Adam Sherk

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PRFilter Shows Press Release Buzzword Abuse Still Prevalent

Adam Sherk

Press release search engine PRFilter came out of beta last week. It aggregates press releases from 10 wire services and distribution services and pulls them in directly from 60+ technology and media companies. Press releases from PR Newswire, Business Wire, PRWeb and Marketwire frequently appear in the listings.

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My Top Posts of 2011 on SEO, PR and Social Media for Publishers

Adam Sherk

PRFilter Shows Press Release Buzzword Abuse Still Prevalent. Press Release Optimization Checklist and Tips. Also a special mention for a post from 2010 that continues to bring in considerably more pageviews than anything else: The Most Overused Buzzwords and Marketing Speak in Press Releases.

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Social Media Dominates 2010 PR Planning, But SEO Increasingly in.

Adam Sherk

But 57% also indicated that they plan to increase their focus on SEO: That’s good news, because even just 2-3 years ago many companies’ efforts to integrate SEO and PR activities did not extend much beyond press release optimization. Both rightly deserve credit for increasing awareness industry-wide.

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

Adam Sherk

There is additional information in the NYTco press release , and Jim Romenesko and others have published the staff memo. The reality is that the industry is being radically re-invented by new technology, and there are no easy answers out there. Most likely the result will fall somewhere in between. It happens.

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Borrowing Content Was Happening Long Before Blogging

Adam Sherk

It sounds a lot like the practices of some industry blogs and news aggregators today. Adam is part of the Define Search Strategies consulting team, which is owned by The New York Times Company. We poached material constantly, from newspapers, from other publications — even from Time.

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Search Marketing Dwarfs Social Media in Interactive Marketing Budgets

Adam Sherk

What caught my eye was the chart on budget allocation across various industries in 2009: As you can see search marketing got a much greater share of interactive marketing budgets than social media. Adam is part of the Define Search Strategies consulting team, which is owned by The New York Times Company.

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The Most Popular News Sites on YouTube

Adam Sherk

Help Haiti: News Sites Promote Ways to Donate Videos in Press Releases are Cool – If They Provide Meaningful Content { 4 comments… read them below or add one } The PR Coach August 31, 2010 at 7:08 pm Excellent report and analysis Adam. Same thinking that plagued the music industry 10 years ago.

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