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Mobile Visits Account for 40% of All Traffic for Publishers

Adam Sherk

Mobile is an important and growing traffic source for all publishers, but just how much traffic does it represent? I was curious where things currently stand so I pulled mobile traffic figures from SimilarWeb for a variety of well-known brands. But if you have a SimilarWeb PRO subscription you can pull this data for any site.

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How Much Google News Traffic Do Publishers Get? Here’s Data on 80 News Sites.

Adam Sherk

SimilarWeb provides data on total search visits as well as a breakdown by vertical: For each site I captured total search visits for January through November 2014 and the percentage coming from news search, then used that to calculate the number of news search visits for each site. News Sites Ranked by Google News Traffic. 15 smh.com.au

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The Best Tools for Keyword Research, Competitive Analysis and Trending Topics

Adam Sherk

But it is still the preferred choice for keyword research, and it is good to get the data right from the source. You can use Keyword Planner to compare terms, get new content ideas, explore topical categories, monitor seasonality and compare desktop vs. mobile, among other tasks. Google Trends. Wordstream. Keyword Tool.

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8 Critical SEO and Digital Marketing Opportunities

Adam Sherk

Hosted and Mobile-Specific Article Formats. As a user I like the new hosted and mobile-specific article formats, be that Facebook Instant Articles , Apple News Format or Google’s AMP project. Fast and clean is a good combination, especially on mobile. Structured Data Markup.

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Alicia Keys Facebook Page: I'd Sign Up if She Asked Me All Cool

Adam Sherk

I noticed that in addition to the email list users can sign up for text and voice updates via mobile phone. The key takeaway: the more ways you can bring your Facebook Pages to life, the better. Perhaps for that Alicia Keys should adopt the same style as she did in her Saturday Night Live digital short: Just saying.

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Help Haiti: News Sites Promote Ways to Donate

Adam Sherk

Word of mouth on Twitter, Facebook and other sites (including The White House blog ) has raised over $2 million to-date through mobile phone donations organized by mGive. UPDATES: Mobile phone donations have gone very well.

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Foursquare and The New York Times Archive Would Be a Great Match

Adam Sherk

The NYT could also just build this functionality into their own mobile apps, but partnerships offer greater cross-promotional and audience development opportunities. I bet that nearly every location in Manhattan has been in the news at some point in the last 159 years. That’s just one idea.