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. The short answer? Not so many.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites: Tame Your Blog Tags by Adam Sherk on February 19, 2010 Ever notice all the tags that some blogs add to their posts? Adding a few meaningful tags is fine, but news sites in particular have a habit of taking this practice much too far.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 22, 2016

Perhaps you’re familiar with the term “distributed content” ( content that is published to third-party platforms rather than to an owned website). While this may have been an unthinkable strategy for a small-to-medium-sized business a few months ago, Facebook and Apple recently opened their platforms to all publishers.

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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. So which news sites fared best?

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Kikolani

JANUARY 20, 2010

Here are 11 WordPress plugins which should help you in various ways, from “tracking activities of your visitors” to “greeting them personally” so that you can achieve your goal of getting more traffic. This plugin will enhance the power of WordPress default search feature. Your Favorite WordPress Plugins for Increasing Traffic.

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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

JUNE 15, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites on Twitter: Who is Making the Most Impact? But Twitter, Facebook in some cases Digg still represent the majority of social media referrals to many news sites, so they continue to be a priority. 2,461,060 2 @cnnbrk 77.3% 3,139,883 3 @TIME 76.9%

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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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Viper Chill

MARCH 21, 2013

Though niches that have more web savvy audiences like marketing or technology are more likely to be affected, this is going to impact anyone who has built up their RSS readership. Also, doing it now means you can alert them again in the future with enough of a gap to remind them without annoying people who don’t subscribe via RSS.

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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. Using di66.net’s 403 14 dailymail.co.uk 387 15 telegraph.co.uk

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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

JANUARY 14, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Help Haiti: News Sites Promote Ways to Donate by Adam Sherk on January 14, 2010 As the devastation and human tragedy caused by the Haiti earthquake grows, people are flocking to the news media for information, and more importantly to learn ways that they can help.

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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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Rebekah Radice

AUGUST 27, 2016

Every day the demand grows for faster sites and a better user experience. billion monthly active users on mobile , they decided to develop “Instant Articles,” allowing brands to publish articles to the app that load with unprecedented speed. Want to see how you can add them to your WordPress or Hubspot website?

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But at this early stage, how strong are the marketing opportunities for news sites? At a minimum news sites should set up an official profile and experiment with “buzz this” buttons on their templates. Facebook itself is making a push to get users to create personalized news channels that benefit both users and news sites.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 30, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the Canonical URL Tag by Adam Sherk on April 30, 2009 Really you shouldn’t need it. xid=rss (or ?xid=topstories Which News Sites Have the Most Valuable Facebook Pages? { xid=topstories or

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers? That may be getting carried away but the new format does have some advantages for publishers, although they are not being fully utilized by Google News yet. The main opportunity comes from the new tags.

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Jason Yormark

AUGUST 9, 2010

WordPress has changed the game and opened up the door giving the potential for anyone to create and publish great content and possibly earn a few bucks in the process. I’ve been toying around with WordPress for years, and the formula for launching a professional grade blog is not as difficult or expensive as you would think.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 5, 2009

While it’s good news that Google is continuing to improve its ability to deal with JavaScript, this change also impacts the way that many publishers display sponsored links on their sites. Is Google going to run out and start penalizing sites with sponsored links in JavaScript? JVC Facebook Page Sweepstakes a Big Success.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 10, 2021

What’s the best way to get a site taken down? Someone is scraping my blog and putting it all on their site – including my name.”. “I I recently discovered that another site had copied one of my articles and republished it without my permission. Manage your RSS feeds. image drag/drop/save. text selection/drag/drop.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Analyse your RSS Feed Your RSS readership is just as important as tracking your visitors with Google Analytics. I have all of my blogs pushing their RSS feeds through Feedburner. The same is true about getting more readers to subscribe to your RSS feed.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 19, 2012

So we moved some client sites to Feedblitz , others decided to use WordPress’s free built in RSS feed tool. Now, this blog is syndicated on several sites and I send the RSS feed to Triberr and quite a few other places and they seemed to be getting the feed, so what gives? That’s the thing. Important!

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 11, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Pro PR Tips: 100 PR Tips from Rafe Needleman Published as a Book by Adam Sherk on August 11, 2009 Yesterday I received a copy of Rafe Needleman ’s Pro PR Tips in the mail from ITDatabase. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Even if you use an out-of-the-box WordPress theme , have the header changed. Craft your RSS feed content to avoid making it easy for content thieves. Michael Martinez published this post about how scraper blogs exploit RSS feeds like Feedburner by sending out links to blogs on a buy list. Start video blogging more.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 20, 2013

If you have a few hours to invest, here are 3 ways to transform your WordPress blog (or website) into a search-friendly traffic generator. My favorite free SEO solution is WordPress SEO by Yoast , which makes it easy as red light, yellow light, green light. All of them are free, other than the time you’ll invest. She blogs at [link].

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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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Jason Yormark

AUGUST 25, 2010

I’ve embedded them as images since WordPress doesn’t play too nice with real tables (please, anyone with any insights on this one, do share!). For those not familiar, Postrank is a nifty little WordPress plugin that provides some analysis into the social engagement factor of the content you create.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 11, 2010

This is particularly appealing for publishers with content that may be of interest to specific audiences as opposed to the wider Digg user base. In my post on news sites on the new Digg I noted that NBC has created a series of city-specific profiles to target local markets. Will it work with local news? NBC is trying to find out.

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Freelance Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Thoughts on Social Media Trends in 2010 by cinta5 on November 4, 2009 David Armano of HarvardBusiness.org published on Monday what he believes to be the social media trends in 2010. Featuring the Thesis Wufoo Skin WordPress Admin

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 24, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Do Google’s Expanded Domain Results Apply to News and Video Listings? This gives publishers the opportunity for greater exposure to users looking for content from their specific site (and who may not be familiar with the “site:” search operator).

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? 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? Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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Stay N' Alive

MAY 9, 2011

It was klunky, and seemed very limited compared to my self-hosted Wordpress install I had been on for years. Just last year, I was running this blog on a self-hosted Wordpress instance, the same server I was running SocialToo.com. Instantaneous RSS updates. But I was intrigued at what Rick Klau had told me. The Choices.

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Freelance Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Unique Value Proposition by cinta5 on December 23, 2008 GrokDotCom has been talking about Unique Value Proposition (UVP) for some time now and today published a case study on how it can help conversion.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 6, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Newsweek on Tumblr: Good Effort, Needs More Engagement by Adam Sherk on January 6, 2010 Awareness of Newsweek’s Tumblr site has been increasing of late. That’s critical for giving the site stand-alone value as opposed to just being a feeder site to Newsweek.com.

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Kikolani

AUGUST 6, 2012

Instead of paying each time someone clicks on your ad, you’ll want to choose to have FB throw out a ton of ad impressions, and just hope that yours will get clicked on, while paying FB each time they insert so many impressions on their site. From there WordPress has already included one ping aggregator. Really Simple Syndication.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 19, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Alicia Keys Facebook Page: I’d Sign Up if She Asked Me All Cool by Adam Sherk on January 19, 2010 Want to use your Facebook Page to build out your mailing list? Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage of Site Traffic by Adam Sherk on October 23, 2009 Yesterday posts from eMarketer and Marketing Pilgrim called my attention to some interesting social media statistics put out by advertising network Chitika.

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