Adam Sherk

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Beyond Facebook Insights: Useful Facebook Analytics Tools

Adam Sherk

What are the best third-party tools for advanced Facebook analytics? With that in mind here are some Facebook analytics tools to experiment with: PageLever. PageLever may be the most frequently suggested third-party tool, having positioned itself as Facebook Insights on steroids. So that’s a good group to get you started.

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The Best Free (or Cheap) Tools for Blogger and Influencer Outreach

Adam Sherk

Social monitoring tools like Radian6 and PR suites like Vocus and Cision offer the greatest range of functionality for research and contact management. However utilizing enterprise-level tools is not always an option for smaller organizations, or even large ones with budget constraints. Each tool is free unless otherwise noted.

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

Adam Sherk

I spend a lot of time auditing websites which means I am regularly in the Google Webmaster Tools profiles for a variety of 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. What types of sites get the most links from Pinterest?

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The Fastest and Slowest News Sites in 2012

Adam Sherk

It has been a couple years now since page speed has been an official Google ranking factor and one year since the launch of PageSpeed Online , the Web-based version of Google’s tool for analyzing site performance. Among the rest of the group all but one site received a higher score this year. One-Year Gains and Losses.

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The Most Popular Summer Blockbuster Movies in Social Media

Adam Sherk

According to their data Fast Five and Thor are far and away the most popular summer movies with each getting 38%+ of social media activity among the selected group of films: (click to enlarge). Does the Alterian data match what is available through some of the free tools out there? Share of social media activity: Fast Five 38.46%.

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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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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 At a minimum you should monitor the Site Performance data in your Webmaster Tools account and make an effort to minimize your average load times.

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