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Link Building Tactics for Publishers

Adam Sherk

These activities typically involve collaboration with multiple groups including tech, edit and audience development as well as the SEO, PR and social media teams. E-mail newsletters and RSS feeds. So maintain a decent selection of feeds and don’t let the impending shutdown of Google Reader move you away from RSS.

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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. So that’s a good group of tools to get you started. Fresh Web Explorer. Fresh Web Explorer is a new tool from SEOmoz that lets you find recent mentions and links, searchable by URL, domain, brand, keyword, etc. Google Blog Search.

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Twitter Suggested Follows – Today's Studio 54 Velvet Rope

Adam Sherk

It’s not the same 20 every time – Twitter randomly shuffles in 20 profiles from the group it has deemed worthy of recommendation. Since new users aren’t always sure exactly how to use Twitter, this starter group can be quite helpful, so the profiles that are featured do end up getting a steady stream of new followers.

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Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get the Most Engagement?

Adam Sherk

They are indeed #2 in terms of total fans (among the group of news sites that I looked at). Mike, I should have included MSNBC in the original group. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme. UPDATE: After seeing Matt Gallivan’s comment I added NPR to the table today.

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25 Major News Sites Ranked By Page Speed

Adam Sherk

I started with the group I used in my news sites domain authority post and added a few more. News moved it to the top of the group for articles and knocked Guardian.co.uk Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme. The sites include a mix of major newspapers, news magazines and TV news sites.

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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. While it is not surprising that tech sites are doing well it is encouraging that some of the top mainstream news sites above fall within in the middle of this group.

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Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

Adam Sherk

PostRank counts “engagement events” which it defines as individual activities such as a tweet, like, comment, digg, RSS view, etc. So there may definitely be some other new media sites with engagement scores that are competitive with this group, or even higher. So I ran 30+ news sites through the tool.

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