Adam Sherk

AUGUST 11, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Pro PR Tips: 100 PR Tips from Rafe Needleman Published as a Book by Adam Sherk on August 11, 2009 Yesterday I received a copy of Rafe Needleman ’s Pro PR Tips in the mail from ITDatabase. I ended up going through all 100 tips in one sitting.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites by Adam Sherk on October 8, 2009 Although search engines keep improving on their ability to deal with duplicate content, this continues to be one of the main SEO issues facing news and content sites.

Sites 105

Sites News Syndication Content 105

Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Google-less? Related posts: Video Interview: Rupert Murdoch Doesn’t Like Search So Much The Wrap, Newser and Content Aggregation: How Much Attribution is Enough? Related posts: Video Interview: Rupert Murdoch Doesn’t Like Search So Much The Wrap, Newser and Content Aggregation: How Much Attribution is Enough?

News 101

News Google Hitwise Press Release 101

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Related posts: The Wrap, Newser and Content Aggregation: How Much Attribution is Enough? The Most Popular News Sites on YouTube Google Living Stories – Just Snazzy Topic Pages or is Google onto Something? How “popularity” is determined is not specifically defined, but it is likely a simple metric like page views.

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Content Press Release Digg Survey 112

Adam Sherk

APRIL 30, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the Canonical URL Tag by Adam Sherk on April 30, 2009 Really you shouldn’t need it. What you should be doing is avoiding duplicate content altogether.

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Kikolani

APRIL 5, 2013

Blogging / Content. 15 Insider Tips for Creating a Content Creation Machine – Check out these tips for making content creation faster, easier, and more effective. Search Engines / SEO. How Much will Google Reader’s Demise Cost your Business? This Week on Kikolani.

Mashup 121

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Kikolani

JULY 5, 2013

12 Google Reader Alternatives to Consider – You still have until July 15th to download your Google Reader subscriptions and move them to an alternative RSS reader. Blogging / Content. How to Find More Content Ideas than You’ll Ever be Able to Write – Stuck for content ideas?

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Domain Name Marketing Embedding RSS 128

Kikolani

MAY 17, 2013

Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+ , retweeted on @kikolani , and read in RSS subscriptions this week. How to Generate More Leads With Your Blog: 5 Tips – Learn how businesses with top marketing blogs generate leads with social media and content marketing. Blogging / Content.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 8, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Wrap, Newser and Content Aggregation: How Much Attribution is Enough? To me the real question is: when one site aggregates another’s content, how much attribution is enough? Make it simple and logical to get to actual Wrap content from that page.”

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Justin Levy

JANUARY 11, 2010

But, I realize that for some of you, you simply click through or you’ve arrived here from a search engine. Subscribe via Email Don’t have time to check in with your feed reader but still want to get any new content? Sign up via email and receive any new content in your inbox every morning.

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Feed Reader Google Reader RSS Flickr 133

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! Not surprisingly, social media gets the most attention with 80% of respondents indicating they plan to do more with it in 2010.

Vocus 166

Vocus SEO Social Media Press Release 166

Kikolani

MARCH 29, 2013

How to Get Testimonials for Your Business or Blog Using Twitter for Social Proof – Want to get testimonials from customers for your business or readers for your blog? Blogging / Content. Google Reader’s Demise is Irrelevant for Blogs – The demise of Google Reader will have no impact on blogs and blogging.

Mashup 122

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Kikolani

JUNE 20, 2011

One of the easiest ways to do that is using Google Reader in the Chrome browser with the PostRank Chrome extension. Simply subscribe to your desired guest post destination in Google Reader, and let PostRank do the rest. Your Tips on Guest Posting Success. The next great strategy is knowing when to pounce.

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Postrank Publishing Guidelines Google Reader 161

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google Social Search: Are You in Your Target Audiences’ Social Circles? So if you link to your Twitter account on your Google profile the people you’re following on Twitter become part of your social circle. If not how do we get there?

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Saying It Social

MAY 1, 2010

Now that your blog is done, you still need to find content to share with your networks throughout the rest of the week. Finding content to post can turn into a big “time suck”. But, what if you could have the content delivered to you, instead of having to search it out? Before you post please READ the content.

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How To Google Reader Social Networking Ping.fm 132

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Data like this is interesting to check out, and it can provide useful insights for marketers and content producers in getting a better understanding of user interest and activities in both search and social media. What types of content generated the most social media sharing and inbound links? were most (and least) popular?

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Kikolani

MAY 24, 2013

Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+ , retweeted on @kikolani , and read in RSS subscriptions this week. Blogging / Content. Content marketing metrics is about measuring the results. Search Engines / SEO. Be sure to follow Kristi on Twitter , Facebook , and Google+. Enjoy your blogging!

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 11, 2010

While many people regard press releases as little more than throw-away text, the reality is that smaller news sources in particular do in fact use that content in full or repurposed form. We found official press releases often appear word for word in first accounts of events, though often not noted as such.

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Study News Press Release Report 147

Adam Sherk

MARCH 16, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Real-time Search Optimization for News Sites by Adam Sherk on March 16, 2010 The major search engines are making real-time search a priority, resulting in good visibility opportunities for news sites especially for breaking news.

