Saying It Social

APRIL 8, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials How To Leverage Your Social Networking Sites When Visiting Influence Centers & Referral Sources While this post is specific to my friends at Senior Helpers , the underlying principle is applicable for all businesses – so read on!

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Saying It Social

AUGUST 24, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials How to Get People to Your Social Sites and Keep them Coming Back You have all of these great social sites but nobody knows about them! Here are some ways to drive people to your social sites and then keep them engaged.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites: Tame Your Blog Tags by Adam Sherk on February 19, 2010 Ever notice all the tags that some blogs add to their posts? Adding a few meaningful tags is fine, but news sites in particular have a habit of taking this practice much too far.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites Not Making Much Use of Static FBML on Facebook Pages by Adam Sherk on June 9, 2010 Between privacy issues, a sweaty CEO and technical problems with its “Like&# buttons Facebook is having a rough time lately. The short answer? Not so many.

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 7, 2009

There is a new study out that shows that people who visit Digg and Facebook are more loyal readers than on other web sites. Twitter, in fact, was shown to have visitors that are not as loyal as other web sites. Digg came in second place with slightly over 16%.&#. Digg 16.09%. Google 11.84%. Bing 11.74%.

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Idaconcpts

JANUARY 13, 2011

The Google Analytics Traffic Overview is a report that provides an overview of the different kinds of sources that send traffic to your site. “Direct Traffic&# is visits from people who clicked a bookmark to come to your site or who typed your site URL directly into their browser. Post on Google Buzz.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 11, 2008

As Digg becomes more of a social network and less of a social news network (or a hybrid that incorporates both elements), it has a lot of obstacles it needs to face. As Digg becomes more of a social network and less of a social news network (or a hybrid that incorporates both elements), it has a lot of obstacles it needs to face.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 14, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Great Example of a Multimedia News Article from ESPN.com by Adam Sherk on August 14, 2009 Recently I wrote about the importance of including meaningful content in videos embedded in press releases. So far Google seems to agree.

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Idaconcpts

DECEMBER 28, 2010

For many Google has become the patron saint of open source, and the number of open source projects Google supports or directly develops seems to increase every day. Google Refine. Think of Google Refine as a cleansing diet for your database. Think of Google Refine as a cleansing diet for your database. EarthSurfer.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Social Media > Thoughts on Digg’s Latest Features: Thumbs Up Thoughts on Digg’s Latest Features: Thumbs Up by Tamar Weinberg on December 17, 2007 Share When I was at Pubcon last week, Digg launched its highly anticipated images section.

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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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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 7, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Diversified Twitter Strategies for News Sites by Adam Sherk on August 7, 2009 This week’s Sysomos study of the 5% most active users on Twitter includes a list of the top 25 users (with more than 50,000 followers) ranked by average tweets per day. tweets per day.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 24, 2010

by Adam Sherk on August 24, 2010 As first covered by Malcolm Coles and later confirmed by Google , for search queries that include a specific domain Google is now showing a larger number of results from that site on page one. So a handful of examples from one individual does not make for a comprehensive sampling.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites by Adam Sherk on October 8, 2009 Although search engines keep improving on their ability to deal with duplicate content, this continues to be one of the main SEO issues facing news and content sites.

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The Web Marketing Association has named the Best Web Sites in 96 different categories. I took a look at the top award winning web sites and the web sites of those who produced them: and am horrified to see a lack of basic search engine optimization techniques being applied. – Best of Show Web Site.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 9, 2011

Google optimization is based on the premise that the more people that like to your website, the more valuable it must be and the higher ranking it deserves in search results. From a search engine’s perspective, backlinks from another site pointing to yours is a meaningful vote of confidence. But what constitutes popularity online?

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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

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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Kikolani

AUGUST 2, 2011

Since I’ve been doing a lot of writing on various sites, I thought I would start a monthly compilation of all the posts I’ve done elsewhere so my readers here don’t miss out on all the informational goodies I’ve been sharing! Featured Post – Social Media ROI with Google Anlaytics 5.

