search tools and popular/meme lists for articles, tweets, social media submissions, etc. I’ve primarily stuck to aggregated trend/topic lists to keep the list manageable.

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Help Haiti: News Sites Promote Ways to Donate

Adam Sherk

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. Social media users are doing their part too. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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8 Critical SEO and Digital Marketing Opportunities

Adam Sherk

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. Google PageSpeed Insights should be treated as no more than a rough proxy, especially because the scores are influenced in part by external resources outside of a publisher’s control.

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Link Building Tactics for Publishers

Adam Sherk

However the collective payoff can be substantial so it’s worth devoting some resources to it. 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. E-mail newsletters and RSS feeds.

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Where Do You Want Your Social Media Press Releases to Live?

Adam Sherk

I do agree that it’s much better to strengthen your own domain than boost someone else’s; however, if resources or technical limits keep you from being able to create and host SMRs on your own domain, I think hosting your SMRs somewhere else is better than not doing them at all. However there is also a downside.

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An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News.

Adam Sherk

And interestingly when you click through on that story the Like button does not appear on the page: Since this is a blog post it is likely that Time just hasn’t rolled out integration across all editorial templates yet. When adding to editorial templates make sure the new Like button compliments any existing Facebook implementations.

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Top 10 Reasons The New York Times is Really Putting up a Paywall

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.