Stay N' Alive

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The debate lies with the fact that more and more people are starting to use Twitter, Twitter lists, Facebook, and other social means to just get the news from the streams they follow on these sites rather than typical RSS Readers like Google Reader. It appears, as no surprise, Twitter is moving in the opposite direction.

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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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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 10, 2010

I just finished reading an interesting TechCrunch article about how Google has upgrade Google Reader, making it more visual. What’s interesting to me, as a search engine optimization expert and online marketer, is not the fact that Google has upgrade Google Reader. It is, after all, pretty cool stuff.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

It looks great when there are a lot of retweets; when there aren’t many it can weaken user perceptions of the content. Finally, don’t forget to include the URL, as Newsweek did on this page: That one is probably a technical glitch, but it’s a big one. Related posts: Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines?

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Adam Sherk

JULY 9, 2009

In looking at syndicated content on Yahoo News, most of the syndicated articles do not include attribution links (each news source likely has to request or provide them), but among those that do exist there is a problem. The Yahoo attribution links do not point directly to the original article URLs.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 20, 2009

URL, so I tried using bit.ly search to get click data on each of those shortened URLs. URLs in Muck Rack releases. 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). Of those 51 releases, 28 included a bit.ly

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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. I didn’t find any shared newsweek.tumblr.com URLs through Bit.ly I didn’t find any shared newsweek.tumblr.com URLs through Bit.ly To investigate further I did a quick check for Twitter activity.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Become a Knowledge Management Ninja with Google Reader. I have been using various RSS readers for nearly five years now - Ive tried them all. However, none matches the power of Google Reader. Some of these may work with RSS readers from Newsgator, Bloglines and others but they are written with Google in mind.).

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Kikolani

APRIL 11, 2012

Actively develop your reputation by creating “positive” content. To set up this RSS feed, you can use the following URL – [link] – or use this handy little tool to easily create Twitter search RSS feeds. Then add the RSS feed to your favorite RSS reader like Google Reader.

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Kikolani

JUNE 27, 2011

The solution to this would be having an RSS feed with only your content in it from each of the sources you write for. Description – this is a short description of the content of your custom feed. Using the shortlink should ensure that if the title or URL change, your feed will still be able to find it. On CommentLuv Blogs.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 21, 2013

Some of the biggest news in the blogging world over the last week was without a doubt Google’s announcement that on June 1st, they’re closing Google Reader. Paraphrasing their own words, the usage of Reader is smaller than ever, and Google want to focus on fewer products. ProBlogger: 94,647.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Articles need to be “objective news” to lead a story cluster (op-ed, satire, press releases and subscription content are not eligible to lead clusters). Duplication and Novelty Detection – More credit is given to original sources of content. Google News uses “Citation Rank” to try to determine the original source (i.e.

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Stay N' Alive

MAY 8, 2011

Last year I shared how Twitter was moving more and more towards a closed, less-standards oriented model of sharing content as they upgraded their design to bring more people to the Twitter.com website. I know because I had several Pages added to Google Reader, and I remember fishing through the HTML source and seeing the RSS link in the code.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 7, 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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Kikolani

JANUARY 24, 2012

Find out what content on your blog your most engaged audience enjoys so you can produce more of it. So now that you know just a few reasons to set up comments as goals, let’s look at the ways you can set up your WordPress and Google Analytics to track your blog comments as goals. Then select the Goal Type of URL Destination.

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 16, 2010

First, a quick look at how news content is currently being included in real-time search results. In its “Latest results” Google blends results from Google News and Google Blog Search with updates from Twitter and Facebook Pages, offering multiple paths in for news and content sites.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 12, 2009

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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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Metro will provide Foursquare with location-specific editorial content such as reviews, tips and articles on points of interest. While the most natural opportunities for publishers will be tied to current news and information, there are also some compelling things that could be done with historical content.

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Kikolani

MAY 28, 2013

Content Marketing Institute. You can see it in the above examples for Convince & Convert, Content Marketing Institute, Duct Tape Marketing, and The Sales Lion. Targeting popups at the page, post category, specific post, referral URL, and other levels. Be sure to follow Kristi on Twitter , Facebook , and Google+.

