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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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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Idaconcpts

JULY 22, 2010

Example of using Google Analytics Track Event to get a deeper look at which buttons are generating the most impact. By tagging all the tweets I send out with Google Analytics tracking code, I can differentiate my own efforts from other traffic sources. Now, let’s take a look into my Google Analytics account. Tweet This!

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Bill Hartzer

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

When Google sees these errors, your website gets penalized. Repetitive title tags will cause Google to believe the page is dynamically generated and/or spammy. Repetitive title tags will cause Google to believe the page is dynamically generated and/or spammy. In this example, your decision is pretty straight forward.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 9, 2009

The Yahoo attribution links do not point directly to the original article URLs. Instead they point to an internal Yahoo News URL which then has a temporary 302 redirect to the original article. So it is important to have a requirement for direct links to your original URLs put into the syndication contract.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

When users click a retweet button, they expect to see something along the lines of: RT @[brand] [headline] [URL] That exact format does not need to be followed, but you want to minimize the work that users need to do before sending out the tweet. Related posts: Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines?

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Even when the engines do a reasonable job of filtering out duplicates in their results, sites are essentially shooting themselves in the foot by splitting internal and inbound links to a particular piece of content across multiple URLs. Appending tracking codes to URLs (e.g. ?xid=rss xid=rss or ?cid=top-stories)

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 30, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the Canonical URL Tag by Adam Sherk on April 30, 2009 Really you shouldn’t need it. Do you recommend inserting the canonical URL tag on every page of a site, or only those that exhibit tracking codes?

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2011

Find out if the username or vanity URL you want is still available across dozens of social sites? Check dozens of popular social networking and social bookmarking websites to see if the username or vanity url you want to use is still available. Supplement your email list with your contacts’ social network info? JustUnfollow.

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 16, 2010

Google, Bing and Yahoo are all experimenting with various forms of real-time results now and making deals with Twitter, Facebook and other social sites. In its “Latest results” Google blends results from Google News and Google Blog Search with updates from Twitter and Facebook Pages, offering multiple paths in for news and content sites.

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Saying It Social

APRIL 8, 2010

Consider, creating a flier, postcard, or business card with the web addresses to the Senior Helpers social networking sites and then leave these pieces behind when you are out on your Influence Center visits. Has your company adopted a social media strategy because you felt you were "forced" to do so? if yes, please explain.

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 18, 2009

Getting beyond the 140-character limit, the technology also looks at biography information and crawls destination URLs to find additional information. Post on Google Buzz. Related posts: Study Proves Facebook and Digg Visitors More Loyal; Twitter in Last Place Are you a loyal visitor? Subscribe to the comments for this post?

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 26, 2010

So I thought I’d take a look at some early examples of Facebook Open Graph integration on news sites. Not covered in my examples above is the fact that Open Graph protocol can also provide sites with additional reporting data. You can jump to the end for the Takeaways ).

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 12, 2010

Here’s an example: [link]. Most likely you’ll need to get another web host where you have more control over the redirects and the type of redirects (Godaddy’s redirect “service&# isn’t really a proper 301 Permanent Redirect, it does a 302 redirect to another URL and then a 301 Permanent Redirect).

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 20, 2009

URL, so I tried using bit.ly search to get click data on each of those shortened URLs. URLs in Muck Rack releases. reports from its search page are not very complete or accurate (you get better data on URLs you’ve personally shortened in your history when signed into bit.ly). Of those 51 releases, 28 included a bit.ly

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Bill Hartzer

AUGUST 24, 2010

Examples of this consist of acknowledging personal details for example birthdays or providing warm introductions to likeminded friends and colleagues. There are lots of much more to be discovered with a Google search. Post on Google Buzz. They have particular concerns, hopes and dreams that affect their daily lives.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The recent partnership between Foursquare and Canada’s Metro is a good early example of the potential that exists. While different from my archive idea, this is a great example of location-based opportunities for news sites. Check out The New York Times page on Foursquare to see it in action.

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Webbiquity SMM

MAY 30, 2010

Check out this outstanding collection of amusing, creative and occasionally bizarre examples of what you may see when clicking on an outdated link or mistyping a URL. 20 Funny, Clueless, Weird, And Existential Google Keyword Searches by MediaPost Search Insider. Post on Google Buzz. Well I thought it was funny anyway.

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Kikolani

MARCH 9, 2011

. <div class="social-single"> <div id="twitterbutton"><script src="[link] type="text/javascript"></script><div> <a href="[link] class="twitter-share-button" data-url="<?php For example, if you do not want to show your share count for Twitter or LinkedIn, you can get the code without the counter.

