Adam Sherk

MAY 17, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Which News Sites Have the Most Valuable Facebook Pages? by Adam Sherk on May 17, 2010 Maintaining a Facebook Page is now a fundamental part of most news organizations’ social media presence.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 14, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Great Example of a Multimedia News Article from ESPN.com by Adam Sherk on August 14, 2009 Recently I wrote about the importance of including meaningful content in videos embedded in press releases. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 15, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites on Twitter: Who is Making the Most Impact? There is of course much more to the social media universe than just The Bobbsey Twins. But which news sites are making the most of their Twitter presence? 2,461,060 2 @cnnbrk 77.3% 38,607 24 @FT 25.6%

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 7, 2009

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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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

AUGUST 4, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers? Do they want to follow and interact with specific media sites? For example Phoenix New Times, WGNTV and Seattle Weekly all have 0 followers as of today).

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SocMed Sean

JULY 11, 2018

Are the back-links from other sites worth it? For those of you who don’t know what back-links are or what “back-link building” means, this concept refers to the proactive activity of searching out high-quality web sites and identifying ways to get the author to create a link to your site or article.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The recent partnership between Foursquare and Canada’s Metro is a good early example of the potential that exists. What else can news sites do with Foursquare and other forms of location-based social media? While different from my archive idea, this is a great example of location-based opportunities for news sites.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 28, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Article Highlights: Good for Users, Good for Search Engines by Adam Sherk on July 28, 2009 Yesterday Steve Rubel pointed out how the article highlights on sites like CNN.com and iMedia Connection are a good time saver for him.

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Saying It Social

APRIL 6, 2010

For example our Facebook Page is [link] so to “Like&# our page via text message all you need to do is text “like sayingitsocial&# (without the quotes) to 32665. Pingback by How to Get People to Your Social Sites and Keep them Coming Back « Saying It Social | August 24, 2010 | Reply Leave a comment Click here to cancel reply.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 24, 2010

by Adam Sherk on August 24, 2010 As first covered by Malcolm Coles and later confirmed by Google , for search queries that include a specific domain Google is now showing a larger number of results from that site on page one. So a handful of examples from one individual does not make for a comprehensive sampling.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2009

A tactic that some news and content sites employ is monitoring Google’s Hot Trends list in an effort to identify hot topics and then quickly produce matching content around them. Many search trends come and go quickly, so sites that cover a topic after its peak will likely miss out on the larger search engine visibility opportunity.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

So I thought I’d take a closer look at what Fox News is doing on its Facebook Page , as well as some engagement examples. Which News Sites Have the Most Valuable Facebook Pages? Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Yahoo Adds Enhanced News Results to SearchMonkey by Adam Sherk on August 31, 2009 On Friday Yahoo announced new additions to its SearchMonkey enhanced results, including options for news content. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Saying It Social

MAY 1, 2010

Fortunately, with a little strategic planning and implementation of some very helpful tools, you can accomplish your social networking/social media marketing tasks for the day in a very short amount of time. Blogs lend so many benefits to a social media marketing program that they really can’t be overlooked.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Make the Most of Your Retweet Buttons by Adam Sherk on February 25, 2010 In working on my presentation for the Twitter Marketing Tactics session at SMX West next week I’ve been looking at the various types of share and retweet buttons used on news sites.

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 2, 2010

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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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Do People Search for “Breaking News”? by Adam Sherk on June 9, 2009 Among news sites “breaking news” is a sought-after keyword phrase; I see it prominently placed in home page title tags all the time: And it’s not just general news sites.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Do People Search for “Breaking News”? by Adam Sherk on June 9, 2009 Among news sites “breaking news” is a sought-after keyword phrase; I see it prominently placed in home page title tags all the time: And it’s not just general news sites.

