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NBC Targets Local Markets on the New Digg

Adam Sherk

Lauren: Our team started the NBCLocal account a little over a year ago because we wanted to be part of the Digg community in the most transparent way possible, and we wanted to connect the national and international Digg community with interesting local stories. I’ll do a follow-up post when there is more data to report on.

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A Look at Muck Rack's Twitter Press Release Service, 51 Releases Later

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search to get click data on each of those shortened URLs. reports from its search page are not very complete or accurate (you get better data on URLs you’ve personally shortened in your history when signed into bit.ly). As Twitter is so popular with the journalism community it seems a natural choice. URL, so I tried using bit.ly

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An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News.

Adam Sherk

Consider the impact that Facebook Open Graph protocol integration will have on your existing on-site community features and social functionality. Not covered in my examples above is the fact that Open Graph protocol can also provide sites with additional reporting data. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage.

Adam Sherk

In publishing that typically means additional page views and time on site, RSS and e-mail newsletter subscriptions, user account and on-site community sign-ups, etc. I’d also like to point out that for major media sites, search engine referral traffic is typically a much smaller percentage than Chitika’s network is receiving.

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Google javascript Changes Put Publishers in Violation of Sponsored.

Adam Sherk

I can’t imagine they would, especially when virtually no one outside of the developer and SEO communities is even aware that this change has taken place. 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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The Most Popular NBA Teams on Twitter and Facebook

Adam Sherk

Shining a Spotlight on Video News Webmaster Tools: Updates to Search queries, Parameter handling and Messages Twitter data lets NPR glimpse a future of app-loving news junkies Shared Items Disclaimer The opinions expressed on this blog are Adam Sherks own and do not necessarily reflect the views of his company or its clients.

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Will Publishers Add Cross-Domain Rel=Canonical to Syndication Deals?

Adam Sherk

I can see how Google might like to keep that low profile among the general population (so it can safely drop 2ndary/tertiary content versions from the index), yet go higher profile in the seo/webmaster community (so as to influence the use of rel canonical). We do live in interesting times. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?