Adam Sherk

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StumbleUpon Channels: Which Media Brands Are Doing Well?

Adam Sherk

It has been a couple months since StumbleUpon rolled out its Channel pages for all members so I thought I’d check in and see how media brands are doing. To-date the media brands with the largest following have attracted 5,000 to 7,000 followers with quite a few channels still under 1,000. Breaking News. DeviantART is also doing well.

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Take Advantage of Additional Google News Opportunities for Publishers

Adam Sherk

5) Google+ and Google Authorship – Google News will sometimes feature Google+ posts from brand pages and individuals among the regular news search results. I did a 90-day study of standout tag usage last year and found that “Featured” articles do appear in Google News multiple times nearly every day.

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

Adam Sherk

For publishers it typically involves identifying users that are sharing, discussing and linking to content from your brands and their competitors, and about specific topics. You can also sort and analyze your own followers to get a better understanding of the potential contact points you already have, or take a look at competing brands.

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Link Building Tactics for Publishers

Adam Sherk

It is one of the many reasons that content marketing has become so popular, as brands in other industries put an emphasis on content development and promotion and essentially become publishers themselves. So make sure to include not only brand new content but also high-priority evergreen and seasonal content when appropriate.

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Hey Sports Teams Quit Telling Me to LIKE your Facebook Posts

Adam Sherk

Brands of all shapes and sizes do it, but as I mainly follow news organizations and sports teams on Facebook it is the teams that negatively caught my attention. Lately I’ve been noticing a lot of Facebook posts in my news feed with a specific request to “LIKE” the post.

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NBC Targets Local Markets on the New Digg

Adam Sherk

Since the new Digg is so, well, new, we’re still figuring out the best way to stay active. Q: Is all content from the sites being automatically submitted or just select stories? Lauren: As of now, the content from the sites is automatically submitted using a feed from our front page. But how have users responded so far?

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Google Social Search: Are You in Your Target Audiences' Social.

Adam Sherk

Related posts: Does Google Want Brands in Your Social Circle? So if you link to your Twitter account on your Google profile the people you’re following on Twitter become part of your social circle. But in case in takes off, the questions businesses should be asking themselves now are: Are we in our target audiences’ social circles?

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