Adam Sherk

JANUARY 23, 2013

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. The examined sites can be roughly divided into five main categories: food, home, fashion & beauty, health, entertainment and news & tech.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But at this early stage, how strong are the marketing opportunities for news sites? Sharing and discussing content is a key component of Google Buzz, so it’s a natural fit for article promotion and audience development. At a minimum news sites should set up an official profile and experiment with “buzz this” buttons on their templates.

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SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

While not necessarily a new site (it launched in beta in 2010), Pinterest is coming into its own with a female-dominated demographic that has rocketed past Etsy in membership and traffic. And what about Google+? Google’s entry into the social space started with a big bang and, just as rapidly, fizzed.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? by Adam Sherk on October 6, 2010 It is safe to say that most news sites are now experimenting with various forms of user engagement and content promotion through social media. on their site).

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Saying It Social

JULY 12, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Musings on Joining New Social Media Sites, Site Recommendations and On-Going Participation A while back I set up accounts on Amplify and Clipmarks. One day, four new sites. What are your experiences with trying out new sites?

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Kikolani

JUNE 28, 2013

July 1st is just about here, so if you haven’t already, now is the time to choose your alternative RSS reader of choice to replace Google Reader. Since I last wrote about Google Reader alternatives, more services have sprung up to fill the voie. Can be used on your desktop with Google Chrome and on iOS or Android devices.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get the Most Engagement? by Adam Sherk on September 17, 2009 Now that the improved Facebook Pages have been around for a while I wanted to check the level of engagement that major news sites are achieving with them.

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Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 25, 2010

social networking profiles, social bookmarking sites, other bloggers). But two great sources are blog directories and RSS syndication sites. So, having recently completed a submission campaign for a client, here is an updated list of blog directories and RSS syndication sites that remain active and free. Post on Google Buzz.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

In the past few weeks, however, even Digg’s other top users are seeing that Digg is becoming more difficult of a social news site to enjoy, and after stepping away from Digg for awhile, I have some thoughts and reflections on how it was and possibly how it should be. The community had to react. Completely.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 13, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk 25 Major News Sites Ranked by Page Speed by Adam Sherk on April 13, 2010 Now that site speed is officially a Google ranking factor, site performance and page load time are important for SEO as well as usability. So which news sites fared best?

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Idaconcpts

MARCH 29, 2011

There are many basic, yet overlooked, tools and plugins that you can add into your website arsenal to add functionality and intention to your business or personal site. YouTube Widget 4.0 : bastawhiz made it easy for anyone to include all of their favorite videos right on their blog or site without having to jump through hoops.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 15, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites on Twitter: Who is Making the Most Impact? But Twitter, Facebook in some cases Digg still represent the majority of social media referrals to many news sites, so they continue to be a priority. 2,461,060 2 @cnnbrk 77.3% 3,139,883 3 @TIME 76.9%

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 16, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Real-time Search Optimization for News Sites by Adam Sherk on March 16, 2010 The major search engines are making real-time search a priority, resulting in good visibility opportunities for news sites especially for breaking news.

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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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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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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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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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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 13, 2019

He actually said to me, “No one searches at Google for a recruiting firm.” Bookmark a site on a social bookmarking site where they can look it up later and where some of their contacts might discover it. Additionally, every one of our posts has a quick link to Delicious, Digg, Reddit and StumbleUpon.

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yMarketingMatters

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The most active are Facebook , LinkedIn , Twitter , Google+ , Pinterest , YouTube , Flickr , and SlideShare. The top bookmarking sites are StumbleUpon , Digg and Delicious. If you use all of these sites — or just one or two — that’s a ton to manage. There are many social networking websites for smaller businesses.

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Firebelly

JULY 13, 2010

» July 13, 2010 Coleman Campsite: The Original Social Networking Site "We're not saying that  Facebook and Myspace got their idea from us, but we're not saying they didn't either." Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « 5 Fun Twitter Quizzes | Main | What the F**k is Social Media NOW?

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Idaconcpts

MARCH 5, 2011

In a move “to encourage a healthy web ecosystem,” Google recently announced a major change to its search algorithm – a move to devalue so-called “content farms” that primarily copy content from other websites, and sites that offer little or no value-added content for users. Tweet This! Share this on Facebook. Share this on LinkedIn.

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Saying It Social

MARCH 22, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Proceed with Caution When Being Active on Social Media Sites Being active on social media networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter is a great way to build business relationships. link] [link] [.]

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 14, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Help Haiti: News Sites Promote Ways to Donate by Adam Sherk on January 14, 2010 As the devastation and human tragedy caused by the Haiti earthquake grows, people are flocking to the news media for information, and more importantly to learn ways that they can help.

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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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Idaconcpts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

One of the most common dilemmas owners of successful sites face is how to expand their web businesses to different countries. Is launching a site in a different country going to have any impact in my existing rankings? Are there any duplicate content issues if all sites are going to be written in the same language (e.g

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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

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

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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Idaconcpts

AUGUST 26, 2010

Many website owners as their businesses expand they come to the dilemma of splitting their sites into a few microsites so they can rank better for their targeted terms. – Reasons to split a site into Microsites. By splitting your site into microsites you will have to remove a great deal of content. Links Farms Issue.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

The story did quite well on Digg and on Reddit, with Reddit users noticing that one of the fish forms actually looked very much like the Reddit logo. The story did quite well on Digg and on Reddit, with Reddit users noticing that one of the fish forms actually looked very much like the Reddit logo. I am enjoying Stumble lately, though.

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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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Bill Hartzer

JUNE 7, 2010

Google has quietly made a change recently in Google Webmaster Tools. Just so you know, when I say “linking&# , I am referring to getting links from other web sites to your web site. Just so you know, when I say “linking&# , I am referring to getting links from other web sites to your web site.

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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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Harp Interactive

MARCH 31, 2010

To begin with there are two types of customer interaction that you should measure and analyze: Consumers who find your website through social media: These consumers increase traffic to your website and since they come to the site qualified (with intent) they also proportionately increase conversions (eventual or immediate revenue).

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Sprout Social

JULY 21, 2022

You could post on community review sites or live-stream it to the masses. Community blogging sites. Social review sites. Social curation and bookmarking sites. Social networking sites. Overview: Social networking sites allow people to connect with each other through a shared online space. What about forums?

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Saying It Social

MARCH 25, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Google To Introduce Opt Out Browser Plug In For Analytics Up until just a few minutes ago when I started reading some reports about what I’m about to tell you, I’ve been a huge Google “junkie&#. What are your feelings?

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