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The Best Free (or Cheap) Tools for Blogger and Influencer Outreach

Adam Sherk

Blogger and influencer outreach is an area with strong crossover between PR, audience development and link building. Finding Bloggers and Influencers. Just search on something like “fashion blogger,” “foodie” or whatever topic you need and you’re on your way. Each tool is free unless otherwise noted.

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Diversified Twitter Strategies for News Sites

Adam Sherk

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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Link Building Tactics for Publishers

Adam Sherk

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. However it is important to do this in way that adds value on each specific site. Partner links. Smart syndication. Shine or MSN Living.

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My Top Posts of 2013 on SEO and Social Media for Publishers

Adam Sherk

The Best Free (or Cheap) Tools for Blogger and Influencer Outreach. Google+ Engagement for News Sites: Top Performers and One-Year Growth Rates. So as I stumble across the finish line, here are my top posts of 2013 by pageviews: The Most Common Google News Errors and How to Avoid Them. SEO Tips for Infinite Scrolling.

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PEJ Study Shows Print Still Primary Source of Original News Reporting

Adam Sherk

Bill Hunt wrote about this a while back in looking at the use of tech press releases by bloggers. So companies can increase the likelihood of their press releases being used by bloggers and local news sources by giving them a more news-like tone and dialing down the marketing hype. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About.

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A similar difference exists for microblogging sites like Twitter. The section on sources used had an interesting stat that relates to the discussion of press release usage by bloggers and local news sources. Newspaper journalists were the most likely to report using no social media tools (21%).

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Survey: Twitter Less than 1% of Traffic to Newspapers and.

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Survey: Twitter Less than 1% of Traffic to Newspapers and Magazines; Facebook 1% by Adam Sherk on March 2, 2010 For my presentation on Twitter Marketing Tactics at SMX West this week I wanted to get a sense of just how much traffic Twitter is driving to major news sites.

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