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Take Advantage of Additional Google News Opportunities for Publishers

Adam Sherk

3) Editors’ Picks – Creating an Editors’ Picks RSS feed allows you to provide five links to priority content that will potentially be featured in a special module within Google News: There are some specific guidelines to follow for the RSS feed. Plus it has a number of other features that are specific to Google News.

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Link Building Tactics for Publishers

Adam Sherk

E-mail newsletters and RSS feeds. RSS feeds are another good opportunity, both for content discovery and because users sometimes utilize them to power link modules on a blog or other site, in which case they become a direct source of links. However the collective payoff can be substantial so it’s worth devoting some resources to it.

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

Adam Sherk

The tool indexes millions of RSS feeds and a Feed Authority score is applied to each. Fresh Web Explorer is a new tool from SEOmoz that lets you find recent mentions and links, searchable by URL, domain, brand, keyword, etc. SEOmoz PRO membership is required to use it. Google Blog Search.

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A Look at Muck Rack's Twitter Press Release Service, 51 Releases Later

Adam Sherk

Releases are posted on their press release page (and in its RSS feed) and tweeted via @muckrack , which currently has 5k+ followers. Based on their press release page and RSS feed, since the service launched in late July they’ve distributed 51 press releases, a small number being their own.

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News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers?

Adam Sherk

Some additional notes: 1) It is not clear yet how well using an RSS feed to automatically submit articles is working. We don’t have an RSS import functionality, but we are looking into it. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme. I think you’ve done a great analysis, Adam.

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StumbleUpon Channels: Which Media Brands Are Doing Well?

Adam Sherk

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. Within TV both networks like History Channel and individual programs like SportsCenter or How I Met Your Mother have attracted a decent following. Additional Notes.

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Google Social Search: Are You in Your Target Audiences' Social.

Adam Sherk

For news and content sites the task is fairly straightforward as lots of users are already subscribed to their RSS feeds, Twitter accounts, Facebook Pages, etc. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme. If not how do we get there?

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