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Mobile Visits Account for 40% of All Traffic for Publishers

Adam Sherk

Mobile is an important and growing traffic source for all publishers, but just how much traffic does it represent? I was curious where things currently stand so I pulled mobile traffic figures from SimilarWeb for a variety of well-known brands. The highest figure was 70% and the lowest was 25%: Average Mobile Traffic Number of Sites.

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10 Things That Expose Good Sites to Google Panda

Adam Sherk

Mobile – with mobile averaging 40% of total traffic and continuing to grow, some editorial teams are modifying their writing style to be shorter and more succinct to make the content more digestible on mobile devices.

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Interesting Magazine and Digital Stats from Pew State of the News Media 2013

Adam Sherk

Mobile Creates Additional News Consumption. One encouraging aspect of the study is that as mobile news consumption grows it is not at the expense of other channels. Speaking of demographics, I didn’t realize AARP magazines had the largest circulation: Their figures are up a little in 2012 too, while several others have dropped.

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8 Critical SEO and Digital Marketing Opportunities

Adam Sherk

Hosted and Mobile-Specific Article Formats. As a user I like the new hosted and mobile-specific article formats, be that Facebook Instant Articles , Apple News Format or Google’s AMP project. Fast and clean is a good combination, especially on mobile. Are you taking full advantage of these opportunities?

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Startups Use Micro-PR Campaigns to Tip Momentum in Their Favor

Adam Sherk

A close friend of mine came up with a concept with a mobile tie-in that would be unique, fun and game-changing but after the initial development he became frozen over what to do next. I know this first hand. This triggered me to change my strategy around traditional PR work and focus on ‘micro-PR’ campaigns.

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How Much Google News Traffic Do Publishers Get? Here’s Data on 80 News Sites.

Adam Sherk

Related posts: Mobile Visits Account for 40% of All Traffic for Publishers. I’d think a thank you is more appropriate than a lawsuit or legislation. The bottom line: Google News still matters, and news search optimization efforts are worth your time. How Much Search and Social Media Traffic Do Publishers Get?

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Help Haiti: News Sites Promote Ways to Donate

Adam Sherk

Word of mouth on Twitter, Facebook and other sites (including The White House blog ) has raised over $2 million to-date through mobile phone donations organized by mGive. UPDATES: Mobile phone donations have gone very well.

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