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We Interrupt This Lifecast: Syndication Overload (Part 2)

Firebelly

This week, however, I want to talk about those who aggregate content from all over the web and syndicate it through their Twitter streams. This week, however, I want to talk about those who aggregate content from all over the web and syndicate it through their Twitter streams. What do you think? Your comment has not yet been posted.

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

Adam Sherk

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

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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We Interrupt This Lifecast: Syndication Overload (Part 1)

Firebelly

Social technologies make syndication and aggregation simple. Syndicating all of your tweets into your Facebook status updates is inconsiderate. It allows you to update your Facebook status from Twitter, but you can choose which tweets you want to syndicate by ending the tweet with the hashtag #fb. Its annoying. Am I alone here?

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

Adam Sherk

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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Mike Dillard Sues Website Owner Over Manipulative Search Engine Optimization Techniques

Bill Hartzer

In fact, it appears that all of this is because of organic search engine listings in the Google search engine. “Like most internet search engines, Google uses a large index of keywords and where those words can be found online. . Since when are “manipulative search engine optimization techniques&# a crime?

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5 Ways to Deal with Seasonal Dips in Search Engine Traffic

Adam Sherk

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.