Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Whenever I do a presentation on Google+ for publishers I mention that quite a few news and content brands are among the most followed pages. The point being that Google+ does indeed offer good opportunities for audience development, engagement and content promotion. The Most Followed News and Content Sites on Google+.

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News Sites Google Content 161

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 10, 2012

News organizations (along with businesses of all kinds) have been able to create official Google+ pages for a couple months now so I thought I’d check in and see how their pages are doing. Here are 45 news organizations ranked by the combined figure of total +1’s, shares and comments per post: Google+ Page +1's. New York Magazine 0.19

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Organization News Engagement Google 218

Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Sharing and discussing content is a key component of Google Buzz, so it’s a natural fit for article promotion and audience development. To what degree that happens depends on how well Google does at improving the interface and functionality. But will it ever catch up with Facebook? Does Google Want Brands in Your Social Circle?

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Sites News Google Facebook 118

Buffer Social

JULY 28, 2022

A Google Business Profile is a hidden gem that many small business owners can use to their advantage. Just as search engine optimization can fuel your growth in the Google rankings, Google Business Profiles are another way to direct eyes from organic searches to your business.

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Google Insurance How To Types 82

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 14, 2010

I saw Malcolm Coles’ post on Google’s reading level scores for UK newspapers and thought it would be fun to do the same thing for US news sites. Last week Google released a new search filter that allows users to refine search results by reading level. So what reading level does Google assign to major news sites in the US?

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Sites News Google Yahoo 232

Twist Image

JULY 1, 2014

Facebook is messing with your mind, people. There is this very real, very public outcry against Facebook (again). Since the news broke, Facebook has explained and apologized for this incident (the incident took place in 2012). Ask yourself this: who is Facebook''s customer? what''s wrong with you? It''s about the ethics.

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Adwords Facebook Advertising Embedding 94

Idaconcpts

JUNE 29, 2012

Google+, the social media product of the search behemoth Google, has made several changes recently in an effort to court new users and to continue developing the product as a key social tool. There has been speculation that Google could potentially announce a product that will end up filling that space on users’ screens.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Eighty-three per cent of Canadians are on Facebook and almost 77 per cent use it daily. Before 2005 this would have included customer magazines, flyers or newsletters. Encouraging residents’ to leave Google Reviews will drive the apartments’ website up search rankings and build word of mouth.

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Marketing Syndication Adwords News 195

Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google News Optimization Tips by Adam Sherk on September 3, 2009 This week Google put out a video to give publishers more information on how Google News works and how best to optimize for it. This is data driven and not an “arbitrary decision.”

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News Google Tips Press Release 158

Sherrilynne Starkie

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Eighty-four per cent of Canadians are on Facebook and almost 80 per cent use it daily. Magazine reading time down 77.5 Before 2005 this would have included customer magazines, flyers or newsletters. Our campaign research indicated that Facebook and Twitter were the best channels to promote the apartments.

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Marketing Syndication Adwords Social Media 199

Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Everybody’s been arguing over the value of Google Plus lately. Well, Google just changed the conversation in a big way and just in time. The announcement of Google pages for business came just in time to turn the whole argument on it’s head. Because this is clearly a direct assault on Facebook pages.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 10, 2012

The demographics of Google+ are typically described as predominantly male and young. But that is not always the case; sites that are geared towards women are drawing a Google+ audience that is largely female. For example, take a look at the +1 Audience Report from the Google Webmaster Tools profile of a major fashion site.

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Google Fashion Sites Report 119

Convince & Convert

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Apart from the obvious tools (like Facebook and Tweet/Analytics), here are five tools to help you come up with new social media advertising tactics: 1. For example, I asked to come up with buyer personas for the campaign: Come up with buyer personas we are targeting on Facebook and craft a copy for each one.

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Advertising Social Media Strategy Tools 105

Kikolani

MARCH 13, 2013

If you follow my writing, you probably know how much I love Google Reader. On July 1st, Google Reader says goodbye. The Learn More takes you to a page that tells you what you can export using their Google Takeout tool, but nothing in the way of alternatives. A Little About How I Use(d) Google Reader. That’s right.

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Google Reader RSS Netvibes Google 168

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Let me be clear: I am still bullish on Facebook. I am not bullish on advertising as Facebook's main revenue model. In March of 2011, I wrote a blog post titled, F-Commerce - Rise Of The Facebook Consumer. I never liked Facebook as an advertising platform. I love Facebook as an economy. Facebook is an economy.

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Adwords Facebook Retail Apple 102

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MAY 26, 2016

Are you struggling with Facebook ads targeting? Discovering what your perfect customers are interested in is one of the most crucial parts of Facebook advertising. Why Facebook Audience Insights Matters. The greatest thing about Facebook advertising is the ability to reach super specific audiences. Select Your Audience.

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Facebook How To Advertising Campaign 152

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? But CNN did get two embedded video listings on the page, beating out YouTube: Finally, for the query “mosque near ground zero ABC” NPR and AP got the Google News listings, not ABC.

