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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Twitter Let’s start with Twitter. The Giants and Cardinals do have official representatives on Twitter ( giantspathanlon and cardschatter ) but no official team profiles. League-wide the Facebook numbers are much higher than Twitter which makes sense considering Facebook’s larger user base and adoption rate.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 12, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular NBA Teams on Twitter and Facebook by Adam Sherk on January 12, 2010 NBA players, like many professional athletes, have taken social media by storm, but what about their teams? So what should NBA teams be doing on Twitter and Facebook?

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Adam Sherk

JULY 17, 2009

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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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk An Early Look at News Media Twitter Lists: Not Much Traction by Adam Sherk on November 3, 2009 With all the buzz about Twitter Lists I thought I’d take a look at how some major news sites are doing so far with their own Lists. To reporters’ sources?

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk A Look at Muck Rack’s Twitter Press Release Service, 51 Releases Later by Adam Sherk on October 20, 2009 I’m definitely a fan of Muck Rack – it offers an easy way to track major media journalists on Twitter and pick up on trending topics.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Pew Research News Survey: Findings on Search Engines, Social Networks and Twitter by Adam Sherk on September 13, 2010 The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press has published the results of its latest survey on news consumption and related topics.

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

It’s an outstanding list, categorized by industry including Automotive, Chemicals, Electronics, Telecommunications, and a dozen other sectors, but all of the names were linked to the individuals’ LinkedIn profiles—no Twitter links! Serious disconnect there.). Anyway, on to the list! List of Corporate Social Strategists for 2011.

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Syndication. Syndicating content is a common practice and an important revenue stream for publishers. My post on syndication best practices covers ways to reduce the risk of being outranked for your own content. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 24, 2010

Most newspapers and magazines get a significant amount of natural search traffic from branded queries but queries that combine a specific topic plus a brand are much less common. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? As awareness of the Google change grows this may impact user behavior; time will tell.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 2, 2009

What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? Search Marketing Dwarfs Social Media in Interactive Marketing Budgets Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

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Convince & Convert

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Inspired by the power of storytelling has to cultivate engagement, the company has re-launched their corporate website, “ Coca-Cola Journey ,” as a highly visual, sharable digital magazine. The end result is a highly engaging destination with content on par with lifestyle and news websites.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 19, 2010

What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? 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

JANUARY 4, 2010

The Most Popular NFL Teams on Twitter and Facebook Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 30, 2009

On newspaper and magazine sites, the main culprit is typically the practice of appending tracking codes to the end of URLs, for example: www.yoursite.com/article ?xid=rss It’s still early days for the tag, but based on results from some magazine sites we work with that have been experimenting with it, I’d say so far, so good.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2009

What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? Embedding photos will be a good way for publishers to draw attention on the SERPs and increase clickthrough rates. Not sure what SearchMonkey is? There’s some background information on the Yahoo Developer Network: SearchMonkey.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2010

In my ongoing look at mainstream media outlets and social media I have done multiple posts on news sites and Twitter, Facebook and Digg but I’ve yet to look at YouTube. I know a number of consumer magazines are publishing in multiple languages, usually in partnership with a local company that manages the presence.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2010

News Sites on Twitter: Who is Making the Most Impact? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? 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

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? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? 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

MAY 12, 2010

What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the Canonical URL Tag So Far so Good for Seattlepi.com Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 20, 2009

Google News Optimization Tips Google JavaScript Changes Put Publishers in Violation of Sponsored Link Guidelines Yahoo News Syndication: Attribution Links Not SEO-Friendly Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Here are a few issues to consider when localizing an online newspaper or magazine. For example, if you are publishing a magazine about human resources management it might seem odd to readers in Japan if all the images depict European workers. Translation. Depending on your budget there are a couple of ways you can go about this.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Last week Twitter gave us their Top Twitter Trends of 2009 for categories like news events, people, movies, etc. Which Twitter profiles built up the most followers and engagement? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? What types of content generated the most social media sharing and inbound links?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Do you start a Twitter account? In my opinion, Dan is also the hardest working guy in Social Media posting 10 times a week on his blog, publishing his own magazine and book as well as having a full time job as the social media expert for EMC! But what does that mean? Do you launch a blog? Do you launch your own Vlog? Finance.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 23, 2009

First, a study of 33 million unique users from Chitika’s network in September showed that visitors coming from Facebook and Digg were more loyal than those coming from the three major search engines and Twitter. Even just a year ago the majority of news sites were barely dabbling with things like Twitter – now most have Twitter mania.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Since I’ve been comparing major news sites in variety of areas ( Facebook and Twitter impact; YouTube and new Digg activity; site speed and domain authority , among others) I thought I’d look at overall social media engagement too. Also surprised how well some magazines did. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 21, 2010

A similar difference exists for microblogging sites like Twitter. 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? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 6, 2010

To investigate further I did a quick check for Twitter activity. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? I don’t have any data on what kind of traffic the Tumblr site is getting, but either it is fairly low or visitors simply aren’t starting discussions there. I didn’t find any shared newsweek.tumblr.com URLs through Bit.ly

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 7, 2010

What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? 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 11, 2010

The Most Buried News Sites on Digg Diversified Twitter Strategies for News Sites Twitter Suggested Users – Today’s Studio 54 Velvet Rope How to Identify Your Own Top Trends Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

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Adam Sherk

MAY 19, 2009

What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? 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

MAY 19, 2009

What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? 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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Hitwise News Report Press Release 100

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 17, 2009

What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? 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

JUNE 5, 2009

Will Publishers Add Cross-Domain Rel=Canonical to Syndication Deals? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? Google Living Stories – Just Snazzy Topic Pages or is Google onto Something? Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

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