Idaconcpts

MARCH 5, 2011

In a move “to encourage a healthy web ecosystem,” Google recently announced a major change to its search algorithm – a move to devalue so-called “content farms” that primarily copy content from other websites, and sites that offer little or no value-added content for users. According to Google, its algorithm tweak “noticeably” impacted 11.8%

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Harp Interactive

MARCH 31, 2010

Social media sharing / participation (activity on key social media sites, e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc). Google Page Rank for branded and unbranded terms. Here are some tools to measure these with: Google Analytics: (Set up advanced segments, events and reporting) to get key visitor, referral and viewership statistics.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google News Optimization Tips by Adam Sherk on September 3, 2009 This week Google put out a video to give publishers more information on how Google News works and how best to optimize for it. This is data driven and not an “arbitrary decision.”

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Idaconcpts

OCTOBER 8, 2010

I still can’t believe that after 15-20 years of browser’s evolution users are still experiencing data loss. Data Recovery. Because things can go terribly wrong sometimes, a data recovery functionality should be in place. Google Chrome Protection. Post on Google Buzz. Not all windows or tabs! Share this on Facebook.

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Saying It Social

MARCH 25, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Google To Introduce Opt Out Browser Plug In For Analytics Up until just a few minutes ago when I started reading some reports about what I’m about to tell you, I’ve been a huge Google “junkie&#. What are your feelings?

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Adam Sherk

MAY 13, 2009

Initially Google is supporting data on reviews and people. Initially Google is supporting data on reviews and people. You can follow Google’s guidelines for marking up structured data to learn how to do it, including the specific properties for reviews.

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 10, 2011

This post will guide you to the right fields to optimize for the best possible search optimization of your social media profiles on Google+, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and more! How to Set Up Google Analytics on Your Website – This post will help you set up Google Analytics in a few simple steps. Social Media.

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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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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 24, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Do Google’s Expanded Domain Results Apply to News and Video Listings? But CNN did get two embedded video listings on the page, beating out YouTube: Finally, for the query “mosque near ground zero ABC” NPR and AP got the Google News listings, not ABC.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Looking for a free way to manage your business profile data? Better yet, Would you want to distribute that data for free to online and mobile directory publishers? Would you like to add your business profile data for free? Locationary is the global clearinghouse for local data. Post on Google Buzz. Tweet This!

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Believe it or not, being indexed in Google and Google News is actually good for news sites. Google-less? Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! – If You de-Index Will They Still Come?

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 27, 2010

After further investigation into the issue, she learned that the domain names had been suspended by the registrar due to invalid WHOIS data on the domain name WHOIS record–here web server was not down. Craft is among many domain name owners whose domain names have been suspended due to invalid WHOIS data. Post on Google Buzz.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Sharing and discussing content is a key component of Google Buzz, so it’s a natural fit for article promotion and audience development. To what degree that happens depends on how well Google does at improving the interface and functionality. Related posts: Google Social Search: Are You in Your Target Audiences’ Social Circles?

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Bill Hartzer

JUNE 8, 2009

User Centric has released the results of an eye tracking study that compares data between Google and the new Microsoft search engine Bing. What is interesting to note is that sponsored links are attracting more attention than they are on Google. Google users appear to be more aware of the sponsored links.

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Bill Hartzer

JUNE 18, 2010

This search engine optimization tip has to do with removing a page or a specific URL from the Google search engine. In this blog post, I am not going to give you a log of explanation about why you would want to remove a web page from Google. But, what I am going to do is give you several options for removing a web page from Google.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers? by Adam Sherk on December 1, 2009 In November Google announced a new format for Google News Sitemaps with several changes including new tags that provide additional detail on each submitted article.

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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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Adam Sherk

MAY 22, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines? So it appears this tip is intended to make it easier for Google News to understand the correct title for articles, as opposed to being a “must do&# to prevent an issue.

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SocMed Sean

MARCH 18, 2012

I find posts with no Alt tags on the images, meta tags that just weren’t well thought-out, and content and data that, while correct at the time, is now a bit outdated. The data provided to you by Google can be a goldmine in finding and fixing 404 errors. Would you have an addition to the list? Email this to a friend?

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 5, 2009

While it’s good news that Google is continuing to improve its ability to deal with JavaScript, this change also impacts the way that many publishers display sponsored links on their sites. Is Google going to run out and start penalizing sites with sponsored links in JavaScript? Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines?

