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Five Newsworthy Stories for Your Next Press Release

ProBlogger

Most bloggers understand that online press releases can drive traffic. Press releases are powerful ways to reach people through search. ProBlogger has offered reasons to use press releases to promote a blog, and very sound editorial guidance on how to turn a press release into a blog post.

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Rich Snippets: Increase Google Visibility for Reviews through.

Adam Sherk

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.

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Ripoff Report Strikes Back: Removes Code on Site Left by Hacker

Bill Hartzer

In a recent press release, Ripoff Report claims that they have removed code on their website that was left by a hacker hired by reputation management companies. There are a lot of companies out there that would like negative reviews of their products or services removed from the Ripoff Report website.

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Link Building Tactics for Publishers

Adam Sherk

A good way to investigate this is to review the Crawl Errors report in Google Webmaster Tools, which shows URLs with 404, 500 and other errors that Google encountered while crawling the site. See Press Release Optimization Checklist and Tips for more information). Media relations. Blogger and influencer outreach.

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Do Google's Expanded Domain Results Apply to News and Video Listings?

Adam Sherk

But do the expanded results apply to the embedded news and video listings in the SERPs? But CNN did get two embedded video listings on the page, beating out YouTube: Finally, for the query “mosque near ground zero ABC” NPR and AP got the Google News listings, not ABC.

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How to Get Verified on Instagram in 3 Simple Steps

Hootsuite

It appears in search as well as on your profile and in embedded posts. Once you hit the send button, Instagram will review your application for verification. After reviewing your application, Instagram will notify you whether your request is approved or denied. Instagram reviews each verification manually.

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Yahoo Adds Enhanced News Results to searchmonkey

Adam Sherk

SearchMonkey allows sites to use structured data to include additional information in their Yahoo search results such as addresses and phone numbers, review scores, pricing, etc. Embedding photos will be a good way for publishers to draw attention on the SERPs and increase clickthrough rates. Not sure what SearchMonkey is?

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