Adam Sherk

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Does Google Freshness Update Make Online Reputation Management More Difficult?

Adam Sherk

If you cover breaking news, hot topics or regularly occurring events the freshness update will create more chances for your latest content to surface highly for general search queries (like the name of a celebrity, sports team or TV show). It is simply a recent event that illustrates the Google freshness update in action. How It Works.

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Startups Use Micro-PR Campaigns to Tip Momentum in Their Favor

Adam Sherk

With a strong fear of cold calling and attending networking events, he wasn’t getting his complete concept heard and he wasn’t going anywhere fast. Everyone in theory faces the same demands when it comes to starting a company, gaining investors and growing their customer base. www.easy.pr | wendy@easy.pr.

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PEJ Study Shows Print Still Primary Source of Original News Reporting

Adam Sherk

Also this statement on the role of new technology in breaking news more quickly was interesting: As news is posted faster, often with little enterprise reporting added, the official version of events is becoming more important. Adam is part of the Define Search Strategies consulting team, which is owned by The New York Times Company.

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Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

Adam Sherk

PostRank counts “engagement events” which it defines as individual activities such as a tweet, like, comment, digg, RSS view, etc. It then assigns “engagement points” to each event; events that demonstrate a higher level of effort and engagement are given higher values. So I ran 30+ news sites through the tool.

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

Adam Sherk

News sites have a big advantage over other companies on Facebook because they regularly produce breaking news and other forms of quality content that can be featured on their pages and placed in user news feeds. Adam is part of the Define Search Strategies consulting team, which is owned by The New York Times Company.

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How to Identify Your Own Top Trends of 2009

Adam Sherk

Last week Twitter gave us their Top Twitter Trends of 2009 for categories like news events, people, movies, etc. Adam is part of the Define Search Strategies consulting team, which is owned by The New York Times Company. And throughout December we’ve gotten top 2009 searches lists from Google , Yahoo , Bing and Ask.

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Top 10 Reasons The New York Times is Really Putting up a Paywall

Adam Sherk

We can probably say that Google and others will continue to provide information and news of events worldwide for those who search for it. Their existing company structure will not support the support the abundance of free information. Their existing company structure will not support the support the abundance of free information.