Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2010

The Economist The Economist has multiple customized tabs for subscription, featured articles and a news quiz: Fox News Fox News offers a more visual and interactive experience through its “Fun Stuff” tab: Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune uses a welcome tab to highlight sections and features from its main site: Yahoo!

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Specific to search, you can drill down on what percentage of total traffic comes from search engines and get a breakdown by engine and vertical (i.e. It provides fairly extensive data on the audience and traffic sources for any site (including direct, search, social and paid). web, news, image, video and shopping search).

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

PostRank Engagement Score 1 The New York Times 11,292,352 2 CNN 7,413,850 3 BBC News 6,760,101 4 Yahoo News 5,894,236 5 The Guardian 4,906,694 6 The Huffington Post 4,721,214 7 Slate 3,526,905 8 The Wall Street Journal 3,354,520 9 Reuters 2,891,586 10 The Washington Post 2,415,594 11 Los Angeles Times 1,919,978 12 Fox News 1,690,950 13 Telegraph.co.uk

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Why wouldn’t you try to increase the search engine visibility of your press materials? Check what news stories and press releases currently come up for your top candidates in Google News and Yahoo News. Look for keyword phrases with reasonable search volume that accurately convey the key concept. How much competition is there?

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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. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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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. The major engines all produce some form of hot topic/trend list, and several third-party and social media sites do as well. Does this work? So how do you monitor these trends?

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 20, 2009

Previously the only way to get the more comprehensive version into Google News was to republish the article on a new URL, which was not the best experience for either on-site or search engine users. I went looking for an updated story in Google News today and was able to find an example. Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers?

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Adam Sherk

JULY 23, 2009

CNN wins the prize for the most buried news site, with Yahoo News not too far behind: Site Buried 1 cnn.com 3064 2 news.yahoo.com 2723 3 news.bbc.co.uk CNN wins the prize for the most buried news site, with Yahoo News not too far behind: Site Buried 1 cnn.com 3064 2 news.yahoo.com 2723 3 news.bbc.co.uk Using di66.net’s

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

With Blekko officially launching this week the new search engine is getting a lot of attention particularly in the search marketing community because of SEO data it provides. There is a good overview of Blekko’s SEO Tools on Search Engine Land so I won’t go into detail on that here. 13 Yahoo News 3,779.8 1 BBC News 7,660.6

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

And throughout December we’ve gotten top 2009 searches lists from Google , Yahoo , Bing and Ask. Things that news and content sites should look at include: What terms and content types brought in the most search engine referral traffic? What sections, special features, individual articles, etc. were most (and least) popular?

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

And if I want to get an overview of the current news of the day I’ll go to Google News or Yahoo! 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. News , or direct navigate to a major news site.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

And if I want to get an overview of the current news of the day I’ll go to Google News or Yahoo! 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. News , or direct navigate to a major news site.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2010

2) I also did not find a channel for Yahoo! News or AOL News although there is a general channel for Yahoo! There is a main channel for the network and multiple channels for local affiliate stations, but I could not find one for NBC News. that does include some news videos. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Adam Sherk February 26, 2010 at 9:46 am On a different note, the irony is not lost on me that my post on retweet buttons has gotten hardly any retweets Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

MAY 22, 2009

But linking with the article headline is something that publishers should do when possible. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

MAY 13, 2009

Related posts: Yahoo Adds Enhanced News Results to SearchMonkey Google Social Search: Are You in Your Target Audiences’ Social Circles? Google JavaScript Changes Put Publishers in Violation of Sponsored Link Guidelines Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

MAY 15, 2009

Fortunately this week The New York Times Chief Search Strategist Marshall Simmonds (disclosure: I work for Marshall) was able to make a statement to Search Engine Land to shed some light on the matter. But there is usually more to the story, and for a number of reasons companies aren’t always at liberty to share all the information.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 30, 2009

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. The only way to completely eliminate the issue is to require syndication partners to block their versions from the engines.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 8, 2010

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. In looking at a selection of other articles in some cases only the “Sources” sidebar link is provided; The Wrap has also claimed that sometimes no attribution link was provided at all.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 4, 2010

5,621 68 1,435 2 6 Huffington Post 4,773 8 767 3 7 Forbes 3,661 52 3,958 0 8 The Washington Post 1,941 6 670 0 9 Los Angeles Times 1,899 95 3,620 0 10 USA Today 1,874 0 591 0 11 Breaking News 1,695 50 1,257 0 12 MSNBC 1,573 6 2,465 0 13 Slate Magazine 1,537 18 658 7 14 Reuters 1,531 0 5,740 1 15 Yahoo!

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Since most syndication partners will not agree to block their duplicate versions from search engines, the current best practices are built around reducing the risk of being outranked as opposed to eliminating it. It will be interesting to see if publishers are able to get a rel=&# canonical&# requirement added to future syndication contracts.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 17, 2010

585 243 91 $6,318 CNN earns the #1 spot by a considerable margin but The New York Times , Fox News and NPR also have impressive valuations. Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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