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Syndication Best Practices: Reduce the Risk of Being Outranked for.

Adam Sherk

JUNE 30, 2009

However from an SEO perspective there is a downside, as syndication creates duplicate content issues. Search engines don’t want to show users multiple versions of the same content, so when an article has been syndicated it’s likely that one version will be given prominence – and that may or may not be the original.

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Yahoo News Syndication: Attribution Links Not SEO-Friendly

Adam Sherk

JULY 9, 2009

In looking at syndicated content on Yahoo News, most of the syndicated articles do not include attribution links (each news source likely has to request or provide them), but among those that do exist there is a problem. Will Publishers Add Cross-Domain Rel=Canonical to Syndication Deals?

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Pew Research Survey: Findings on Search Engines, Social Networks.

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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Five Reasons Why I Love Wordpress

Firebelly

OCTOBER 23, 2009

. | Main | Stop tweeting about the # of followers you have » October 23, 2009 Five Reasons Why I Love Wordpress WordPress was originally made as a blog publishing application but has now evolved into a huge content management system (CMS). As of September 2009, Wordpress is used by 62.8 Do you love WordPress ?

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Article Highlights: Good for Users, Good for Search Engines

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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Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the.

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. What you should be doing is avoiding duplicate content altogether.

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5 Ways to Deal with Seasonal Dips in Search Engine Traffic

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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Google javascript Changes Put Publishers in Violation of Sponsored.

Adam Sherk

JUNE 5, 2009

Vanessa Fox did an extensive write-up for Search Engine Land which covers the changes in detail. While it’s good news that Google is continuing to improve its ability to deal with JavaScript, this change also impacts the way that many publishers display sponsored links on their sites. JVC Facebook Page Sweepstakes a Big Success.

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Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers?

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers? That may be getting carried away but the new format does have some advantages for publishers, although they are not being fully utilized by Google News yet. The main opportunity comes from the new tags.

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The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites

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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What Blog Platform Is Best for Your Business?

Socialmedia.biz

JUNE 25, 2018

There are still tons of businesses out there that don’t even have a basic website set up yet, much less one that includes a blog with regularly-published blog posts. With all the talk about self-hosted blogs, WordPress, website builders and free blog sites, how do you know which method to choose? Spoiler: It’s WordPress.

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Pro PR Tips: 100 Tips from Rafe Needleman Published in a Book

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 11, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Pro PR Tips: 100 PR Tips from Rafe Needleman Published as a Book by Adam Sherk on August 11, 2009 Yesterday I received a copy of Rafe Needleman ’s Pro PR Tips in the mail from ITDatabase. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Google News Now Recrawling Updated Articles

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 20, 2009

This is encouraging news for publishers as previously once an article was indexed in Google News no changes or updates to it would be registered. This is encouraging news for publishers as previously once an article was indexed in Google News no changes or updates to it would be registered.

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How to Control Rich Snippets on Social Media

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Snippets also show up in search engine results when a piece of content is listed (although Google occasionally rebels by replacing them with its own inexplicably bizarre findings). Social media snippets and search engine snippets are created the same way: via the page title and page description, also called meta titles and meta descriptions.

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Social Media How To WordPress SEO

Social Media Dominates 2010 PR Planning, But SEO Increasingly in.

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 2, 2009

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Vocus SEO Social Media Press Release

Server Melting Traffic Generation Methods

Kikolani

AUGUST 6, 2012

Many of you know me as the Search Engine Optimization guy. Really Simple Syndication. Within your WordPress backend, if you’ll go to your “Settings” tab, and scroll down to your “Writing” tab, you’ll come to your default Ping settings, from within your WordPress blog/site.

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Borrowing Content Was Happening Long Before Blogging

Adam Sherk

MAY 12, 2010

Actually it would work online, if not for search engines giving users access to everything in one place and filtering out duplicate content to improve their experience. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme. That works great in print and broadcast but not so much online.

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

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 24, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Do Google’s Expanded Domain Results Apply to News and Video Listings? This gives publishers the opportunity for greater exposure to users looking for content from their specific site (and who may not be familiar with the “site:” search operator).

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Yahoo Adds Enhanced News Results to searchmonkey

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Yahoo Adds Enhanced News Results to SearchMonkey by Adam Sherk on August 31, 2009 On Friday Yahoo announced new additions to its SearchMonkey enhanced results, including options for news content. For technical details and instructions see the SearchMonkey News help page.