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News List Google Embedding 113

Sherrilynne Starkie

MARCH 28, 2013

Official Blog: Google Keep-Save what's on your mind. Usually we grab a pad of sticky-notes, scribble a reminder and put it on the desk, the fridge or the relevant page of a magazine. Facebook starts testing nested comments, sound notifications | Digital Trends. Related posts: Does Facebook affect your brain? crowd rank.

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Social Media Curation LinkedIn Notification 302

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 20, 2009

Google employee “Inbal” later provided a more specific time window, indicating “the rate at which we recrawl may vary, but we try to go back and check for changes in article content within the first 12 hours after we first find it.” I went looking for an updated story in Google News today and was able to find an example.

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News Google Syndication Press Release 101

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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Sites News Engagement Facebook 238

Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2014

Facebook is the largest voluntary, non-religious organization in the history of the world. Facebook organic reach for business pages is plummeting, and will drop even further because Facebook is a public company that has fiduciary responsibilities to their shareholders to maximize returns. They are not dumb. ” tool.

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Banking Facebook Case Study Price 167

Adam Sherk

APRIL 5, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular MLB Teams on Twitter and Facebook by Adam Sherk on April 5, 2010 A new baseball season is underway and we are in that wonderfully brief period when fans all over the country still believe this could actually be the year for their team.

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Team Twitter Facebook Comparison 204

Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Apart from the usual layoffs, cost reduction, and restructuring, we have seen newspapers and magazines getting thinner, TV stations cutting back on programming, and several publications and channels are on the block. Business Standard sold its motoring magazine to Delhi Press. 2,260 crore (~ $364.5M) and is expected to touch Rs.2,938

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comScore Smart Phone SMS Advertising 199

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers? by Adam Sherk on December 1, 2009 In November Google announced a new format for Google News Sitemaps with several changes including new tags that provide additional detail on each submitted article.

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News Publishing Google Press Release 104

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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News Sites Yahoo Facebook 181

Idaconcpts

DECEMBER 27, 2010

The Palo Alto-based social networking giant is a privately held company, and its shares are not listed on the NASDAQ or the New York Stock Exchange alongside Google, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, or any of the other publicly traded Silicon Valley behemoths – at least for now. Unsurprisingly.

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Facebook Technorati StumbleUpon Digg 174

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google Social Search: Are You in Your Target Audiences’ Social Circles? So if you link to your Twitter account on your Google profile the people you’re following on Twitter become part of your social circle. If not how do we get there?

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Google Google Reader Press Release Survey 109

Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Believe it or not, being indexed in Google and Google News is actually good for news sites. Google-less? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? I’d actually like to see this happen…it would make for an interesting case study demonstrating that the only one hurt by such a deal is News Corp itself.

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News Google Hitwise Press Release 101

Adam Sherk

MAY 13, 2009

Initially Google is supporting data on reviews and people. Initially Google is supporting data on reviews and people. You can follow Google’s guidelines for marking up structured data to learn how to do it, including the specific properties for reviews. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Review Google Embedding Press Release 100

Adam Sherk

MAY 22, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines? So it appears this tip is intended to make it easier for Google News to understand the correct title for articles, as opposed to being a “must do&# to prevent an issue.

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News Google Syndication Press Release 100

Adam Sherk

JUNE 5, 2009

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. Is Google going to run out and start penalizing sites with sponsored links in JavaScript? JVC Facebook Page Sweepstakes a Big Success.

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Publishing Google NoFollow Guidelines 100

Adam Sherk

MAY 4, 2010

In my post on the most popular NBA teams on Twitter and Facebook (and the more recent one on MLB teams ) I looked strictly at the following each team has built up. This time I’ll compare user engagement on each team’s Facebook page. But Does it Violate Facebook Guidelines? { What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Team Engagement Facebook Press Release 165

Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Despite this, fans are passionately supporting and discussing their teams through a range of social media outlets, in particular Twitter and Facebook. In the table below the 32 NFL teams are ranked by the total number of followers/fans on their official Twitter accounts and Facebook pages.

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Team Twitter Facebook Sports 209

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 16, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk JVC Facebook Page Sweepstakes a Big Success. But Does it Violate Facebook Guidelines? But does it violate Facebook’s promotions guidelines? Which part of the Facebook guidelines JVC USA is violating was not specified. Apparently it does.

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RFI Guidelines Facebook Press Release 156

Laurel Papworth

JULY 4, 2023

This course aims to not only ensure you are familiar and able to use OpenAI (ChatGPT and Dall-e) and Midjourney or StableDiffusion but understand Google, Amazon, other Microsoft AI, FAIR (Facebook AI) and current innovations in artificial intelligence.

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Overview Policies API Course 52

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? The key takeaway: the more ways you can bring your Facebook Pages to life, the better.

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Press Release Facebook Syndication Blogroll 138

Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Facebook So how about Facebook? This is likely connected to the launch of the external Facebook “like” button and the fact that Facebook page promotion is much more prevalent than it was even a year ago. The Detroit Lions and Houston Texans have also grown considerably but their total counts are still comparatively low.

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