Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 18, 2012

8 Social Media Questions Publishers Should Be Asking Themselves. SEO Metrics for Publishers: How are You Tracking and Measuring Success? Publisher Survey: Reddit Traffic Way Up, Digg Way Down. So I did not publish here as frequently as I’d have liked, but I still managed to put out some posts that I was happy with.

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Press Release SEO Digg Sports 119

Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

I also liked the ambitious effort to close the article with some extra links for buying property in Africa: I even got rolled into a tweet promoting the article: Jokes aside, it’s understandable how frustrated publishers and bloggers get with content scraping and article spinning. It really is an epidemic.

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Press Release Sports SEO Buy 111

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Whenever I do a presentation on Google+ for publishers I mention that quite a few news and content brands are among the most followed pages. 15 NBC Sports 60 2,466,391. 51 Sports Illustrated 194 1,369,835. 15 NBC Sports 60 2,466,391. 51 Sports Illustrated 194 1,369,835. PagesRank Reported followers. as of 12/3/13.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Sports Star Pro Mary July 16, 2010 at 10:07 pm I think, once the teams that are in the bottom list know about this, launching their official twitter pages will make a turn-around tide in favor of them. Thanks again–Mike Adam Sherk November 24, 2009 at 6:13 pm Thanks for catching that Mike, I accidently missed them.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 1, 2011

My Top Posts of 2010 on SEO, PR and Social Media for News and Sports. Related posts: The Most Overused Buzzwords and Marketing Speak in Press Releases. PRFilter Shows Press Release Buzzword Abuse Still Prevalent.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 7, 2014

There is also a Top Charts report that lets you examine popular topics in a variety of categories like business, entertainment, sports and more. For additional suggestions see my post on social media analytics tools for publishers. Search Data (@YahooSearchData) a Good Source of Trending Topics for Lifestyle Publishers.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To be fair I do write about PR and I occasionally cover sports and social media, so it’s not completely off base. 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.

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Press Release Sports Team Statistics 108

Adam Sherk

APRIL 5, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular MLB Teams on Twitter and Facebook by Adam Sherk on April 5, 2010 A new baseball season is underway and we are in that wonderfully brief period when fans all over the country still believe this could actually be the year for their team.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 7, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Hearst Skiff Reader Looks Cool by Adam Sherk on January 7, 2010 Hearst’s Skiff Reader is being unveiled at CES this week. It’s an interesting project and it is good to see publishers trying new things, however slow to move they may have been to-date.

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Press Release Syndication Blogroll iPad 101

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 26, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Social Media Super Bowl: Which Team Has More Reach? NFL analysts and sports writers now have two weeks to dissect the matchup, talk about players and schemes and come up with good storylines.

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Team Social Media Digg Press Release 150

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Monitoring search trends and hot topics for keyword targeting and content ideas is a common practice among publishers these days. The Hot Searches on Google Trends tend to be dominated by topics like sports, politics and entertainment with frequent breaking news and stories that attract a lot of attention.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Why the News Business Isn’t Profitable by Guest on September 10, 2010 This is a guest post from Aaron Goldman , author of Everything I Know about Marketing I Learned from Google. So, to all those publishers out there who built their businesses on news.

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News Press Release Survey SEO 121

Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

My Top Posts of 2010 on SEO, PR and Social Media for News and Sports. So my advice: take it easy on those blog tags. Related posts: Blog Tag Optimization Tips for News Sites. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Sports SEO News Issues 118

Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Do People Search for “Breaking News”? Breaking news” is featured in the title tags of sites covering sports, entertainment and a wide range of topics. Breaking news” is featured in the title tags of sites covering sports, entertainment and a wide range of topics.

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News Hitwise Press Release Syndication 100

Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Do People Search for “Breaking News”? Breaking news” is featured in the title tags of sites covering sports, entertainment and a wide range of topics. Breaking news” is featured in the title tags of sites covering sports, entertainment and a wide range of topics.

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News Hitwise Press Release Syndication 100

Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

StumbleUpon Channels are a good opportunity for publishers (and any business involved in content marketing) because they create a direct pipeline to users that are specifically interested in your content. Suffice it to say there are also a number of media brands doing well in TV, technology, sports, celebrity, art and more.

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StumbleUpon Brands Directory Real Estate 120

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 28, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk 10 Quotes on the Apple iPad and the Business of News by Adam Sherk on January 28, 2010 Now that the first wave in the Apple iPad crazy-a-thon has past, I thought I’d do a quick round-up of what people are saying about the iPad from the perspective of the news media.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

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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Team Twitter Facebook Comparison 188

Adam Sherk

MAY 4, 2010

Ok fans could care less about that, but for myself and some sports and social media marketers out there it’s an interesting question. In my post on the most popular NBA teams on Twitter and Facebook (and the more recent one on MLB teams ) I looked strictly at the following each team has built up.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 12, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular NBA Teams on Twitter and Facebook by Adam Sherk on January 12, 2010 NBA players, like many professional athletes, have taken social media by storm, but what about their teams?

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Team Twitter Facebook Press Release 179

Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

By now Twitter is an important part of most publishers’ audience development and content promotion efforts. So to help out I’ve created a list of Twitter tips for publishers. While my list is geared towards publishers the tactics are applicable to most organizations. that I hope are now well-established fundamentals.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 12, 2011

While this tactic is most applicable to sites that cover breaking news and popular topics like sports and entertainment it works in other areas too (see Search Trend Optimization for Evergreen Content ). Make effective use of linking – most publishers aren’t shy about internal and cross-networking linking.

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 2, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Survey: Twitter Less than 1% of Traffic to Newspapers and Magazines; Facebook 1% by Adam Sherk on March 2, 2010 For my presentation on Twitter Marketing Tactics at SMX West this week I wanted to get a sense of just how much traffic Twitter is driving to major news sites.

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Survey Twitter Digg Hitwise 193

Adam Sherk

MARCH 24, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Does Google Want Brands in Your Social Circle? Of the 67 brands in my social circle, only five are major news sites or magazines: The Huffington Post, Sports Illustrated, Real Simple, Business Insider and Hürriyet (a national newspaper in Turkey).

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google Living Stories – Just Snazzy Topic Pages or is Google onto Something? by Adam Sherk on December 8, 2009 Today Google unveiled its Living Stories prototype , showcasing its vision of a new format for presenting news stories online.

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 14, 2012

SEO and social media are now vital components of audience development for publishers of all shapes and sizes, but there are still huge opportunities for improvement. Since infographics are still (kind of) the rage I’ve been meaning to publish one here. Related posts: My Top Posts of 2011 on SEO, PR and Social Media for Publishers.

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