Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Based on first impressions, I have to say I like The Washington Post’s Social Reader on Facebook. For more background information check out Robert Scoble’s video interview with company chairman Don Graham. Related posts: More Content Shared on Facebook but Twitter Click-through Rate Much Higher.

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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. To get your videos into Google News you need to create a YouTube channel.

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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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Adam Sherk

JUNE 16, 2011

That’s interesting in and of itself, as marketers sometimes (over) generalize that men prefer Twitter while Facebook is more appealing to women. Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About Reliability of Information. How about age? PEJ Study Shows Print Still Primary Source of Original News Reporting.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 20, 2010

There is additional information in the NYTco press release , and Jim Romenesko and others have published the staff memo. UPDATE: For those interested in more actual information, NYTco. We can probably say that Google and others will continue to provide information and news of events worldwide for those who search for it.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

For in-depth Panda analysis I also recommend checking out Glenn Gabe , who frequently shares useful information on the subject. Related posts: Google Buzz and News Sites: Good Potential But Facebook Still the Better Play. The Washington Post Social Reader on Facebook: Good First Impression, Good User Experience.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2009

SearchMonkey allows sites to use structured data to include additional information in their Yahoo search results such as addresses and phone numbers, review scores, pricing, etc. There’s some background information on the Yahoo Developer Network: SearchMonkey. Not sure what SearchMonkey is?

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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.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 13, 2009

For more information check out: Introducing Rich Snippets Google Search Now Supports Microformats and Adds “Rich Snippets&# to Search Results UPDATE: Since the initial introduction Google has added Rich Snippets support for video and events. Initially Google is supporting data on reviews and people.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 11, 2010

Of the stories in Baltimore that week that contained new information, 95% came from traditional media and the majority of that from newspapers: So newspapers can pat themselves on the back for another day. You can get the details from the study itself but I wanted to point out a couple things that caught my attention.

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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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Adam Sherk

MAY 15, 2012

And Facebook. Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About Reliability of Information. –My press release. Did you get it? I emailed it to you. Three times. We get a lot of releases. –But mine is really important. I sent it to you on Twitter. And Google+. I took a picture of it and shared it on Pinterest.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 14, 2015

As a user I like the new hosted and mobile-specific article formats, be that Facebook Instant Articles , Apple News Format or Google’s AMP project. The support information on the Google Developers site covers the main opportunities. Are you taking full advantage of these opportunities? Hosted and Mobile-Specific Article Formats.

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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. main profiles, personas, individual staff members, etc).

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 15, 2010

by Adam Sherk on June 15, 2010 I have done several posts on news organizations and Facebook recently so I thought it was time to switch things up and look at Twitter again. 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.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 17, 2009

I appreciate your effort in posting this kind of information. Thank you for keeping us informed. 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

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Related posts: My Top 10 Posts of 2009 on News Media, SEO and Social Media Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About Reliability of Information Where Do You Want Your Social Media Press Releases to Live? Perhaps some of the respondents took the question to mean third-party online press room services.

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 8, 2012

Using the full HTML title tag (with a bunch of extra information) instead of just an optimized headline. How much Facebook integration is too much? and reasonable use of Facebook Social Plugins have essentially become standard practice. Not including @[brand] or listing a third party tool instead (e.g.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 20, 2009

It’s less important how many people click and much more important who is clicking and what they are doing with the information. Muck Rack and MicroPR are good examples of people using some creative thinking to get the right information to the right people using the online tools available.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 23, 2013

Not every category has the same number of titles and some sites have larger audiences than others, so to keep the information both anonymous and meaningful I’ve used a combination of total and average figures for the group as a whole and the individual categories. What Next for StumbleUpon? So what does the future hold for StumbleUpon?

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Since I’ve been comparing major news sites in variety of areas ( Facebook and Twitter impact; YouTube and new Digg activity; site speed and domain authority , among others) I thought I’d look at overall social media engagement too. These points are combined into a total engagement score (for more information see What is Engagement?

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Related posts: Google Social Search: Are You in Your Target Audiences’ Social Circles?

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 30, 2009

Which News Sites Have the Most Valuable Facebook Pages? { This is great information we can use for our own client sites. Syndication Best Practices: Reduce the Risk of Being Outranked for Your Own Content Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers? Tracking codes have always been a stickler for large sites.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

This information can also be used to find the areas where editorial coverage and user interests most overlap, ultimately resulting in more traffic, pageviews and time on site. Now that doesn’t mean that the tools should rule the roost, and applying these practices to the extreme of Demand Media or AOL’s SEED is a slippery slope.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Thanks for sharing. 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?

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I’ve been through the book and it’s a good read; for more information check out GoogleyLessons.com. Aaron is doing a blog tour in support of the book launch (covering 30 blogs in 10 days), which I thought was an interesting concept. – Adam The traditional news business, as we have known it, is dead. OK, maybe not dead.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 30, 2009

for more information. I agree that attribution links are vital, and I recommend not posting all the content Do you have any information on how to tell when an article is considered duplicate? This is in their best interest, as revealing that information would make it harder to prevent abuses.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 28, 2009

The placement of keyword-focused, descriptive bullet points near the top of the page gives the engines useful information for determining the topical relevancy of the page.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

While the most natural opportunities for publishers will be tied to current news and information, there are also some compelling things that could be done with historical content. Metro will provide Foursquare with location-specific editorial content such as reviews, tips and articles on points of interest.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 14, 2009

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

AUGUST 14, 2009

That relevancy combined with the fact that the article is likely to be shared and linked to frequently strengthens its ability to compete for search engine visibility.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2010

In my ongoing look at mainstream media outlets and social media I have done multiple posts on news sites and Twitter, Facebook and Digg but I’ve yet to look at YouTube. So I thought I’d investigate how well news sites are doing at building channel subscribers and video views.

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 16, 2010

Google, Bing and Yahoo are all experimenting with various forms of real-time results now and making deals with Twitter, Facebook and other social sites. In its “Latest results” Google blends results from Google News and Google Blog Search with updates from Twitter and Facebook Pages, offering multiple paths in for news and content sites.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 20, 2009

More importantly, in breaking news situations articles are often initially published with limited information and then later updated with further details. So if an article was accidently published with a typo in the headline and then corrected, Google News would still display the erroneous headline.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

The fourth new tag is the tag, which allows publishers to specify the title of each article. This is a good thing for publishers because it’s not uncommon for Google News to do some strange things in determining article titles itself.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 7, 2009

Letting readers “behind the curtain” by sharing insights into the story development process, soliciting input and providing previews or exclusive tidbits (such as additional information that didn’t make it into a particular article) is a great way to build relationships and gain a loyal following.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 15, 2009

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. It’s understandable that people were puzzled by this move, and when a major site makes a critical mistake it doesn’t take long for it to be put in the spotlight.

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