Adam Sherk

MAY 12, 2010

It sounds a lot like the practices of some industry blogs and news aggregators today. We poached material constantly, from newspapers, from other publications — even from Time. Copying from Time was a fact-checker’s dream, because we knew they took accuracy very seriously over there.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 9, 2009

Yahoo is probably using the temporary redirects for tracking, but this practice is interfering with the SEO value of the links. The various methods are often related more to technical setup or tracking than any kind of SEO tactic by the syndication partners.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 14, 2013

For traditional publishers, link building typically falls within the third main bucket of a comprehensive SEO program, which includes technical, editorial and marketing initiatives. However there are plenty of benefits to link development beyond SEO, in particular driving traffic, increasing awareness and building audience.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Like it or not, taking a preemptive approach against Panda and other forms of algorithmic filtering has become a fundamental part of SEO. 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.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Just keep a few things in mind: Anyone involved in publisher SEO has spent a lot of time and effort encouraging editorial teams to find a balance between creativity and editorial voice and the use of clear, literal language. Blog Tag Optimization Tips for News Sites. Don’t let the news_keywords tag add fuel to that fire.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

I also want to emphasize that this tip applies only to articles and blog posts that are eligible for Google News indexation. There is no minimum word count for Web search indexation, although it is good to have more than 80-100 words regardless to avoid creating thin content pages. Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines?

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Adam Sherk

JULY 15, 2013

I’ve read a lot of Aleyda’s blog posts but had never seen her speak before. Her deck on international SEO and ROI was a top presentation of the day on Slideshare last week. He did an excellent job breaking down the current state of semantic SEO and how marketers can take advantage of it. How to Identify Your Own Top Trends.

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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). 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. SEOmoz PRO membership is required to use it.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 18, 2012

5 Ways that Social Media Impacts SEO. SEO Metrics for Publishers: How are You Tracking and Measuring Success? 5 Ways that Social Media Impacts SEO was the big winner in terms of social traction; 500+ tweets is a lot for me. That’s good for business but it means certain things had to give, and this blog was one of them.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

In case you’re counting that’s 47 blog tags between the two posts. As I covered in my post on blog tag optimization this type of over-tagging has little SEO benefit and in the extreme it can even be a negative. So my advice: take it easy on those blog tags. Related posts: Blog Tag Optimization Tips for News Sites.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk How to Identify Your Own Top Trends by Adam Sherk on December 22, 2009 Yesterday Facebook shared its Top Status Trends of 2009 , providing insight into what terms most commonly occurred in users’ status updates. What sections, special features, individual articles, etc.

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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.

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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

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. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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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.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 26, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Social Media Super Bowl: Which Team Has More Reach? 1st Quarter: Blog mentions Two days after the conference championships, which team is being blogged about more? For “New Orleans Saints” it’s 726,855 total and 31,215 in the past week.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 1, 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.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get the Most Engagement? by Adam Sherk on September 17, 2009 Now that the improved Facebook Pages have been around for a while I wanted to check the level of engagement that major news sites are achieving with them.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google News Optimization Tips by Adam Sherk on September 3, 2009 This week Google put out a video to give publishers more information on how Google News works and how best to optimize for it. The Google News optimization best practices apply to blogs as well.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Pew Research News Survey: Findings on Search Engines, Social Networks and Twitter by Adam Sherk on September 13, 2010 The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press has published the results of its latest survey on news consumption and related topics.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? To your point about also taking the size of the audience into account, just posted some extra analysis on our blog. Related posts: Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get the Most Engagement?

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 21, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About Reliability of Information by Adam Sherk on January 21, 2010 Yesterday Cision released the results of their Social Media and Online Usage Study, a survey of social media usage by print and Web journalists.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 5, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular MLB Teams on Twitter and Facebook by Adam Sherk on April 5, 2010 A new baseball season is underway and we are in that wonderfully brief period when fans all over the country still believe this could actually be the year for their team.

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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

JULY 13, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Paywalls, Media Coverage and User Access: What’s a PR Pro to Do? Has anyone ever framed a good comment thread from a company blog, or a collection of “likes” on a Facebook Page? Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers?

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 19, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Alicia Keys Facebook Page: I’d Sign Up if She Asked Me All Cool by Adam Sherk on January 19, 2010 Want to use your Facebook Page to build out your mailing list? Alicia Keys knows how to do it.

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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 11, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk PEJ Study Shows Print Still Primary Source of Original News Reporting by Adam Sherk on January 11, 2010 The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released a study today of the modern news ecosystem, examining a week of news activity in Baltimore, MD.

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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? That’s interesting because a basic best practice in editorial SEO is to customize on-page headlines in the title tag (when necessary) to make them more literal and keyword focused.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers? Blog content does get some extra exposure however. Google is using words like “more flexible,” “easier to submit,” “more control” and even “exciting” to describe the new format and transition period.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 11, 2010

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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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 11, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Pro PR Tips: 100 PR Tips from Rafe Needleman Published as a Book by Adam Sherk on August 11, 2009 Yesterday I received a copy of Rafe Needleman ’s Pro PR Tips in the mail from ITDatabase. What are some of your favorites?

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular News Sites on YouTube by Adam Sherk on August 31, 2010 YouTube is both a major opportunity and an interesting challenge for news sites. There is a main channel for NBC but it’s mainly focused on their entertainment programming.

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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? The same goes for the sites and blogs you follow via Google Reader. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 18, 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.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 23, 2013

America Blog 1 1.10%. POPSUGAR Tech 3 3.40%. TIME 3 3.40%. Washington Post 3 3.40%. Zap2It 3 3.40%. Mother Jones 2 2.20%. Reno Gazette-Journal 2 2.20%. The Street 2 2.20%. USA Today 2 2.20%. Asbury Park Press 1 1.10%. BGR 1 1.10%. Bloomberg Businessweek 1 1.10%. Online 1 1.10%. eCanadaNow 1 1.10%. Fast Company 1 1.10%. Golf.com 1 1.10%.

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