Adam Sherk

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10 Things That Expose Good Sites to Google Panda

Adam Sherk

We work with a lot of major publishers and nearly all of them have had at least a few titles get hit by Panda in recent years. So I thought I’d share some of the most common causes of Panda problems for reputable publishers. Hopefully this will help others to avoid a similar fate.

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8 Critical SEO and Digital Marketing Opportunities

Adam Sherk

So I put together a round-up of current SEO and digital marketing trends that offer good opportunities for publishers. For publishers there is promise, however it’s too soon to say if the pros will outweigh cons such as giving up some control and/or technical complications. Site Speed.

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

Adam Sherk

As a result they may do too little or too much, risking momentum and their reputation right out of the gate. My friend has since taken this advice and his company now has inbound sales and a growing positive reputation that has given him further confidence to start another company. 7 Conversion Rate Optimization Tips for Publishers.

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Search Trend Optimization for Evergreen Content

Adam Sherk

Monitoring search trends and hot topics for keyword targeting and content ideas is a common practice among publishers these days. For publishers that focus on evergreen content such as lifestyle topics the available trend data is much more limited. But that doesn’t mean that opportunities never arise. The Down Side.

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Free Tools for Monitoring Hot Search Trends

Adam Sherk

You can also use keyword and reputation monitoring tools, real-time search tools and popular/meme lists for articles, tweets, social media submissions, etc. 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.

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Harlem Globetrotters Press Release: Not Sure Why I Got It, But I Kind of Like It

Adam Sherk

Life is better with buckets of water and confetti: 2) To prove the point that blogs sometimes do publish press releases verbatim, as I referenced in a post about a PEJ study on original news reporting a couple years ago. So here is the complete press release. billion media impressions in 2012.

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The Most Popular NFL Teams on Twitter and Facebook: 2010 Season

Adam Sherk

The usual caveats: Social media isn’t a popularity contest and reach does not equal influence, engagement or action These figures will quickly be out-of-date (they probably were before I could hit the “publish” button) But those things aside, it is interesting to take a snapshot at various times for the purposes of comparison.

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