Adam Sherk

JULY 9, 2009

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. The Yahoo attribution links do not point directly to the original article URLs.

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Proactive Report

JANUARY 11, 2012

A statement in the first point absolutely floored me: While a press release does not necessarily need to be well-written. … What could possibly lead anyone to the conclusion that a press release doesn’t have to be well-written? The purpose of a press release has changed; that I am the first to acknowledge.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites Not Making Much Use of Static FBML on Facebook Pages by Adam Sherk on June 9, 2010 Between privacy issues, a sweaty CEO and technical problems with its “Like&# buttons Facebook is having a rough time lately.

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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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Adam Sherk

APRIL 13, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk 25 Major News Sites Ranked by Page Speed by Adam Sherk on April 13, 2010 Now that site speed is officially a Google ranking factor, site performance and page load time are important for SEO as well as usability. UPDATE: After Mike’s comment below I added Yahoo!

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 29, 2011

Rewrite it so that it isn’t duplicate content and distribute it to a few publishers around the Web to see if someone wants it. Unloads Delicious Kudos To HubPages » Revamping Old Content About once a year or so you should go through your old content and update it. Sometimes you can turn a popular blog post into an article.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? CNN, BBC News, Yahoo News, The Guardian and The Huffington Post form the next tier. I’m really surprised only 4 “new&# media made the top 30: Yahoo, Huffington, Slate, AOL. on their site).

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 16, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Real-time Search Optimization for News Sites by Adam Sherk on March 16, 2010 The major search engines are making real-time search a priority, resulting in good visibility opportunities for news sites especially for breaking news.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular News Sites on YouTube by Adam Sherk on August 31, 2010 YouTube is both a major opportunity and an interesting challenge for news sites. 2) I also did not find a channel for Yahoo! News or AOL News although there is a general channel for Yahoo!

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 20, 2009

This is encouraging news for publishers as previously once an article was indexed in Google News no changes or updates to it would be registered. This is encouraging news for publishers as previously once an article was indexed in Google News no changes or updates to it would be registered.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Brian Solis and Deirdre Breakenridge just published an excellent book, Putting the Public Back in Public Relations. There’s no effort in adding thousands of email addresses to an address book, performing a mail merge, and sending off a generic press release. Email facilitates communications. Guess what? His response?

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Adam Sherk

JULY 23, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Buried News Sites on Digg by Adam Sherk on July 23, 2009 It’s no secret that mainstream news sites are experiencing increased exposure on social news sites like Digg. Back in March Soshable noted that 46% of the Digg front page is controlled by 50 websites.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 11, 2008

He will also be releasing a new book called Me 2.0: 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!

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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

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk How to Identify Your Own Top Trends by Adam Sherk on December 22, 2009 Yesterday Facebook shared its Top Status Trends of 2009 , providing insight into what terms most commonly occurred in users’ status updates.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 1, 2009

A tactic that some news and content sites employ is monitoring Google’s Hot Trends list in an effort to identify hot topics and then quickly produce matching content around them. Does this work? Many search trends come and go quickly, so sites that cover a topic after its peak will likely miss out on the larger search engine visibility opportunity.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 13, 2009

Reviews in particular offer a good opportunity for publishers as many content sites produce multiple types of reviews on a regular basis. Related posts: Yahoo Adds Enhanced News Results to SearchMonkey Google Social Search: Are You in Your Target Audiences’ Social Circles? Initially Google is supporting data on reviews and people.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 30, 2009

One of the most common concerns I hear from publishers is the fact that syndication partners are outranking them for their own content. UPDATE: In December 2009 Google began supporting the rel=&# canonical&# tag across different domains, giving publishers another tool to use in mitigating duplicate content issues caused by syndication.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Do People Search for “Breaking News”? And if I want to get an overview of the current news of the day I’ll go to Google News or Yahoo! Breaking news” is featured in the title tags of sites covering sports, entertainment and a wide range of topics.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Do People Search for “Breaking News”? And if I want to get an overview of the current news of the day I’ll go to Google News or Yahoo! Breaking news” is featured in the title tags of sites covering sports, entertainment and a wide range of topics.

