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

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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

MAY 12, 2010

Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the Canonical URL Tag So Far so Good for Seattlepi.com Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

While the most natural opportunities for publishers will be tied to current news and information, there are also some compelling things that could be done with historical content. 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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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 11, 2010

This is particularly appealing for publishers with content that may be of interest to specific audiences as opposed to the wider Digg user base. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! Will it work with local news?

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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

JANUARY 7, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Hearst Skiff Reader Looks Cool by Adam Sherk on January 7, 2010 Hearst’s Skiff Reader is being unveiled at CES this week. It’s an interesting project and it is good to see publishers trying new things, however slow to move they may have been to-date.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 20, 2009

This is encouraging news for publishers as previously once an article was indexed in Google News no changes or updates to it would be registered. This is encouraging news for publishers as previously once an article was indexed in Google News no changes or updates to it would be registered.

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News Google Syndication Press Release 101

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Search Marketing Dwarfs Social Media in Interactive Marketing Budgets by Adam Sherk on December 17, 2009 This week both Brian Solis and SEOMoz made reference to a recent Forrester report forecasting US interactive marketing budgets for the next five years.

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Social Media Marketing Press Release Survey 123

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. So, to all those publishers out there who built their businesses on news.

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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? But in case in takes off, the questions businesses should be asking themselves now are: Are we in our target audiences’ social circles? If not how do we get there?

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Adam Sherk

MAY 29, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Your Mom’s Coming to Facebook, But She May Not Stick Around by Adam Sherk on May 29, 2009 Inside Facebook published some new statistics this week on Facebook’s US audience growth over the last 60 days. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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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? Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers? To be clear, I’m not saying that blog tags have no SEO purpose or value.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage of Site Traffic by Adam Sherk on October 23, 2009 Yesterday posts from eMarketer and Marketing Pilgrim called my attention to some interesting social media statistics put out by advertising network Chitika.

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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. Not sure what SearchMonkey is?

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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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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get the Most Engagement? Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! in the sidebars and subpages.

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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? This gives publishers the opportunity for greater exposure to users looking for content from their specific site (and who may not be familiar with the “site:” search operator).

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 6, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Newsweek on Tumblr: Good Effort, Needs More Engagement by Adam Sherk on January 6, 2010 Awareness of Newsweek’s Tumblr site has been increasing of late. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 12, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Daily Show Visits The New York Times by Adam Sherk on June 12, 2009 I couldn’t resist sharing this great video from The Daily Show of Jason Jones visiting The New York Times. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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The Way of the Web

MARCH 7, 2010

But all of these might appear to be isolated cases against individuals or small groups – and some might argue that publishing anything remotely contraversial is foolish, even in jest, on a public platform, whatever your privacy settings – and events like this one don’t help.

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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. Creating textual descriptions and transcripts is helpful.

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News Google Tips Press Release 158

Adam Sherk

MAY 19, 2009

It’s also worth noting that a lot of major publishers still get a huge portion of their traffic from direct navigation. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

MAY 19, 2009

It’s also worth noting that a lot of major publishers still get a huge portion of their traffic from direct navigation. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Hitwise News Report Press Release 100

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk A Look at Muck Rack’s Twitter Press Release Service, 51 Releases Later by Adam Sherk on October 20, 2009 I’m definitely a fan of Muck Rack – it offers an easy way to track major media journalists on Twitter and pick up on trending topics.

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Press Release Twitter URL RSS 145

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 27, 2009

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. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 14, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Corporate Social Media Marketing is about Two-Way Communication by Adam Sherk on April 14, 2009 It’s a simple concept, but one that many companies are still struggling with in terms of practical implementation.

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

It would also be interesting to see how Microsoft addresses the financial realities of trying to extend such an arrangement to a larger group of publishers. 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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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

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

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk AOL Newsroom: A Model for the Future or Shades of 2001? Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

Hitwise 110

Hitwise Press Release Adsense Syndication 110

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 Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Trends How To Digg Press Release 167

Adam Sherk

JULY 22, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Smart Move from Condé Nast: GQ and DETAILS Should Have Their Own Websites by Adam Sherk on July 22, 2009 There’s been a lot of coverage this week of Condé Nast bringing in McKinsey & Company to help them restructure the business, which hopefully will work out for them.

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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? Publishers are desperately trying to come up with new business models and hopefully they’ll figure out a system that works. Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers?

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Press Release SEO News Survey 141