Adam Sherk

MARCH 16, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Real-time Search Optimization for News Sites by Adam Sherk on March 16, 2010 The major search engines are making real-time search a priority, resulting in good visibility opportunities for news sites especially for breaking news.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 13, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk 25 Major News Sites Ranked by Page Speed by Adam Sherk on April 13, 2010 Now that site speed is officially a Google ranking factor, site performance and page load time are important for SEO as well as usability. So which news sites fared best?

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk An Early Look at News Media Twitter Lists: Not Much Traction by Adam Sherk on November 3, 2009 With all the buzz about Twitter Lists I thought I’d take a look at how some major news sites are doing so far with their own Lists. Nice roundup.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 23, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Buried News Sites on Digg by Adam Sherk on July 23, 2009 It’s no secret that mainstream news sites are experiencing increased exposure on social news sites like Digg. Using di66.net’s 403 14 dailymail.co.uk 387 15 telegraph.co.uk

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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

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? This gives publishers the opportunity for greater exposure to users looking for content from their specific site (and who may not be familiar with the “site:” search operator).

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 7, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Diversified Twitter Strategies for News Sites by Adam Sherk on August 7, 2009 This week’s Sysomos study of the 5% most active users on Twitter includes a list of the top 25 users (with more than 50,000 followers) ranked by average tweets per day. tweets per day.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But at this early stage, how strong are the marketing opportunities for news sites? Sharing and discussing content is a key component of Google Buzz, so it’s a natural fit for article promotion and audience development. At a minimum news sites should set up an official profile and experiment with “buzz this” buttons on their templates.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 4, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers? Do they want to follow and interact with specific media sites? They also made 29 comments; that’s a very low number but most of the other sites have not made any.

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Harp Interactive

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Following is an abbreviated list of useful tools, resources and/or apps with links and short descriptions that you may want to incorporate into your daily social media practice. Known as the Twitter Yellow Pages, A search directory of people by area of expertise, profession or other attribute listed in personal profiles on Twitter.

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Kikolani

JUNE 25, 2013

It’s definitely a good site to use to research the top posts based on social sharing, and great topic ideas for blogs you want to pitch for a guest post. Feedly only measures shares through their reader, Facebook, and Google +1′s. Google Reader. Google Reader Alternatives.

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SocMed Sean

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Worker Smarter - Rather than spending your time surfing sites or reading tweets, have the content your really care about delivered to you using RSS feeds or through targeted Twitter lists.

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Jason Yormark

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

If you do a search for social media jobs, you’ll find a fair share of sites claiming to specialize in social media jobs, but 9 times out of 10, they’re just another iteration of a site pulling job ads from a job network such as JobThread. And listings are free through 2010! Add this to Google Bookmarks.

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Kikolani

JUNE 20, 2011

After some emails back and forth with a potential guest blogger on my site, he suggested I write a little guide on how to submit a guest post in a way that will increase the likelihood of getting it published. One of the easiest ways to do that is using Google Reader in the Chrome browser with the PostRank Chrome extension.

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Jason Yormark

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I’ve tried to avoid all the repetitive job sites that “claim” to be focused on social media/community, but are just glorified job boards with social media jobs listed at the top. You can of course always use tools like Craigslist, LinkedIn and old dogs like Monster, but sometimes the cream of the crop aren’t listed there.

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Kikolani

APRIL 5, 2013

Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+ , retweeted on @kikolani , and read in RSS subscriptions this week. Are Spammers on Your Mailing List Costing You Money – Don’t pay more than you should for your mailing list by removing the spam! How Much will Google Reader’s Demise Cost your Business?

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Kikolani

MAY 28, 2013

In this post, I’m going to share my research into popup opt-in forms: who’s using them, case studies, WordPress plugins, and the alternatives for building your mailing list. The list of website’s and blogs using popup opt-in forms today include some of the most respected, well-known in the industry.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 29, 2009

by Adam Sherk on October 29, 2009 This week Google unveiled Google Social Search , an opt-in feature that provides additional search results with content from a user’s “social circle” of friends and trusted sources. The same goes for the sites and blogs you follow via Google Reader.

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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? I noticed that in addition to the email list users can sign up for text and voice updates via mobile phone.

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Socialized

MAY 14, 2010

If you want regular updates, set up Google Reader or create a Google Alert on the words “Facebook&# and “privacy.&#. I have also created a Twitter list of Internet law and privacy experts. I have also created a Twitter list of Internet law and privacy experts. Know Your Rights as a Consumer.

