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A digital media framework for smart marketing communications

Sherrilynne Starkie

A client recently asked me to explain it to senior management and what follows is summary of my presentation. You may have heard rumours that Twitter is dead and nobody uses it anymore. But, Twitter is alive and well in Canada. Forty-two per cent of us are on Twitter and half of those users are on it daily.

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Yahoo News Syndication: Attribution Links Not SEO-Friendly

Adam Sherk

In looking at syndicated content on Yahoo News, most of the syndicated articles do not include attribution links (each news source likely has to request or provide them), but among those that do exist there is a problem. Will Publishers Add Cross-Domain Rel=Canonical to Syndication Deals?

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Syndication Best Practices: Reduce the Risk of Being Outranked for.

Adam Sherk

However from an SEO perspective there is a downside, as syndication creates duplicate content issues. Search engines don’t want to show users multiple versions of the same content, so when an article has been syndicated it’s likely that one version will be given prominence – and that may or may not be the original.

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We Interrupt This Lifecast: Syndication Overload (Part 1)

Firebelly

Social technologies make syndication and aggregation simple. You can easily kill multiple birds with one stone - automate your blog posts out on Twitter, which in turn sends your tweets to Facebook - but its important to not overdo it and run the risk of becoming a robot. Keep your #s, @s and RTs where they belong - on Twitter.

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A digital media framework for smart marketing communications

Sherrilynne Starkie

A client recently asked me to explain it to senior management and what follows is summary of my presentation. Twitter is alive and well in Canada. Forty-two per cent of us are on Twitter and half of those users are on it daily. It includes partnerships, alliances, syndicates and more. How Canadians use Social Media.

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A digital media framework for smart marketing communications

Sherrilynne Starkie

A client recently asked me to explain it to senior management and what follows is summary of my presentation. You may have heard rumours that Twitter is dead and nobody uses it anymore. But, Twitter is alive and well in Canada. Forty-two per cent of us are on Twitter and 45 per cent of users are on it daily.

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4 Ways to Make Sure You Always Have Something to Say Online

yMarketingMatters

Using RSS (Rich Site Summary, or sometimes Really Simple Syndication) news feeds, which are common on most online publishing sites (look for the familiar orange icon), content aggregators assemble feeds from different sources, including Google and Yahoo Alerts, into one place so you can scan all of them at once to find items of interest.