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PEJ Study Shows Print Still Primary Source of Original News Reporting

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 11, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk PEJ Study Shows Print Still Primary Source of Original News Reporting by Adam Sherk on January 11, 2010 The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released a study today of the modern news ecosystem, examining a week of news activity in Baltimore, MD.

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News Sites Not Making Much Use of Static FBML on Facebook Pages

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.

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Alicia Keys Facebook Page: I'd Sign Up if She Asked Me All Cool

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 19, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Alicia Keys Facebook Page: I’d Sign Up if She Asked Me All Cool by Adam Sherk on January 19, 2010 Want to use your Facebook Page to build out your mailing list? Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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Make the Most of Your Retweet Buttons

Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Make the Most of Your Retweet Buttons by Adam Sherk on February 25, 2010 In working on my presentation for the Twitter Marketing Tactics session at SMX West next week I’ve been looking at the various types of share and retweet buttons used on news sites.

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Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage.

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage of Site Traffic by Adam Sherk on October 23, 2009 Yesterday posts from eMarketer and Marketing Pilgrim called my attention to some interesting social media statistics put out by advertising network Chitika.

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Free Tools for Monitoring Hot Search Trends

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Many search trends come and go quickly, so sites that cover a topic after its peak will likely miss out on the larger search engine visibility opportunity. Many search trends come and go quickly, so sites that cover a topic after its peak will likely miss out on the larger search engine visibility opportunity. Does this work?

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Hitwise Reports News and Media's Share of Search-Referred Traffic.

Adam Sherk

MAY 19, 2009

It’s also worth noting that a lot of major publishers still get a huge portion of their traffic from direct navigation. So total natural search engine referral traffic is a more important measuring stick than what percentage of site traffic comes from natural search. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Hitwise News Report Press Release

Hitwise Reports News and Media's Share of Search-Referred Traffic.

Adam Sherk

MAY 19, 2009

It’s also worth noting that a lot of major publishers still get a huge portion of their traffic from direct navigation. So total natural search engine referral traffic is a more important measuring stick than what percentage of site traffic comes from natural search. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

Hitwise

Hitwise News Report Press Release

Search Marketing Dwarfs Social Media in Interactive Marketing Budgets

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Search Marketing Dwarfs Social Media in Interactive Marketing Budgets by Adam Sherk on December 17, 2009 This week both Brian Solis and SEOMoz made reference to a recent Forrester report forecasting US interactive marketing budgets for the next five years.

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My Top 10 Posts of 2009 on News Media, SEO and Social Media

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 4, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk My Top 10 Posts of 2009 on News Media, SEO and Social Media by Adam Sherk on January 4, 2010 I was going to post this last week but then opted wisely for letting myself enjoy a holiday break. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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Newsweek on Tumblr: Good Effort, Needs More Engagement

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 6, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Newsweek on Tumblr: Good Effort, Needs More Engagement by Adam Sherk on January 6, 2010 Awareness of Newsweek’s Tumblr site has been increasing of late. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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How to Identify Your Own Top Trends of 2009

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk How to Identify Your Own Top Trends by Adam Sherk on December 22, 2009 Yesterday Facebook shared its Top Status Trends of 2009 , providing insight into what terms most commonly occurred in users’ status updates. What sections, special features, individual articles, etc.

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Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines?

Adam Sherk

MAY 22, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines? The headline/title tag tip is also included in their Help for Publishers guidelines on article titles ). But linking with the article headline is something that publishers should do when possible.

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NBC Targets Local Markets on the New Digg

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 11, 2010

This is particularly appealing for publishers with content that may be of interest to specific audiences as opposed to the wider Digg user base. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme. Will it work with local news? NBC is trying to find out. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Hearst Skiff Reader Looks Cool

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 7, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Hearst Skiff Reader Looks Cool by Adam Sherk on January 7, 2010 Hearst’s Skiff Reader is being unveiled at CES this week. It’s an interesting project and it is good to see publishers trying new things, however slow to move they may have been to-date.

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Great Example of a Multimedia News Article from ESPN.com

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 14, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Great Example of a Multimedia News Article from ESPN.com by Adam Sherk on August 14, 2009 Recently I wrote about the importance of including meaningful content in videos embedded in press releases. So far Google seems to agree.