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Firebelly

MAY 20, 2010

" Below is an example of a profile photo directing people to a desired tab that we created for a client during a sweepstakes they were running:   I realize it's a bit hard to read at this size, but the top half of the graphic is dedicated to their promotion and under the pinata, it says "Click the Sweepstakes tab to enter.

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

For example, Extractable is linking their header logo to a duplicate copy of their home page (they link to [link] instead of to [link] they link to pages like [link] and [link] when they should be linking to the directory, not the actual file (default.shtml). The blog also does not use search engine friendly URLs. Post on Google Buzz.

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Bill Hartzer

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

and in order to achieve those goals you think all you need is a good marketing campaign and excellent rankings in Google. Enter the URL of your landing page or website. For example, if I have two versions of a landing page: A and B, the tool can report that version A has conversion rate of 5% while version B has conversion rate of 7%.

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 12, 2011

When you click a link or visit a web page on your web site, does the URL change? When linking to other pages on your website, some links redirect to other URLs. If you update or redesign your web site, it is preferable to use the same URLs on pages. Not having search engine friendly URLs. Post on Google Buzz.

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Firebelly

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Here’s an example:  Send your own ElfYourself eCards Elf YOURself, and Tweet them to me (now that you can!) Doesn’tget any easier than that! Your comment has not yet been posted. Your comment could not be posted. Error type: Your comment has been saved. Comments are moderated and will not appear until approved by the author.

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Firebelly

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Twitterese — The new way to speak online | Main | Too much flash turns google off » November 13, 2009 social media marketings good news Interview with Dave Evan, Digital Voodoo and author of social media marketing, one hour a day Here's a quick recap of the video.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 30, 2009

Beyond that, there are steps that publishers can take to help reduce the risk of being outranked for their own content: Require partners to link back to the original on every syndicated article, for example: This article originally appeared on Example.com: [direct link, ideally with the headline as the link text]. 5 out of 50?

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Firebelly

JUNE 24, 2010

  Ning, for example, announced last monththat it will be phasing out its free users, and Grou.ps Of course, there are a few drawbacks to consider beforeyou launch a social network around your brand. For one, an increasing number ofthese “free social network” websites have stopped being, well, free. Follow him on Twitter.

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Firebelly

AUGUST 3, 2010

Chad Richards is the Social Program Manager at Firebelly Marketing.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

For your blog, any URL will do, and if you are writing for a blog with multiple authors, FriendFeed parses through the authors and only features blog posts written by you. This way if I go to digg/reddit/SU before Friend Feed, I don’t see duplicates. I actually think the links are coming from Digg and StumbleUpon.

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 3, 2010

I believe that Google does index everything on the page. In order to keep pages indexed in the search engines (mainly Google), you'll need at least one link to each web page on your website. For example, you might create a spreadsheet with all of this data: URL. Post on Google Buzz. That's a good thing.

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Firebelly

OCTOBER 15, 2009

What other examples have you found of the amazing socialimpact of social media? This occurrence is further proof that social media is hereto stay. Some people may still not understand the full impact or the best wayto use social media outlets, but it’s officially a part of our culture. As always, please share! Social media is here to stay.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

How to turn Gmail into a massive personal database (Gmail + the Google Toolbar). How to get real-time news updates in Gmail (Gmail+ Google Talk + Twitter). I scan 275 RSS feeds in Google Reader and I use dozens of bookmarklets and shortcuts to help me manage it all. Enter Gmail and the Google Toolbar.

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 28, 2010

If you go here to this page you will see the whois domain record for the domain name BillHartzer.com, which looks like this: Here’s one tip: if you add a domain name to the end of whois.domaintools.com and go to that URL then you will bring up the whois record for that domain name. Post on Google Buzz. Share this on del.icio.us.

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Firebelly

OCTOBER 23, 2009

For example, check out the very popular site colourlovers. Here are my top 5 reasons that I would recommend WordPress any day of the week: WordPress can make websites that don’t look like blogs. This is a very big misconception. Many people always assume that if you are using WordPress as a CMS that it has to be a blog. This is very untrue.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 26, 2009

For example on The New York Times Company’s corporate site, press releases are hosted by Thomson Reuters on [link] URLs: Last year Todd Defren wrote that social media releases are best kept in your company newsroom for a variety of reasons.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

The thing is that Google has a great memory, but people are forgiving. Some advice I give to my Social Media students is to be careful following the example of some large brands who are relatively new to Social Media but seem to be successful. Small businesses can’t always follow by example, unfortunately.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 21, 2010

As of now, I have Amplify set up to auto-post to Twitter, Facebook (I can sync it to either my personal or business page, or both) Google Buzz and Delicious. Plus if you dont cross post the same URLs, its a good way to see which platform drives more traffic, builds connections, Amplify or Twitter. It syncs with several platforms.

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