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Publisher Survey: Reddit Traffic Way Up, Digg Way Down

Adam Sherk

Has this translated into a significant change in social news referrals for publishers? I intentionally chose sites from several different publishers and focused on those with content that is a reasonably good fit for social news sites. To anonymize the data I combined each site’s figures into a total number for the group.

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This Week in Social Media – 8/7/2013

Social Media Marketing

Metrics / Measurement / Big Data Facebook ads are undervalued by the last-click attribution model ; it''s likely that Facebook ads see better interaction earlier in the purchase funnel, which is confirmed by the Google white paper on the Customer Journey to Purchase What data are marketers interested in? this week in social news'

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How to Identify Your Own Top Trends of 2009

Adam Sherk

Last week Twitter gave us their Top Twitter Trends of 2009 for categories like news events, people, movies, etc. 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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The Most Buried News Sites on Digg

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Buried News Sites on Digg by Adam Sherk on July 23, 2009 It’s no secret that mainstream news sites are experiencing increased exposure on social news sites like Digg. By contrast Telegraph.co.uk

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Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage.

Adam Sherk

But I wouldn’t have expected Digg to be a strong second, since the social news site is known for sending large spikes of visitors that quickly scan the page and then move on. Even just a year ago the majority of news sites were barely dabbling with things like Twitter – now most have Twitter mania.

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This Week in Social Media – 4/3/2013

Social Media Marketing

Google+, Pinterest and Yelp also have made strides since the last year's survey from Constant Contact. Big Data / Measurement Big Data and its use in real world scenarios: Google has been able to capture search data and accurately predict the flu season over the last six years. Big Data is not a cure-all.

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How You Can Benefit from Real Time Search » Techipedia | Tamar.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In addition to Twitter, there are a slew of other social networks which enable users to post status updates, links, and information daily. All of this data that is posted is changing everyday – so most of today’s updates won’t be relevant tomorrow. And for a bonus : SEOmoz is conducting a search engine marketing survey.