Adam Sherk

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25 Random Observations about #MozCon Speakers

Adam Sherk

I’ll cover them in order of appearance: Richard Baxter – Richard sure knows how to make the most out of various tools and Excel, in this case for outreach research. Dharmesh Shah – I really like how if he gets curious about something he goes and builds some kind of tool or script to find out more. Jen Lopez – what an entrance!

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Press Release Optimization Checklist and Tips

Adam Sherk

Press release optimization doesn’t get the attention it once did, at least within the SEO community. Some of the research tools have changed but the fundamentals for optimizing the headline, body text and links are largely the same. Why wouldn’t you try to increase the search engine visibility of your press materials?

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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. What are your aims for that profile?

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5 Good Ideas for News Media Facebook Pages

Adam Sherk

A good way to increase Facebook comments is to ask for user suggestions and offer to feature some in the magazine, as seen in this example from Real Simple: Forrester’s Melissa Parrish , formerly Director of Community Strategy for Time Inc. Digital Lifestyle, shared this example on a conference panel we were on a couple years ago.

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The Top News Sites on Blekko

Adam Sherk

With Blekko officially launching this week the new search engine is getting a lot of attention particularly in the search marketing community because of SEO data it provides. There is a good overview of Blekko’s SEO Tools on Search Engine Land so I won’t go into detail on that here.

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

Adam Sherk

If you distribute press releases through a variety of communication channels journalists have the option of selecting which ones are most suitable for them and this should result in more engagement from them (which is the whole point after all). As Twitter is so popular with the journalism community it seems a natural choice.

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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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