Adam Sherk

JULY 30, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Videos in Press Releases are Cool – If They Provide Meaningful Content by Adam Sherk on July 30, 2009 Executive quotes in press releases are notorious for lacking any kind of substantial information. Watch and judge for yourself. Great article!

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Adam Sherk

MAY 26, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Where Do You Want Your Social Media Press Releases to Live? PitchEngine is a good tool that provides a useful service, and it’s reasonably priced (in fact it’s free if you only keep your SMRs on their site for 30 days). However there is also a downside.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 13, 2011

Enter The Age Of Facebook Phone Calls » New Search Engine For Vets If you are a veterinarian or pet doctor, then you now have a new way to market your practice. It’s a search engine for veterinarians powered by Google. There have been search engines launched for specific professions for years.

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 14, 2010

This is only one seo tip out of many search engine optimization tips I have been providing over the years. All of my search engine optimization tips are meant to be specific, they should not take too much time to implement, and are meant to be directly to the point. Web Sites that Rank Well Are Experts. Doing it Yourself.

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 12, 2011

When it comes to optimizing your web site for the search engines , search engine optimization, there are a lot of things that you can do that will hurt your search engine rankings. In fact, there are literally hundreds of different factors that come into play when it comes to search engine optimization.

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Proactive Report

OCTOBER 24, 2011

We need to understand the current media landscape: What journalists need today, how best to work with them, where the opportunities lie for PR news material — and what that means for Press Releases. How does this affect the way we write a press release? The press release is available here.).

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Pew Research News Survey: Findings on Search Engines, Social Networks and Twitter by Adam Sherk on September 13, 2010 The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press has published the results of its latest survey on news consumption and related topics.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular News Sites on YouTube by Adam Sherk on August 31, 2010 YouTube is both a major opportunity and an interesting challenge for news sites. So I thought I’d investigate how well news sites are doing at building channel subscribers and video views.

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Blogs are a source of fresh content, which search engines love. And blog content is more likely to attract natural links from other sites than is standard marketing copy, as it’s inherently more interesting. Public Relations (PR): trying to manually build links from high-quality sites is difficult, tedious and time-consuming.

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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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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Links are very important when it comes to search engine optimization. In the case above, note that “search engine” is near the actual link to Google.com. Links will be given more weight by the search engines, especially Google , when they are surrounded by optimized text.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 24, 2013

On today’s roundup, we’re talking SEO (search engine optimization). Enduring Questions on Press Releases and SEO. Why: Do press releases have search value? Why: Do press releases have search value? Hence the seven posts below. You’re welcome. Google Penguin 2.0 vs. Black Hat SEO.

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 24, 2012

A recruiter friend of mine is currently looking for a Search Engine Marketing Manager. I’ve listed the details of the position, contact Pam directly if you think you qualify for the position: We are currently searching for a full-time, permanent Search Engine Marketing Manager in Mesquite.

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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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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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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 17, 2011

» What’s The Best Discovery Engine? Until Bing called itself a “decision engine,&# not many people had heard that term. And I’d wager to say the same thing about “discovery engine,&# though I like that term. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Companies, businesses, and individual blog owners try out many tactics, but few consider using a press release as a promotional tactic for their blog. Why a press release? Remember not to fall into the trap of overdoing your links in press releases. Remember, press releases reach a community of influencers.

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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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Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 25, 2012

Search engine optimization – The search engines will always be a good source of traffic for your website. Online press release – Distribute a press release through one of the many online press release distribution websites. There are plenty of ways to promote your website.

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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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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 12, 2011

The Most Overused Buzzwords and Marketing Speak in Press Releases by Adam Sherk. Public Relations: The best press release is no press release by MarketingSherpa. Social Media Press Releases and Blogger Outreach. The Art of Creating a Social Media Press Release by Socialfish.

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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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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Share award press releases, graphics and videos in your employee advocacy platform to spread the word. In your advocacy platform, share announcements related to scholarships you fund, off-site volunteer days or donations that support your philanthropic initiatives. At Sprout, this content is our most widely-shared by employees.

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Harp Interactive

DECEMBER 1, 2009

If you have a website that depends on traffic from search engines then your reputation is vulnerable to external forces. These sites become popular because they use certain techniques that attract searchers who are typing in keywords associated with your brand. Use electronic and traditional PR techniques and optimized press releases.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 28, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Article Highlights: Good for Users, Good for Search Engines by Adam Sherk on July 28, 2009 Yesterday Steve Rubel pointed out how the article highlights on sites like CNN.com and iMedia Connection are a good time saver for him.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 25, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk 5 Ways to Deal with Seasonal Dips in Search Engine Traffic by Adam Sherk on August 25, 2009 July and August are a time when many content sites see a seasonal dip in all forms of traffic, including search engine referrals.

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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

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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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

JULY 23, 2009

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. Using di66.net’s 403 14 dailymail.co.uk 387 15 telegraph.co.uk

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 8, 2014

TopSEOs.com, a site that listed the “top SEO firms” in a list (for a fee) has been banned in Google. Saying on the site that there was an “unbiased” review of the SEO firms was completely false. No official word from Google yet why the site was banned. Search Engine Marketing Firms'

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The Social Media Incubator

AUGUST 19, 2013

Here are our top 7 tactics for promoting your brick-and-mortar business online: Press release distribution – Have something newsworthy in your business to talk about? Write a press release and distribute it online to services like PRWeb. You don’t have to be an online business to do so.

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Bill Hartzer

JULY 31, 2013

I think the title of this post, “be careful when choosing an SEO” (search engine optimization) professional really says it all. Dear Site Owner, A while ago, the task search engines were accomplishing was to deliver a result page matching the keywords in the query box. Search Engine Optimization'

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Proactive Report

JUNE 2, 2014

There have been signs that Google is not too thrilled with press releases. Matt Cutts, Senior Search Engineer at Google stated that Google regards a press release as owned content and does not give the links in a release any SEO value. has affected press release sites.

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 12, 2012

And some multi-author blogs have morphed into hybrid portal/news/blog sites that are difficult to categorize. How can you make a press release more friendly to blogs, Twitter and search engines? How to Turn a Blog Post into a Press Release by ProBlogger.

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Bill Hartzer

AUGUST 22, 2011

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. In one of my recent blog posts, I examined how removing your website from Google can help–or hurt–your search engine rankings.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But at this early stage, how strong are the marketing opportunities for news sites? At a minimum news sites should set up an official profile and experiment with “buzz this” buttons on their templates. Facebook itself is making a push to get users to create personalized news channels that benefit both users and news sites.

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