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? But CNN did get two embedded video listings on the page, beating out YouTube: Finally, for the query “mosque near ground zero ABC” NPR and AP got the Google News listings, not ABC.

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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. You can follow Google’s guidelines for marking up structured data to learn how to do it, including the specific properties for reviews. But now is a good time to begin experimenting with it.

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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? Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! – If You de-Index Will They Still Come?

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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

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? Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines?

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 11, 2010

In my post on news sites on the new Digg I noted that NBC has created a series of city-specific profiles to target local markets. Lauren: The ten profiles are a joint effort between myself and the social media lead in each of the 10 markets. Has there been interest/demand for market-specific content?

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 14, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Corporate Social Media Marketing is about Two-Way Communication by Adam Sherk on April 14, 2009 It’s a simple concept, but one that many companies are still struggling with in terms of practical implementation.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Why the News Business Isn’t Profitable by Guest on September 10, 2010 This is a guest post from Aaron Goldman , author of Everything I Know about Marketing I Learned from Google. You just Google it, right? came over from Google.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 11, 2010

So companies can increase the likelihood of their press releases being used by bloggers and local news sources by giving them a more news-like tone and dialing down the marketing hype. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

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Adam Sherk

JULY 12, 2011

While watching the film The Social Network over the weekend one scene in particular caught my attention. And few would argue against the importance of PR and marketing in launching and growing any new business regardless of how formalized those efforts are. Related posts: Does Google Want Brands in Your Social Circle?

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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?

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 21, 2010

Related posts: Pew Research News Survey: Findings on Search Engines, Social Networks and Twitter PEJ Study Shows Print Still Primary Source of Original News Reporting Does Social Media Increase a Journalist’s Value? There is a lot more data in the Cision study , so I recommend downloading it to get the whole story.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 1, 2009

I personally found that Google Trends tends to be a little more sensationalistic than the others. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! Here are some free resources for identifying hot topics and search trends.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Related posts: My Top 10 Posts of 2009 on News Media, SEO and Social Media Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About Reliability of Information Where Do You Want Your Social Media Press Releases to Live? Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

i think aol is sending a pretty clear message that their new ceo is saying that google still wants tons and tons of content for the foreseeable future. too bad google doesn’t allow the sale of text link ads or aol could really clean up in a few years.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Make the Most of Your Retweet Buttons by Adam Sherk on February 25, 2010 In working on my presentation for the Twitter Marketing Tactics session at SMX West next week I’ve been looking at the various types of share and retweet buttons used on news sites.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 28, 2009

Related posts: Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines? Pew Research News Survey: Findings on Search Engines, Social Networks and Twitter Great Example of a Multimedia News Article from ESPN.com Google News Now Recrawling Updated Articles Do People Search for “Breaking News”?

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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. Data like this is interesting to check out, and it can provide useful insights for marketers and content producers in getting a better understanding of user interest and activities in both search and social media. Happy New Year.

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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.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 12, 2010

Shifting from poaching content to paying for it, it really is no wonder that the AP seems so threatened by Google. Related posts: Video Interview: Rupert Murdoch Doesn’t Like Search So Much I Hope News Corp Does Block its Content from Google The Wrap, Newser and Content Aggregation: How Much Attribution is Enough?

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 5, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular MLB Teams on Twitter and Facebook by Adam Sherk on April 5, 2010 A new baseball season is underway and we are in that wonderfully brief period when fans all over the country still believe this could actually be the year for their team.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 19, 2010

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! Adam is part of the Define Search Strategies consulting team, which is owned by The New York Times Company.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 7, 2010

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! Adam is part of the Define Search Strategies consulting team, which is owned by The New York Times Company.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 6, 2010

In terms of search engine visibility, as of today the Tumblr site is #9 in my Google results for “Newsweek” so it’s working its way up. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 27, 2009

The Most Popular News Sites on YouTube Google Living Stories – Just Snazzy Topic Pages or is Google onto Something? Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2009

There’s some background information on the Yahoo Developer Network: SearchMonkey. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

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Adam Sherk

JULY 13, 2010

Related posts: Pro PR Tips: 100 PR Tips from Rafe Needleman Published as a Book Does Social Media Increase a Journalist’s Value? Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers? Where Do You Want Your Social Media Press Releases to Live? Don’t let obstacles get in the way of the big picture!

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2010

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! Adam is part of the Define Search Strategies consulting team, which is owned by The New York Times Company.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! Adam is part of the Define Search Strategies consulting team, which is owned by The New York Times Company.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 14, 2009

So far Google seems to agree. As of today the article is #1 (after some embedded news results) for the query “michael vick eagles”: Related posts: Do Google’s Expanded Domain Results Apply to News and Video Listings? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

And if I want to get an overview of the current news of the day I’ll go to Google News or Yahoo! However, according to the Google Adwords Keyword Tool , some people do: Currently CNN.com and MSNBC.com are the top two listings in Google for “breaking news.” News , or direct navigate to a major news site.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

And if I want to get an overview of the current news of the day I’ll go to Google News or Yahoo! However, according to the Google Adwords Keyword Tool , some people do: Currently CNN.com and MSNBC.com are the top two listings in Google for “breaking news.” News , or direct navigate to a major news site.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

In a recent Google Webmaster Central video Google’s Matt Cutts talked about blog tags and SEO: “There are certainly some blogs, including some really popular blogs, who have an entire paragraph full of tags. Related posts: Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines? Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers?

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage of Site Traffic by Adam Sherk on October 23, 2009 Yesterday posts from eMarketer and Marketing Pilgrim called my attention to some interesting social media statistics put out by advertising network Chitika.

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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. Thanks for the write up.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 4, 2010

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! So belatedly here are my 10 most popular posts of 2009, by pageviews: Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get the Most Engagement?

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