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StumbleUpon Traffic to Magazine and Content Sites Down 27%

Adam Sherk

To get a better sense of the situation I pulled StumbleUpon referral figures from 2010-2012 for a group of 47 news and content sites that we work with at Define Media Group , primarily magazine brands. For confidentially reasons I am not able to reveal the specific titles, but they are all well-known brands from major publishers.

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Publisher Survey: Reddit Traffic Way Up, Digg Way Down

Adam Sherk

Has this translated into a significant change in social news referrals for publishers? ” I wanted to get a better idea of just how much of a shift has occurred with some of the publishers that we work with at Define Media Group. Related posts: Survey: Twitter Less than 1% of Traffic to Newspapers and Magazines; Facebook 1%.

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Official Publisher Profiles on Digg One Year Later: Followers up 720%

Adam Sherk

When I did my original post Digg v4 was just about to come out of alpha so there has been a significant increase in exposure for the profiles and many more publishers have created them. Slate Magazine 8,445 1,537 449%. Most of the publishers continue to follow very few others: Profile Following 8/10/11 Following 8/4/10.

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Why Popular Science Killed Their Comments And The Huffington Post Should Too

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If the comments following this post or any others were gone, how much of a difference would that make? Last week, Popular Science shut off the comments on their website. In an article titled, Why We''re Shutting Off Our Comments , online content director, Suzanna LaBarre stated: "Comments can be bad for science.

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Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers?

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers? That may be getting carried away but the new format does have some advantages for publishers, although they are not being fully utilized by Google News yet. The main opportunity comes from the new tags.

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Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the.

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the Canonical URL Tag by Adam Sherk on April 30, 2009 Really you shouldn’t need it. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? Which News Sites Have the Most Valuable Facebook Pages? {

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