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. Which News Sites Have the Most Valuable Facebook Pages? { xid=rss (or ?xid=topstories xid=topstories or ?cid=partner

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Even when the engines do a reasonable job of filtering out duplicates in their results, sites are essentially shooting themselves in the foot by splitting internal and inbound links to a particular piece of content across multiple URLs. Appending tracking codes to URLs (e.g. ?xid=rss xid=rss or ?cid=top-stories)

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

When users click a retweet button, they expect to see something along the lines of: RT @[brand] [headline] [URL] That exact format does not need to be followed, but you want to minimize the work that users need to do before sending out the tweet. Related posts: Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines?

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 20, 2009

URL, so I tried using bit.ly search to get click data on each of those shortened URLs. URLs in Muck Rack releases. reports from its search page are not very complete or accurate (you get better data on URLs you’ve personally shortened in your history when signed into bit.ly). Of those 51 releases, 28 included a bit.ly

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Adam Sherk

JULY 9, 2009

The Yahoo attribution links do not point directly to the original article URLs. Instead they point to an internal Yahoo News URL which then has a temporary 302 redirect to the original article. Which News Sites Have the Most Valuable Facebook Pages? Will Publishers Add Cross-Domain Rel=Canonical to Syndication Deals?

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 6, 2010

I didn’t find any shared newsweek.tumblr.com URLs through Bit.ly I didn’t find any shared newsweek.tumblr.com URLs through Bit.ly Some visitors are likely clicking through to the full articles on Newsweek.com and then commenting there and/or sharing the newsweek.com URLs, which is also a good thing. Fox News Not so Much.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Three digit URLs are not required if you submit an XML news sitemap. Don’t break up the article body – Articles should have sequential paragraphs; don’t break them up with user comments or links to related posts.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Plug a competitor’s domain (or your own) into SEMrush and you’ll get a data dump of thousands of keywords that it has top 20 Google visibility for, as well as the specific URLs that are ranking. Enter any domain or topic and get a list of the most shared content across Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Google+.

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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

MARCH 8, 2012

Tweet text formatting has improved since I wrote Make the Most of Your Retweet Buttons but I still regularly come across issues with: Missing URLs. How much Facebook integration is too much? and reasonable use of Facebook Social Plugins have essentially become standard practice. What is the right mix of diversification?

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Adam Sherk

MAY 12, 2010

Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the Canonical URL Tag So Far so Good for Seattlepi.com 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

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Related posts: New York Times Plans to Implement Permanent Redirects on IHT.com URLs Top 10 Reasons The New York Times is Really Putting up a Paywall The Daily Show Visits The New York Times Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines? Check out The New York Times page on Foursquare to see it in action.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 12, 2009

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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.

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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 open source nature of AMP is a plus but I’m not a fan of having to create separate URLs. Are you taking full advantage of these opportunities?

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 30, 2009

The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the Canonical URL Tag The Wrap, Newser and Content Aggregation: How Much Attribution is Enough? { 4 comments… read them below or add one } Rahul July 16, 2009 at 6:53 am Hi Adam, Great post !

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 7, 2010

What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

News Sites: Tame Your Blog Tags Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the Canonical URL Tag Google JavaScript Changes Put Publishers in Violation of Sponsored Link Guidelines Will Publishers Add Cross-Domain Rel=Canonical to Syndication Deals? { Related posts: Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines?

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Adam Sherk

MAY 26, 2009

For example on The New York Times Company’s corporate site, press releases are hosted by Thomson Reuters on [link] URLs: Last year Todd Defren wrote that social media releases are best kept in your company newsroom for a variety of reasons. Specific to the SEO implications, I believe that is still the best approach.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 8, 2010

It is another to mass-aggregate content from a specific publication and then package it on a hub page, even customizing the URL and title tag for SEO: For what it is worth, Google does not seem to be assigning much value to the page.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 17, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Which News Sites Have the Most Valuable Facebook Pages? by Adam Sherk on May 17, 2010 Maintaining a Facebook Page is now a fundamental part of most news organizations’ social media presence. The CPM can be adjusted between $1 and $25.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 20, 2010

UPDATE: For those interested in more actual information, NYTco.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 16, 2009

by Adam Sherk on December 16, 2009 Yesterday Google announced that it is now supporting the rel=&# canonical&# link element (sometimes referred to as the canonical URL tag) across different domains. If you’re not familiar with rel=&# canonical&# see Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the Canonical URL Tag ).

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Essentially the idea is that for ongoing stories news organizations would maintain a single, consistent “living” URL that is continually updated with the latest developments. by Adam Sherk on December 8, 2009 Today Google unveiled its Living Stories prototype , showcasing its vision of a new format for presenting news stories online.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Related posts: Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage of Site Traffic Great Example of a Multimedia News Article from ESPN.com NewsPulse Gives CNN.com a New Way to Showcase Popular Content A Look at Muck Rack’s Twitter Press Release Service, 51 Releases Later Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with (..)

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