Adam Sherk

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Publisher Survey: Reddit Traffic Way Up, Digg Way Down

Adam Sherk

The rise of Reddit and the steady decline of Digg have been well documented. Just recently Reddit announced that its traffic has more than doubled in less than a year (to 2.07 Anecdotally we’ve all seen Reddit gain in prominence at a time when Digg has struggled to maintain its relevancy. million visits in 2009 to 22.7

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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. But it is a useful additional source of data for exploring topics for content planning. Their main focus is PPC but as with Keyword Planner the data is useful for SEO too. Wordstream. Keyword Tool.

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StumbleUpon Traffic to Magazine and Content Sites Down 27%

Adam Sherk

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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How to Identify Your Own Top Trends of 2009

Adam Sherk

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 stories gained traction (or were buried) on social news sites like Digg and Reddit?

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Free Tools for Monitoring Hot Search Trends

Adam Sherk

Shining a Spotlight on Video News Webmaster Tools: Updates to Search queries, Parameter handling and Messages Twitter data lets NPR glimpse a future of app-loving news junkies Shared Items Disclaimer The opinions expressed on this blog are Adam Sherks own and do not necessarily reflect the views of his company or its clients.

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Pinterest Traffic to Magazine Sites Up 141% But Figures Still Modest

Adam Sherk

But fear not, I come with real data to share albeit it in aggregated and anonymized format. To get a clearer picture I pulled referral data from the past six months for a group of 25 magazines sites that we work with at Define Media Group. To anonymize the data I combined all 25 sites’ figures into a monthly total.

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