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Proactive Report

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Most press releases published online are read by the public looking for data and a survey by Outsell found that online press releases are a major source of data for BtoB buyers prior to purchase. But you may be surprised to see that Yahoo News is number one – they have the largest news audience in the world!

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Adam Sherk

MAY 22, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines? The headline/title tag tip is also included in their Help for Publishers guidelines on article titles ). But linking with the article headline is something that publishers should do when possible.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites by Adam Sherk on October 8, 2009 Although search engines keep improving on their ability to deal with duplicate content, this continues to be one of the main SEO issues facing news and content sites.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 4, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers? by Adam Sherk on August 4, 2010 The new Digg has gotten a lot of attention for the opportunities it creates for publishers (see ReadWriteWeb and BlueGlass for details).

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Adam Sherk

MAY 15, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk New York Times Plans to Implement Permanent Redirects on IHT.com URLs by Adam Sherk on May 15, 2009 For anyone who’s been following the story of the shutting down of IHT.com and the migration of International Herald Tribune content to the New York Times Global Edition , there has (..)

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 8, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Wrap, Newser and Content Aggregation: How Much Attribution is Enough? A lot of the publishers we work with are constantly getting their content scraped; it’s a real problem. Adam Sherk April 11, 2010 at 10:27 am Thanks for the input Tamar.

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Laurel Papworth

MARCH 15, 2010

Anyway here’s my thoughts, right after the Twitter blog/press release : Monday, March 15, 2010. When we’re ready to launch, initial participating sites will include Amazon, AdAge, Bing, Citysearch, Digg, eBay, The Huffington Post, Meebo, MSNBC.com, The New York Times, Salesforce.com, Yahoo!, and YouTube.

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ProBlogger

MAY 19, 2022

In fact, a blog is just a tool for publishing and conversing online. A blog is no longer used to merely publish blog type content. Quick advice: combine web publishing and other media to reach your audience. Send out press releases. Check out part 1 , part 2 , part 3 and part 4. Social media.

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ProBlogger

MAY 19, 2022

In fact, a blog is just a tool for publishing and conversing online. A blog is no longer used to merely publish blog type content. Quick advice: combine web publishing and other media to reach your audience. Send out press releases. Driving people to offline store is out of the scope of this post.). Social media.

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Writtent Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Publish articles in trade or local magazines. Most people think published work is more valuable than a simple blog post, and articles cost less than advertising in the same magazine. Publishing articles online creates good backlinks to your website, shows expertise, builds credibility, and more. Reuse content.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 3, 2012

A search of the local ad industry trade sites will normally tell you which agency handles the account, and buying team members are often quoted in press releases. Most blogs can’t compete on reach, and shouldn’t be competing on price with mainstream publishers. These are issues major publishers also face.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 15, 2011

Write truly informative and useful articles related to your niche, and publish them on WikiPedia. Submit your blog to search engines like Google , Yahoo and Bing. Write creative and attention-grabbing ads about your blog, and publish them on free classified ads sites such as CraigsList and UsFreeAds.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Will Publishers Add Cross-Domain Rel=Canonical to Syndication Deals? If you’re not familiar with rel=&# canonical&# see Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the Canonical URL Tag ). Do my publishers need to use rel=&# canonical&# ?

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Proactive Report

JULY 23, 2018

These rules apply to all your content – web pages, newsroom, articles, press releases, and blogs. When you produce and publish content about your company you obviously present the brand in the best possible light. Every time a reporter uses your press release content and includes a link to your site, that’s an earned link.

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Viper Chill

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Funny how I just published a post about keyword optimization at the same time. Question, typically, how long a time interval should you allow for a submitted guest article to either be published or declined before sending it off to someone else? Sorry mate I am trying to do the backling check on my site using yahoo.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 6, 2015

Is there still a role for press releases? Guides to PR Content and Press Releases. ” The 10 Commandments of Press Release Writing by PR Breakfast Club. ” The 10 Commandments of Press Release Writing by PR Breakfast Club. What Journalists Really Think Of Your Press Release by Forbes.

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Writtent Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Every marketer with an internet collection gasped when Matt Cutts, Google’s head webspam fighter, published these words on his personal blog a little over a week ago. So, is it truly pointless to publish guest content? Is your company’s latest press release a guest blog if it gets picked up by a major publication?

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