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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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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Google Instant is an enhancement to Google’s search engine that shows you, and changes, the search results as you type, in real time. By implementing Google Instant, Google is trying to enhance our overall search experience by delivering the search results to us, faster. What it means for Search Engine Optimization.

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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? But Does it Violate Facebook Guidelines?

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 14, 2010

For this search engine optimization tip, let’s talk more about content and adding content to your web site. You would think that when planning a new web site or a totally new version of your web site that you can sit down, make a list of web pages, create the content, and forget about it. Web Sites that Rank Well Are Experts.

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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. Reviews in particular offer a good opportunity for publishers as many content sites produce multiple types of reviews on a regular basis. But now is a good time to begin experimenting with it.

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 10, 2011

You can easily search Google to find reviews for different places, but the results are not always useful for your situation. For example, if you were to search for “italian restaurant reviews new york&# you may find some really in-depth restaurant reviews for several places in New York that are too far away from you to be practical.

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yMarketingMatters

OCTOBER 4, 2013

billion people using the site each month, 665 million active users each day, and generates up to 645 million local business page views per week, Facebook has proved that its popularity amongst users is here to stay. Google+ has 359 million active users a month – far from the ghost town it is popularly believed to be.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 7, 2010

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via natural search results. Late last year LinkedIn launched an advanced search feature on their site. For a good example check out these searches for the terms Facebook Marketing and Social Media.

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 3, 2010

Google has issued what they are calling an SEO Report Card , an effort to provide Google’s product teams with ideas on how they can improve their products’ pages using simple and accepted optimizations. Matt Cutts from Google explained that Google had done this “on purpose&#. Appealing Google sitelinks.

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

NASDAQ: SCOR) has recently released a study that focused on Google’s dominance in two emerging Internet markets: Brazil and India. They say that about seventy five percent of all Internet users globally visited one of Google’s web sites at least once last year. .&# In India, Google Sites accounted for 88.4

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 6, 2010

In this example, a press release is distributed online, posted to the company’s Facebook and Twitter updates, and used to create a social media release (using a tool such as PitchEngine ). Likewise, any other blog or media coverage, or bylined articles by the company, are shared via social media sites. Post on Google Buzz.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 1, 2009

A tactic that some news and content sites employ is monitoring Google’s Hot Trends list in an effort to identify hot topics and then quickly produce matching content around them. Many search trends come and go quickly, so sites that cover a topic after its peak will likely miss out on the larger search engine visibility opportunity.

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Back in December 2009 , Google began showing the integration of the real-time web in the Google organic search results. Somehow, algorithmically, Google adds these features into the natural search results. Let us take a look at an example of what I am tattling about. Why would you want to do this?

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Examples range from Google News and Yahoo! to topic-focused niche sites such as (using social media as an example) Social Media Today and Social Media Informer. For example, it took me just minutes to create my own newspaper organizing tweets and links from the smart group of local Minneapolis Twitters I follow.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 2, 2008

Site: Home. Sign in with your Google Account! Sign in with your Google Account! Sign in with your Google Account! Sites linking to this video (5). Sign in with your Google Account! A practical example of how LinkedIn works. A practical example of how LinkedIn works. YouTube On Your Site.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 26, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News Sites by Adam Sherk on April 26, 2010 There has been a lot of news and reaction around Facebook’s new additions to the Facebook Platform: Social Plugins, the Open Graph protocol and the Graph API.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Google Tutor. Your how-to guide for Google with Google tutorials, tips for using Google and advice. 4 Easy Ways of Subscribing to Feeds in Google Reader. Google Reader is a very popular online tool for reading RSS feeds. As a result, the number of ways to get a new feed in to Google Reader has multiplied.

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Kikolani

JANUARY 3, 2013

For example, let’s use the facts we stated earlier. You have a new site and you’re looking to increase traffic and shares – so what can you do? Install only pay with a tweet on your site. What this tool does is help you increase shares on social networking sites. Pay with a Tweet. Raffle Copter.

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