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Do People Search for “Breaking News”?

Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Do People Search for “Breaking News”? But I don’t think I’d ever simply type “breaking news” into a search engine. It would be interesting to learn how much search engine traffic they are getting from that specific term.

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News Hitwise Press Release Syndication

Do People Search for “Breaking News”?

Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Do People Search for “Breaking News”? But I don’t think I’d ever simply type “breaking news” into a search engine. It would be interesting to learn how much search engine traffic they are getting from that specific term.

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Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About.

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 21, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About Reliability of Information by Adam Sherk on January 21, 2010 Yesterday Cision released the results of their Social Media and Online Usage Study, a survey of social media usage by print and Web journalists.

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I Hope News Corp Does Block its Content from Google

Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

It would also be interesting to see how Microsoft addresses the financial realities of trying to extend such an arrangement to a larger group of publishers. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme. Believe it or not, being indexed in Google and Google News is actually good for news sites.

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News Sites: Tame Your Blog Tags

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? Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers? And I always laugh at that because it’s really not that needed.”

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Why the News Business Isn't Profitable

Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Why the News Business Isn’t Profitable by Guest on September 10, 2010 This is a guest post from Aaron Goldman , author of Everything I Know about Marketing I Learned from Google. So, to all those publishers out there who built their businesses on news.

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Your Mom's Coming to Facebook, But She May Not Stick Around

Adam Sherk

MAY 29, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Your Mom’s Coming to Facebook, But She May Not Stick Around by Adam Sherk on May 29, 2009 Inside Facebook published some new statistics this week on Facebook’s US audience growth over the last 60 days. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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The Wrap, Newser and Content Aggregation: How Much Attribution is.

Adam Sherk

APRIL 8, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Wrap, Newser and Content Aggregation: How Much Attribution is Enough? A sidebar link may not get proper attention from either users or search engines, so a link should be placed within the actual editorial content.

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Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get the Most Engagement?

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? Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme. in the sidebars and subpages. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

Sites

Sites News Engagement Facebook

Syndication Best Practices: Reduce the Risk of Being Outranked for.

Yahoo News Syndication: Attribution Links Not SEO-Friendly

Pew Research Survey: Findings on Search Engines, Social Networks.

Five Reasons Why I Love Wordpress

Article Highlights: Good for Users, Good for Search Engines

Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the.

5 Ways to Deal with Seasonal Dips in Search Engine Traffic

Google javascript Changes Put Publishers in Violation of Sponsored.

Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers?

The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites

What Blog Platform Is Best for Your Business?

Pro PR Tips: 100 Tips from Rafe Needleman Published in a Book

Google News Now Recrawling Updated Articles

How to Control Rich Snippets on Social Media

Social Media Dominates 2010 PR Planning, But SEO Increasingly in.

Server Melting Traffic Generation Methods

Borrowing Content Was Happening Long Before Blogging

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

Yahoo Adds Enhanced News Results to searchmonkey

PEJ Study Shows Print Still Primary Source of Original News Reporting

News Sites Not Making Much Use of Static FBML on Facebook Pages

Alicia Keys Facebook Page: I'd Sign Up if She Asked Me All Cool

Make the Most of Your Retweet Buttons

Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage.

Free Tools for Monitoring Hot Search Trends

Hitwise Reports News and Media's Share of Search-Referred Traffic.

Hitwise Reports News and Media's Share of Search-Referred Traffic.

Search Marketing Dwarfs Social Media in Interactive Marketing Budgets

My Top 10 Posts of 2009 on News Media, SEO and Social Media

Newsweek on Tumblr: Good Effort, Needs More Engagement

How to Identify Your Own Top Trends of 2009

Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines?

NBC Targets Local Markets on the New Digg

Hearst Skiff Reader Looks Cool

Great Example of a Multimedia News Article from ESPN.com

Do People Search for “Breaking News”?

Do People Search for “Breaking News”?

Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About.

I Hope News Corp Does Block its Content from Google

News Sites: Tame Your Blog Tags

Why the News Business Isn't Profitable

Your Mom's Coming to Facebook, But She May Not Stick Around

The Wrap, Newser and Content Aggregation: How Much Attribution is.

Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get the Most Engagement?

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