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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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Kikolani

MARCH 18, 2013

This should lead to more retweets of your content. Kikolani – A community to discuss all things blog marketing related including content, search, and social media marketing. Charlie Tour – PGA Tour + Content Marketing @TaylorMadeGolf. Promote your blog posts with discussions on Twitter. Build your Twitter following.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 26, 2010

News and content sites are a natural fit for participation and Facebook is encouraging news site adoption by showcasing sites that are already experimenting with it. 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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Adam Sherk

JUNE 30, 2009

However from an SEO perspective there is a downside, as syndication creates duplicate content issues. Search engines don’t want to show users multiple versions of the same content, so when an article has been syndicated it’s likely that one version will be given prominence – and that may or may not be the original.

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Kikolani

JUNE 4, 2013

Supporters help you ’spread the word’ by retweeting your statuses and sharing links to your content. You can also use this to monitor mentions of your website by including your URL ([link] as a search item. This will catch retweets of your content where people do not include your Twitter handle. Discover new leads.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. In social media spheres, it’s almost unavoidable to not engage online with content in some way.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

I scan 275 RSS feeds in Google Reader and I use dozens of bookmarklets and shortcuts to help me manage it all. Note that the Google Toolbar automatically inserts the source URL. I also make heavy use of the integrated Google Talk IM client in Gmail. or Google Reader shared feed through Yahoo Alerts.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

While designed to help Google News better interpret and categorize the content in the sitemaps, the tags also provide publishers with additional chances for exposure. It also has the potential to do the opposite; users may disregard non-editorial content such as press releases in greater volume now that it is easier to identify.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

You may love Google Reader, but I still want my Netvibes--and Ill fight you to the death for it. If you liked this article, then you may want to sign up to be automatically notified when I add new content. TrackBack URL for this entry: [link]. URL: Remember personal info? Learn more here. Only took a few minutes.

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Ari Herzog

JULY 16, 2010

You further agree to make such changes to the content or positioning of the statement as Google (acting reasonably) considers necessary in order to ensure compliance with this Section 8. Think about that for a moment… -- Thank you for reading How Bloggers and Webmasters Violate Your Privacy With Google Analytics at AriWriter.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 26, 2009

Whether it is individual releases or your entire newsroom, hosting on PitchEngine means that the content is not on your site, so your domain loses the SEO benefit of the links pointing to that content. However there is also a downside. Essentially you are helping to build up PitchEngine.com’s link equity as opposed to your own.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

technology) and EduBlogger World (for education bloggers) and I launched a social network called iTeach/iLearn (enhancing instruction with tech across the content areas). 3-Set up an iGoogle account using your professional email and subscribe to the blogs you selected in Google Reader. I belong to Classroom 2.0 (for

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 20, 2010

Coming up with a viable metered model that still allows a wide audience to discover and interact with the content – in the ways that they prefer – is just one step on a challenging road ahead. The reality is that the industry is being radically re-invented by new technology, and there are no easy answers out there.

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Writtent Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But how do you convince other websites to link to your great content? Your ultimate goal is to convince bloggers that your content is link-worthy and that it will benefit both them and their audience. Create quality content that captures people’s interest. Find bloggers who can link to your content. Research Topics.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

What most people don’t realize is that it’s almost as easy to go wrong with guest posting as it is with any other content marketing technique. It’s also now evident that Google has no love for low-quality sites and inbound links from them. Check content quality. Spend five minutes reading through the website’s content.

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Stay N' Alive

MAY 9, 2011

It works really well integrating with Google Adsense , Feedburner for RSS tracking, and a few other Google features (including any Google Gadget, as I mentioned above), but some obvious Google products have not been integrated. In addition to URL structure, there is no good way to create a site map in Blogger.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

The url reads montessorY instead of montessori. Caveat to membership and community participation is that one can spend so much time commenting and interacting that he/she doesn’t spend the time developing their own content (confession). Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

Whatever your motivation, your blog needs traffic to achieve those goals, and to do that, you need great content. Get Your Blog Read and Followed When it comes to the internet, there’s one golden rule that stands head and shoulders above the others: content is king. It is vital to master writing great content on your blog.

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