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Kikolani

JULY 4, 2010

One of the top sponsors spearheading this contest is the network behind ComLuv itself where you can download the plugin and register your site to have your latest 10 blog posts / articles available to you when commenting. Learn How to Blog at FamousBloggers. Millwork Architectural Mouldings Talk Home Improvement.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk An Early Look at News Media Twitter Lists: Not Much Traction by Adam Sherk on November 3, 2009 With all the buzz about Twitter Lists I thought I’d take a look at how some major news sites are doing so far with their own Lists.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Unfortunately for him, Tiger Woods offers a good example of why news sites would want to use both. So sports news sites in particular will also benefit from having a Tiger Woods topic page that encompasses his entire career and provides users easy access to his latest news, stats, biography, etc.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 30, 2009

Related posts: A Look at Muck Rack’s Twitter Press Release Service, 51 Releases Later The Most Overused Buzzwords and Marketing Speak in Press Releases Where Do You Want Your Social Media Press Releases to Live? Greg Jarboe July 31, 2009 at 6:03 pm Great example, Adam. And you are absolutely right.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 9, 2009

For example at the bottom of this syndicated LiveScience.com article you’ll see the attribution link: ( 2010 Update: The syndicated article no longer appears on Yahoo News so I removed the link to it. Which News Sites Have the Most Valuable Facebook Pages? The Yahoo attribution links do not point directly to the original article URLs.

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Saying It Social

MAY 26, 2010

Small Business Administration on a site to help your business thrive using online tools. See two examples here that we’ve create for two of our clients: Sylvan Learning Center of Lynchburg, VA: Senior Helpers: Now take a few moments to create your own. Taking place in Washington D.C. million small businesses in America.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 18, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Newsweek’s Tim Geithner Interview Live on Facebook: Don’t Forget to Link to the Video Afterwards by Adam Sherk on May 18, 2009 Today Newsweek offered live streaming of Jon Meacham’s interview with Treasury Security Tim Geithner on its Facebook page.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 18, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Newsweek’s Tim Geithner Interview Live on Facebook: Don’t Forget to Link to the Video Afterwards by Adam Sherk on May 18, 2009 Today Newsweek offered live streaming of Jon Meacham’s interview with Treasury Security Tim Geithner on its Facebook page.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 20, 2009

Previously the only way to get the more comprehensive version into Google News was to republish the article on a new URL, which was not the best experience for either on-site or search engine users. 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? Due to space limitations and to try to grab on-site users’ attention, news sites sometimes use shorter and/or wittier “tout links&# on home pages, section fronts and in popular content modules.

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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? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

MAY 13, 2009

Reviews in particular offer a good opportunity for publishers as many content sites produce multiple types of reviews on a regular basis. Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Saying It Social

JUNE 22, 2010

For example, when a user checks-in to a certain location more than anyone else they earn the “Mayor&# badge; more and more restaurants are beginning to reward the Mayor of their location with specials such as a free entree or not having to wait for a table on a busy evening. You will also notice that uploading a photo is an option.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

For example the Charlotte Observer is likely to be given more weight on stories about North Carolina. Publish informative, unique content – Sites are encouraged to produce strong original content as opposed to repurposing or duplicating stories Some other information: Story clusters (i.e.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 30, 2009

Every piece of content on your site should exist on one permanent, unique URL, and any duplicate pages should be consolidated through 301 redirects. On newspaper and magazine sites, the main culprit is typically the practice of appending tracking codes to the end of URLs, for example: www.yoursite.com/article ? xid=rss (or ?xid=topstories

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Share your results with friends, in your blogs, or on any site that accepts HTML. Some examples follow: What are Your Chances of Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse? Examples include: Instant Domain Search (with its AJAX glory) Website Monitoring Tests Think about it this way: MyBlogLog has a widget , statistics, and a community.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 16, 2010

In the rules of the promotion, or otherwise, you will not condition entry to the promotion upon taking any action on Facebook, for example, updating a status, posting on a profile or Page, or uploading a photo. Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

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