Sites 143

Sites News Yahoo Engineering 143

Kikolani

JUNE 14, 2013

Blogging / Content. The Power of the Double-Whammy Headline: How to Increase the Chances of Your Content Being Read – It’s just like the usual compelling headline that draws in your reader … but it’s got backup. Search Engines / SEO. Eight SEO experts weight in with their top tips. Authorship Anxiety Solved!

Marketing 127

Marketing FeedBlitz RSS SEO 127

Kikolani

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Before images can be effective on your blog, it needs to be relevant and blend with the niche and content of your blog post. Additionally, though I optimize all the descriptive texts around all the images on the blog, but I ensure to use my keyword as the alt tag of the linking image to gain some love from the search engines.

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Engagement How To Klout Creative Commons 156

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 14, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Great Example of a Multimedia News Article from ESPN.com by Adam Sherk on August 14, 2009 Recently I wrote about the importance of including meaningful content in videos embedded in press releases. So far Google seems to agree.

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Kikolani

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+ , retweeted on @kikolani , and read in RSS subscriptions this week. Blogging / Content. How to Use Google Reader to Find & Share Content - Learn how to use Google Reader to find the best content to share. Here are my 10 best tips.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 14, 2013

When it comes to link building publishers have a significant advantage because editorial content, be it hard news or evergreen content, lends itself naturally to linking and sharing. In addition producing quality content on a daily basis creates a steady stream of new opportunities. Partner links.

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Publishing Module Syndication Badge 209

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 20, 2009

Google employee “Inbal” later provided a more specific time window, indicating “the rate at which we recrawl may vary, but we try to go back and check for changes in article content within the first 12 hours after we first find it.” I went looking for an updated story in Google News today and was able to find an example.

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News Google Syndication Press Release 101

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 1, 2009

A tactic that some news and content sites employ is monitoring Google’s Hot Trends list in an effort to identify hot topics and then quickly produce matching content around them. The major engines all produce some form of hot topic/trend list, and several third-party and social media sites do as well. Does this work?

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Trends Tools Embedding Digg 146

Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

When they’re already consuming content, it’s too late. No wonder Google’s making over $20 billion a year in ad revenue. To be sure, Google — and search marketing in general — is not the only way to reach people in a commercial mindset. Over 40% is spent with content. came over from Google. Look at AOL.

News 121

News Press Release Survey SEO 121

Kikolani

APRIL 12, 2013

Blogging / Content. 9 Convincing Arguments to Win Your Content Marketing Budget – Find out how marketers who are keen on content strategies can win the backing — and budget — they need to proceed with their content marketing efforts. Search Engines / SEO. Do you want to get paid to write?

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 23, 2009

First, a study of 33 million unique users from Chitika’s network in September showed that visitors coming from Facebook and Digg were more loyal than those coming from the three major search engines and Twitter. For many news sites (especially poorly optimized ones) search engine referrals are still considerably below 20% of total traffic.

Hitwise 124

Hitwise Social Media Digg Survey 124

Kikolani

MAY 3, 2013

The Top 75 Must-Read Online Marketing Blogs – Last year, I compiled 75 Marketing Blogs that covered conversion, content, email, paid search, SEO, analytics, blogging, and social media marketing. Blogging / Content. Here are a few actionable and high probability tips and tactics for snagging.edu links.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 6, 2010

The layout is clean and simple, the content is interesting and Newsweek is mixing in plenty of items from other sources. In terms of search engine visibility, as of today the Tumblr site is #9 in my Google results for “Newsweek” so it’s working its way up. But it would be nice to see the Tumblr site have a more interactive feel.

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Tumblr Engagement Press Release Syndication 131

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 17, 2009

When it comes to interactive media buys it looks like Google and the other search engines still offer marketers the best opportunities online. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

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Social Media Marketing Press Release Survey 123

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

Maybe you’ve set up a blog to run AdSense and earn money from the search engines. Whatever your motivation, your blog needs traffic to achieve those goals, and to do that, you need great content. Although there are other types of content out there that you could post on your blog, that usually means you need to write great blog posts.

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Blogger Engineering Flickr SEO 250

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 19, 2010

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! Adam is part of the Define Search Strategies consulting team, which is owned by The New York Times Company.

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Press Release Facebook Syndication Blogroll 138

Adam Sherk

MAY 19, 2009

So total natural search engine referral traffic is a more important measuring stick than what percentage of site traffic comes from natural search. So total natural search engine referral traffic is a more important measuring stick than what percentage of site traffic comes from natural search.

Hitwise 100

Hitwise News Report Press Release 100

Adam Sherk

MAY 19, 2009

So total natural search engine referral traffic is a more important measuring stick than what percentage of site traffic comes from natural search. So total natural search engine referral traffic is a more important measuring stick than what percentage of site traffic comes from natural search.

Hitwise 100

Hitwise News Report Press Release 100

Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2010

But Facebook Pages remain a key audience development and content promotion opportunity for publishers so it is important to make the most of them. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

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News Sites Yahoo Facebook 181