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Yahoo Adds Enhanced News Results to searchmonkey

Adam Sherk

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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Yahoo News Syndication: Attribution Links Not SEO-Friendly

Adam Sherk

In looking at syndicated content on Yahoo News, most of the syndicated articles do not include attribution links (each news source likely has to request or provide them), but among those that do exist there is a problem. The Yahoo attribution links do not point directly to the original article URLs.

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Google+ Engagement for News Sites: Top Performers and One-Year Growth Rates

Adam Sherk

As with my previous comparison, I used All my + to pull data on +1′s, shares and comments for every post on the official Google+ pages of a selection of news sites. Per Post Comments. Comments Combined. I used the same news organizations as last time with a few changes and additions, bringing the list to 48. 4 TIME 109.73

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25 Major News Sites Ranked By Page Speed

Adam Sherk

UPDATE: After Mike’s comment below I added Yahoo! Article Source Page Speed Score (article) 1 Yahoo! UPDATE: Adding Yahoo! Yahoo Adds Enhanced News Results to SearchMonkey { 3 comments… read them below or add one } Mike April 13, 2010 at 11:16 pm Any reason you’re ignoring the leader of the pack?

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News Organizations on Google+: Which Pages Get the Most Engagement?

Adam Sherk

Instead I’ll focus on some basic signals of user activity and engagement: the number of 1+’s, shares and comments on each page. Submitting the profile ID for a particular Google+ page generates an overview chart like this: I collected the +1, share and comment figures for a selection of 45 news organizations. Per Post Comments.

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

Adam Sherk

The number of diggs by each profile is up quite a bit but there has been little commenting activity: Profile Diggs by Publisher. 8/4/10 Increase Comments by Publisher. 8/10/11 Comments by Publisher. The number of diggs by each profile is up quite a bit but there has been little commenting activity: Profile Diggs by Publisher.

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News Sites Not Making Much Use of Static FBML on Facebook Pages

Adam Sherk

The Economist The Economist has multiple customized tabs for subscription, featured articles and a news quiz: Fox News Fox News offers a more visual and interactive experience through its “Fun Stuff” tab: Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune uses a welcome tab to highlight sections and features from its main site: Yahoo!

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