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 23, 2013

The news of layoffs at StumbleUpon reminded me that in compiling some year-end social media referral data I’d noticed that a number of sites had experienced declines in StumbleUpon traffic. Participation, budgets and timing varies greatly for the sites in this group and I am not able to segment that in the reported data.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

AUGUST 25, 2010

As a result, the sales of the Google Android OS-based smartphones have surpassed the sales of the Microsoft Windows Mobile-based handsets around the world. And this month I saw a stat that said the sales of Google Android phones in the U.S. Why is Google Scared and What it means for B2B Marketing! But I don’t care either.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 6, 2010

Element #1 – Advertising – like most lead nurturing platforms today they allow tracking of your ad spend online – specifically spend on Google AdWords and the conversions from online banners (CPC and CPM spend). Element #3 – Events – throwing events in Facebook is easy, but taking that data and adding that to a profile isn’t.

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Jason Yormark

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Add this to Google Bookmarks. Post on Google Buzz. Add this to Google Reader. What I’ve Learned About Blogging Based On A Year’s Worth Of Data. I think you’ll find the experience enjoyable, and I’m pulling for them to break through. Tweet This! Subscribe to the comments for this post? Share this on Facebook.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 15, 2010

But Twitter, Facebook in some cases Digg still represent the majority of social media referrals to many news sites, so they continue to be a priority. The easiest thing to compare is reach based on Twitter followers and I’ve included that data below. The data point they make available without a subscription is called “Impact.”

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The Marketing Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

10 pm Google Spreadsheets Update: Blessing in Disguise for Marketers… Jump to Comments Web-based productivity tools have been around for quite a while, but their usage and focus has primarily been limited to a very niche audience. What is the problem and what is the solution being offered by Google Spreadsheets’ latest update.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

That’s not an easy question to answer without having access to each site’s analytics data and knowing their goals and objectives. But it is possible to make some basic comparisons using data from some of the free tools that are available. So I ran 30+ news sites through the tool.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

All 20,000 of us must have created and shared a teraflop of data that night in about 4 hours. Which is similar to Google in the sense that we know what and how Google does what it does but we also know their mission is to “index the worlds information&# ! Of course, I ended up doing the same! Tweet This!

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 26, 2010

Google Blog Search has 519,933 total results for “Indianapolis Colts” and 20,776 in the past week. Advantage: SAINTS __ 2nd Quarter: Digg Ok, which team has seen the most activity on Digg? That compares with 1,645 articles submitted, 11 promoted and two with 500+ diggs for the Saints.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

And throughout December we’ve gotten top 2009 searches lists from Google , Yahoo , Bing and Ask. 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.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2010

In my ongoing look at mainstream media outlets and social media I have done multiple posts on news sites and Twitter, Facebook and Digg but I’ve yet to look at YouTube. The Most Buried News Sites on Digg News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers? For this post I used the larger of the numbers.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

by Adam Sherk on February 23, 2010 There is an interesting article in BusinessWeek on how AOL is utilizing software and analytics data in an effort to match content with user interests and monetize it more successfully. But there is no reason not to use tools and data to help make smart business – and editorial – decisions.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 1, 2009

I personally found that Google Trends tends to be a little more sensationalistic than the others. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! Here are some free resources for identifying hot topics and search trends.

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Jason Yormark

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Here’s the raw data: -31 Comments (6 times the norm). -30 Add this to Google Bookmarks. Post on Google Buzz. Add this to Google Reader. Google Wave Invites: Grab Your Board. I always appreciate when people take the time to leave read anything I write, especially when they take the time to leave a few words.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2012

Huge thanks to data-driven social media management software company Argyle Social for their presenting sponsorship, as well as Infusionsoft , Janrain , and Jim Kukral at DigitalBookLaunch. Digg died this week, basically, I guess Digg died several weeks ago but like it officially died this week. Listen Now. Why did it fail?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

We should own that conversation from a share of voice perspective and report to the CEO what’s our “Market Share” in that conversation much like we do with regular market share data based on revenue. Add this to Google Bookmarks. Post on Google Buzz. Add this to Google Reader. Email this to a friend? Tweet This!

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The content on search engines and social media gets a little lost among all the stats and charts so I thought I’d summarize that data here. Related posts: Google Social Search: Are You in Your Target Audiences’ Social Circles? Among social network and Twitter users, fewer share news than receive it.

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