Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? by Adam Sherk on October 6, 2010 It is safe to say that most news sites are now experimenting with various forms of user engagement and content promotion through social media.

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Dave Fleet

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

If you’re not familiar with the phenomenon, the top social networks – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram – all allow users to ‘follow’ other people whose content then provides the basis for what they see when they log in to those services. Corporate Social Media ≠ Personal Social Media. Echo Chambers Prevail.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites: Tame Your Blog Tags by Adam Sherk on February 19, 2010 Ever notice all the tags that some blogs add to their posts? Adding a few meaningful tags is fine, but news sites in particular have a habit of taking this practice much too far.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites Not Making Much Use of Static FBML on Facebook Pages by Adam Sherk on June 9, 2010 Between privacy issues, a sweaty CEO and technical problems with its “Like&# buttons Facebook is having a rough time lately. The short answer? Not so many.

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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. This is data driven and not an “arbitrary decision.”

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 15, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites on Twitter: Who is Making the Most Impact? There is of course much more to the social media universe than just The Bobbsey Twins. But which news sites are making the most of their Twitter presence? 2,461,060 2 @cnnbrk 77.3% 38,607 24 @FT 25.6%

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google Social Search: Are You in Your Target Audiences’ Social Circles? So if you link to your Twitter account on your Google profile the people you’re following on Twitter become part of your social circle. If not how do we get there?

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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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Saying It Social

MARCH 25, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Google To Introduce Opt Out Browser Plug In For Analytics Up until just a few minutes ago when I started reading some reports about what I’m about to tell you, I’ve been a huge Google “junkie&#.

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Josh S Peters

MARCH 19, 2013

Last week we saw some great announcements from Pinterest (of which I’ve already taken advantage ) as well as some great new things from Google+ and some great content marketing resources. Google Reader Alternatives: 3 Web Based RSS Readers to Manage Your Subscriptions via Kikolani. That’s right.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 24, 2010

by Adam Sherk on August 24, 2010 As first covered by Malcolm Coles and later confirmed by Google , for search queries that include a specific domain Google is now showing a larger number of results from that site on page one. But do the expanded results apply to the embedded news and video listings in the SERPs?

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites by Adam Sherk on October 8, 2009 Although search engines keep improving on their ability to deal with duplicate content, this continues to be one of the main SEO issues facing news and content sites.

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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

AUGUST 20, 2009

Google employee “Inbal” later provided a more specific time window, indicating “the rate at which we recrawl may vary, but we try to go back and check for changes in article content within the first 12 hours after we first find it.” I went looking for an updated story in Google News today and was able to find an example.

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Kikolani

MAY 17, 2013

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+ , retweeted on @kikolani , and read in RSS subscriptions this week. Social Media / Social Networking.

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Stay N' Alive

JUNE 28, 2011

It's that which has had Google scared and hinging employee bonuses on the success of their social program this year. However, it seems in one fell swoop Google just beat Facebook to their own game. Google+ is that good, and it immediately puts them ahead of Facebook. Google has a few things Facebook does not yet have.

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Harp Interactive

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

cross-post your updates to Jaiku and many other sites like Facebook , MySpace , LinkedIn and more via Ping.fm. is a simple and FREE service that makes updating your social networks a snap! Options to post content to 50+ social media sites and more! Google Buzz. Google Reader. Friend Feed.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 22, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines? So it appears this tip is intended to make it easier for Google News to understand the correct title for articles, as opposed to being a “must do&# to prevent an issue.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Believe it or not, being indexed in Google and Google News is actually good for news sites. Google-less? I’d actually like to see this happen…it would make for an interesting case study demonstrating that the only one hurt by such a deal is News Corp itself. – If You de-Index Will They Still Come?

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers? by Adam Sherk on December 1, 2009 In November Google announced a new format for Google News Sitemaps with several changes including new tags that provide additional detail on each submitted article.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 13, 2009

Initially Google is supporting data on reviews and people. Initially Google is supporting data on reviews and people. Reviews in particular offer a good opportunity for publishers as many content sites produce multiple types of reviews on a regular basis. But now is a good time to begin experimenting with it.

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Dave Fleet

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

If you’re not familiar with the phenomenon, the top social networks – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram – all allow users to ‘follow’ other people whose content then provides the basis for what they see when they log in to those services. Corporate Social Media ? Personal Social Media. Echo Chambers Prevail.

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Saying It Social

MAY 1, 2010

Fortunately, with a little strategic planning and implementation of some very helpful tools, you can accomplish your social networking/social media marketing tasks for the day in a very short amount of time. Blogs lend so many benefits to a social media marketing program that they really can’t be overlooked.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 5, 2009

While it’s good news that Google is continuing to improve its ability to deal with JavaScript, this change also impacts the way that many publishers display sponsored links on their sites. Is Google going to run out and start penalizing sites with sponsored links in JavaScript? But Does it Violate Facebook Guidelines?

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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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The Way of the Web

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Given the high standards Google set for itself with the aims of indexing the world’s information, and the mantra of ‘Don’t Be Evil’, it’s likely we hold it to higher standards than most companies. The use of https by sites is a positive step and one that shouldn’t be discouraged.

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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.&#. If you’re in the EU, or do business there, visit the web site and download the “ Data Protection Guide &# that outlines citizen’s rights. Know Your Rights as a Consumer.

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Kikolani

APRIL 5, 2013

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+ , retweeted on @kikolani , and read in RSS subscriptions this week. Social Media / Social Networking.

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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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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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

and obviously more recently sites such as Digg. If you use Twitter regularly, you’d see that it wins as a social news site that provides instantaneous news — at least of that caliber. The story announcing Heath Ledger’s death was made popular with 13 minutes of submission to the social news site.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

What else can news sites do with Foursquare and other forms of location-based social media? While different from my archive idea, this is a great example of location-based opportunities for news sites. The recent partnership between Foursquare and Canada’s Metro is a good early example of the potential that exists.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 11, 2010

Related posts: Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About Reliability of Information Pew Research News Survey: Findings on Search Engines, Social Networks and Twitter Where Do You Want Your Social Media Press Releases to Live?

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Kikolani

AUGUST 17, 2012

This Week in Social Media by Social Media Examiner – A weekly recap of the latest news and features directly from your favorite social networks and application providers. I especially like Google Reader because you can use the app on your mobile and star items while on the go to (assuming you have 3G/4G access).

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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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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 6, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Newsweek on Tumblr: Good Effort, Needs More Engagement by Adam Sherk on January 6, 2010 Awareness of Newsweek’s Tumblr site has been increasing of late. That’s critical for giving the site stand-alone value as opposed to just being a feeder site to Newsweek.com.

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