Convince & Convert

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

MarketingPodcasts.com is a discovery engine for marketing podcasts. I decided to build this site because I was incredibly frustrated by how difficult it was to find good marketing podcasts , other than just by random word of mouth. If you already listen to marketing podcasts, this site is a game changer for you. And we did it!

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 21, 2012

Search engine optimization is not all about gaining inbound links. The first is linking to an external site, and while the argument has often flowed regarding the leaking of ‘link juice’, if you link to authority pages, you won’t harm your rankings at all. There are two forms of on page linking to consider.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 22, 2012

For most of Internet history there has been a growing battle between on-site SEO and off-site SEO. Put another way, marketers have debated the relative value of on-site content and off-site content ever since the advent of the World Wide Web. Other marketers will sing the praises of on-site content.

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 8, 2012

For most publishers social media has earned itself a prominent seat at the audience development table. To provide a strategic overview and set a framework for the discussion I came up with a list of questions that summarizes the types of issues we frequently encounter in helping publishers with social media.

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Oktopost

MAY 16, 2022

Transforming Social Media into a B2B Growth Engine through Employee Advocacy. Through employee advocacy with Oktopost, Andrew has turned social into an engine for talent acquisition and lead generation. As with any content published on social media, the value-add has to be in place.

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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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SocMed Sean

JANUARY 22, 2013

This sure opens up a lot of possibilities, from redirecting an old URL to a new address, to helping clean up the complex or nonsensical URL that is coming from an abysmal publishing system – providing you with a URL that is not only user-friendly but also search engine-friendly. By default, WordPress has a terrible URL structure.

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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

JUNE 25, 2013

The FTC has sent a letter to many of the major search engines, including AOL, Ask.com, Bing, Blekko, DuckDuckGo, Google, and Yahoo!, the FTC is warning the search engines that consumers must be notified that paid ads are paid ads–and it must be very clear which search results include paid ads and which do not.

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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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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 21, 2022

Check their Amazon app or social media sites for reviews from other customers. A 2020s website should act as a hub for all marketing activities, including email marketing, link-building, content marketing, search engine optimization (SEO), mobile marketing, PPC advertising, and much more. Create On-Site SEO Content.

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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. The Most Buried News Sites on Digg News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers?

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Bill Hartzer

JUNE 24, 2014

Once the site’s re-indexed again properly and not considered to be a “parked domain” by Google, I’ll work on developing the site. So, you have to be a web designer (which I’m not) in order to create a site. Badly coded sites are an SEOs dream, as there’s plenty of stuff for us to fix.

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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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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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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

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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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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Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Social media marketing involves running social media advertisements, publishing content, listening to and engaging your customers, and analyzing the success of your marketing efforts. This document should outline how often you plan to publish on each social media platform and the types of content to post. Source: Pixabay.

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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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Social Media Strategies Summit

APRIL 11, 2024

Even something as basic as calling attention to a link in your bio — as Sherwin Williams does below — can be an excellent way to increase site traffic. For example, if you check out Breaking Eighty , you’ll find that the business regularly publishes video versions of its most popular articles on YouTube.

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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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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

The same goes for publishing content. With so many moving parts that take place even before you press “Publish,” a checklist can seriously come in handy. We’ve all had those cringe-worthy moments when we see a typo or two in a blog we just published. Is my content error-free? How could we have missed that?!

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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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Kikolani

JUNE 20, 2011

After some emails back and forth with a potential guest blogger on my site, he suggested I write a little guide on how to submit a guest post in a way that will increase the likelihood of getting it published. I’ve had some guest bloggers utilize their posts on other sites to get more opportunities. Have great timing.

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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

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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Oktopost

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The search engine recognizes that it’s easy for website owners to place these links, thus downgrading their value. And besides that, most sites only offer no-follow links. That’s why you can optimize not only your website for search engines, but social media pages as well. Social signals. How to use social media for SEO.

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Webbiquity SMM

JULY 23, 2013

Given that more than 90% of both business-to-business and local consumer purchases now begin with online search, search engine optimization (SEO) has become essential for business success. GetListed.org , a site that evaluates your business presence and directly connects to more than a dozen such directories, is a great place to start.

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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. Which News Sites Have the Most Valuable Facebook Pages? {

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 3, 2013

Sponsored content in various forms is growing in popularity as publishers seek additional sources of revenue. Done well it can be a good fit for both publishers and advertisers, and dare I say even add value for users. How do publishers ensure that sponsored content complies with Google’s guidelines?

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 4, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers? by Adam Sherk on August 4, 2010 The new Digg has gotten a lot of attention for the opportunities it creates for publishers (see ReadWriteWeb and BlueGlass for details).

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Twist Image

MARCH 20, 2012

Last week, Tom Foremski had a post over at ZDNet titled, Report: 51% of web site traffic is 'non-human' and mostly malicious. The study is based on a sample of 1000 websites/clients of Incapsula): 5% is hacking tools searching for an unpatched or new vulnerability in a web site. online publisher. search engine indexing.

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SocMed Sean

JANUARY 27, 2022

As more content is created and published online, opportunities to earn money as a content creator are growing rapidly. Using your blog to earn money through advertising revenue is where advertisers pay you to place ads on your blog site. The internet continues to grow with no end in sight. And blogging is big. Blogging ad revenue.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Is Using Facebook Comments Good for Publishers? The post on Facebook analytics tools did well considering I just published it last week. For some it was search referrals, for others tweets or LinkedIn shares, and it some cases it was a link or links on other sites. Beyond Facebook Insights: Useful Facebook Analytics Tools.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Better yet, Would you want to distribute that data for free to online and mobile directory publishers? UniversalBusinessListing.org (UBL) and Locationary have announced a strategic partnership to manage and distribute business profile data free to online and mobile directory publishers. Well, here is a great new option.

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