Adam Sherk

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How Much Search and Social Media Traffic Do Publishers Get?

Adam Sherk

Here are the averages for the year, according to each site’s Referrer Types report in Omniture: Search 37.8%. Organic search had a strong showing at 37.8%, so reports of its decline as a major traffic channel are simply not correct, especially for media sites. Social Media 10.2%. Other Web Sites 22.3%. Typed/Bookmarked 29.7%.

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StumbleUpon Traffic to Magazine and Content Sites Down 27%

Adam Sherk

To get a better sense of the situation I pulled StumbleUpon referral figures from 2010-2012 for a group of 47 news and content sites that we work with at Define Media Group , primarily magazine brands. Participation, budgets and timing varies greatly for the sites in this group and I am not able to segment that in the reported data.

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Mobile Visits Account for 40% of All Traffic for Publishers

Adam Sherk

On average, for the past six months (May-October 2014) mobile visits accounted for 40% of total site traffic for this group. Hitwise Reports News and Media’s Share of Search-Referred Traffic Declining. But if you have a SimilarWeb PRO subscription you can pull this data for any site. Here’s a breakdown by percentile.

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Survey: Pinterest a Great Source of Links for Publishers. What Types of Sites Get the Most Links?

Adam Sherk

Lately I’ve been noticing some impressive Pinterest link counts in the linking domains report under “Links to Your Sites.” The surveyed group includes the magazine sites in my Pinterest traffic survey plus quite a few more that we work with at Define Media Group.

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FoxNews.com Has Highest Customer Satisfaction Rating Among News Sites – By Far

Adam Sherk

These are the findings of the annual ForeSee American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) E-Business Report that was released today. increase over last year is also the highest rate of improvement in the group. However the report commentary also suggests the site “seems to suffer from more diffuse targeting.

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Will Media Outlets Keep Using Google+ Personal Accounts? Will Google Let Them?

Adam Sherk

Earlier this week Search Engine Land reported that Christian Oestlien, the Ads Lead for Google+, had posted a message asking businesses to hold off on using personal accounts to create business pages and that non-user profiles would be shut down.

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Beyond Facebook Insights: Useful Facebook Analytics Tools

Adam Sherk

It is also easy for agencies to white label the reports. So that’s a good group to get you started. Simply Measured’s Facebook Fan Page Analytics gets a gold star for clear, simple data visualization. They roll up the analysis into a series of graphs and charts that can be viewed online or exported to Excel or PowerPoint.

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