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StumbleUpon Traffic to Magazine and Content Sites Down 27%

Adam Sherk

The examined sites can be roughly divided into five main categories: food, home, fashion & beauty, health, entertainment and news & tech. Is the dominance of Facebook and Twitter, coupled with increasing Google+ engagement , proving to be too much? What Next for StumbleUpon? So what does the future hold for StumbleUpon?

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Pinterest: Great Opportunity for Lifestyle Publishers and Brands

Adam Sherk

On Pinterest publishers can showcase their content, build brand awareness and connect with influencers, evangelists and good old fashioned regular users who like their stuff. With Facebook, Twitter and now Google +1 buttons becoming virtually required placements that doesn’t always leave room for niche sites like Pinterest. [As

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The Best Free (or Cheap) Tools for Blogger and Influencer Outreach

Adam Sherk

Followerwonk from SEOmoz is a great tool for researching Twitter users. The Twitter bio search allows you to easily find and evaluate users in specific areas. Just search on something like “fashion blogger,” “foodie” or whatever topic you need and you’re on your way. Finding Bloggers and Influencers.

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Yahoo! Search Data (@YahooSearchData) a Good Source of Trending Topics for Lifestyle Publishers

Adam Sherk

So what’s a lifestyle site covering things like food, fashion or home to do? One good source is @YahooSearchData on Twitter. Specific to lifestyle publishers the Google data was never all that useful anyway since it was dominated by topics like breaking news, sports and entertainment. I’d given Yahoo!

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The Most Popular News Sites on YouTube

Adam Sherk

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. It just goes to show how times (and fashion, literally!) So I thought I’d investigate how well news sites are doing at building channel subscribers and video views.

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StumbleUpon Channels: Which Media Brands Are Doing Well?

Adam Sherk

Be it beauty and fashion, food, health or home, there are a wide range of titles that have already established a presence. Some more observations: The ability to connect RSS, Twitter and Facebook feeds makes it easy to maintain a Channel without committing significant time or resources. Lifestyle Content. Additional Notes.

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Google Living Stories – Just Snazzy Topic Pages or is Google on to.

Adam Sherk

Shining a Spotlight on Video News Webmaster Tools: Updates to Search queries, Parameter handling and Messages Twitter data lets NPR glimpse a future of app-loving news junkies Shared Items Disclaimer The opinions expressed on this blog are Adam Sherks own and do not necessarily reflect the views of his company or its clients.

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