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Janet Fouts

APRIL 6, 2011

People in your Google chat or Gmail lists, stored in Google Contacts or who you are following in Google Reader or Buzz. Learn more about managing your social connections and view your existing connections in Google’s help section. So what’s the downside here?

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Adam Sherk

MAY 14, 2013

I’ve put together a list of some of the main opportunities in broad categories. A good way to investigate this is to review the Crawl Errors report in Google Webmaster Tools, which shows URLs with 404, 500 and other errors that Google encountered while crawling the site. Partner links.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Become a Knowledge Management Ninja with Google Reader. I have been using various RSS readers for nearly five years now - Ive tried them all. However, none matches the power of Google Reader. Some of these may work with RSS readers from Newsgator, Bloglines and others but they are written with Google in mind.).

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Stay N' Alive

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The debate lies with the fact that more and more people are starting to use Twitter, Twitter lists, Facebook, and other social means to just get the news from the streams they follow on these sites rather than typical RSS Readers like Google Reader. Into thin air it’s gone in the new UI. Hope that helps!&#.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 21, 2013

Some of the biggest news in the blogging world over the last week was without a doubt Google’s announcement that on June 1st, they’re closing Google Reader. Paraphrasing their own words, the usage of Reader is smaller than ever, and Google want to focus on fewer products. ProBlogger: 94,647.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 20, 2010

25 Major News Sites Ranked by Page Speed. An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News Sites. Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? Another post not listed that did pretty well was News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers?

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Kikolani

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Twitter Lists. Twitter now allows you to add Twitter members to Twitter Lists , which helps you easily organize people you are interested in following by topic. Facebook Friends List. One way to make sure you are getting what you want from your feed reader is organizing your feeds into particular folders. Gmail Labels.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 1, 2009

A tactic that some news and content sites employ is monitoring Google’s Hot Trends list in an effort to identify hot topics and then quickly produce matching content around them. The major engines all produce some form of hot topic/trend list, and several third-party and social media sites do as well.

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Guest blogging isn’t just about getting exposure – there are plenty of sites that will pay you to contribute an article to their site. While the pay range varies, I typically only keep track of sites that offer a minimum of $50 per post and have found opportunities that go up to $200 a post, $1.25

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Justin Levy

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

If you’ve stopped by the blog recently instead of only catching up via a feed reader such as Google Reader then you noticed about a month ago I switched over to the Genesis theme framework (affiliate link) and chose to use the Prose child theme. This code is only good through next Tuesday. Act Now to Save.

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Kikolani

MAY 4, 2011

When I turned off Twitterfeed, about a week or two ago I think, I started relying on my RSS subscriptions in Google Reader to deliver the latest posts from my favorite blogs. I think so far this week I’ve been much more interactive with my lists. Even My Favorite Blogs Have a Few Posts I’d Rather Not Share.

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Saying It Social

MAY 1, 2010

After you’ve published your blog, you should post it on your Facebook Business Page , tweet it on Twitter , share it on LinkedIn , bookmark it on social bookmarking sites, and post it on document sharing sites. Another great (free) Google product that you can use to have content delivered to you is Google Reader.

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Kikolani

JULY 5, 2013

Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+ , retweeted on @kikolani , and read in RSS subscriptions this week. 12 Google Reader Alternatives to Consider – You still have until July 15th to download your Google Reader subscriptions and move them to an alternative RSS reader.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

by Adam Sherk on June 9, 2009 Among news sites “breaking news” is a sought-after keyword phrase; I see it prominently placed in home page title tags all the time: And it’s not just general news sites. Breaking news” is featured in the title tags of sites covering sports, entertainment and a wide range of topics.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

by Adam Sherk on June 9, 2009 Among news sites “breaking news” is a sought-after keyword phrase; I see it prominently placed in home page title tags all the time: And it’s not just general news sites. Breaking news” is featured in the title tags of sites covering sports, entertainment and a wide range of topics.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Since we’re in the heart of football season, I thought I’d take a look at which NFL teams have the largest following on both sites. Twitter should consider extending its “verified accounts&# to team sites as well. These figures obviously change quickly but this current snapshot is useful for comparison.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

And throughout December we’ve gotten top 2009 searches lists from Google , Yahoo , Bing and Ask. But while you’re going through this year’s top trends, don’t forget to apply the same practice to your own sites. Which social media sites brought in the most traffic and links, and how well represented are you in each?

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