Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 7, 2014

There’s also a domain comparison report that allows you to see what terms a competitor is ranking for that you are not (or alternatively what intersecting terms you share). By the time a trend makes it to the Hot Searches report in Google Trends it is often too late to capitalize on it. A keyword difficulty score is also provided.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 17, 2012

These are the findings of the annual ForeSee American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) E-Business Report that was released today. According to the report it “has a good understanding of its visitors’ wants and needs and has done an incredible job at not just meeting expectations, but surpassing them.”

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 9, 2014

SimilarWeb reports on search traffic from all engines so the news search data includes more than just Google News. It’s also interesting that BuzzFeed has the lowest reported percentage with just 0.69% of total search visits coming from news search.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Hitwise Reports News and Media’s Share of Search-Referred Traffic Declining. An added note is that sites with a younger demographic tended to have a higher mobile percentage. There was not a consistent pattern for sites with a larger male or female audience. Related posts: How Much Search and Social Media Traffic Do Publishers Get?

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Adam Sherk

JULY 10, 2012

For example, take a look at the +1 Audience Report from the Google Webmaster Tools profile of a major fashion site. The demographics of Google+ are typically described as predominantly male and young. But that is not always the case; sites that are geared towards women are drawing a Google+ audience that is largely female.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Search Marketing Dwarfs Social Media in Interactive Marketing Budgets by Adam Sherk on December 17, 2009 This week both Brian Solis and SEOMoz made reference to a recent Forrester report forecasting US interactive marketing budgets for the next five years.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 8, 2011

Earlier this week Search Engine Land reported that Christian Oestlien, the Ads Lead for Google+, had posted a message asking businesses to hold off on using personal accounts to create business pages and that non-user profiles would be shut down.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Analytics and reporting are critical. The level and style of reporting should be tailored to specific audiences. Assigning a level of impact and level of effort to each gives you a meaningful system to use in making compromises. “Dyn-o-mite!” Evans, Good Times. In most cases keeping it simple is best. “Aaay!

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 16, 2011

PEJ Study Shows Print Still Primary Source of Original News Reporting. Related posts: Pew Research News Survey: Findings on Search Engines, Social Networks and Twitter. Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About Reliability of Information.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Yahoo and Google were among the most frequently mentioned websites for online news, indicating that users see them as sources for news (be it original reporting or aggregation) and not just search vehicles. For the full findings on search engines and social media see section two of the Pew report.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 24, 2012

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. Related posts: Email Press Release Optimization Circa 1999.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 12, 2011

It is also easy for agencies to white label the reports. Simply Measured’s Facebook Fan Page Analytics gets a gold star for clear, simple data visualization. They roll up the analysis into a series of graphs and charts that can be viewed online or exported to Excel or PowerPoint. EdgeRank Checker.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 12, 2011

But based on public reports the real life Chris Hughes did apparently make a valuable contribution to Facebook and he went on to do good work for the Barack Obama campaign and then found Jumo. See FastCompany and The New York Times for more on Hughes.].

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 15, 2010

According to the Social Media Sharing Trends 2010 report from SocialTwist, Facebook dominates content sharing among social media sites but links shared on Twitter have a much higher click-through rate. What gets more traction for publishers: content shared on Facebook or Twitter?

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 19, 2012

Users regularly look to news organizations and reporters (as well as individuals) on Twitter for additional information particularly in breaking news situations. Another thing to remember is that even when Facebook and Twitter are not the primary source for news they are an amazing supplementary source.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 23, 2009

According to a Hitwise US News & Media Report back in 2007, on average search engine referrals represent about 23% of traffic to print media sites. Side note: Hitwise, you’re overdue for an updated version of that report!).

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 14, 2012

Lately I’ve been noticing some impressive Pinterest link counts in the linking domains report under “Links to Your Sites.” I spend a lot of time auditing websites which means I am regularly in the Google Webmaster Tools profiles for a variety of sites.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

It is interesting that BBC News beats out the NYT despite having significantly fewer (reported) inbound links and indexed pages. A large group of sites have hostrank scores in the 3,000s or 4,000s so there is not a lot of separation between the news organizations in the middle of the pack.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 23, 2013

Participation, budgets and timing varies greatly for the sites in this group and I am not able to segment that in the reported data. One thing that is important to point out is that some publishers participate in StumbleUpon Paid Discovery which has an impact on their traffic figures. Declines in StumbleUpon Traffic: 2012 vs. 2011.

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StumbleUpon Sites Content Survey 172

Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk I Hope News Corp Does Block its Content from Google by Adam Sherk on November 23, 2009 More developments in the Rupert Murdoch vs. Google saga today, as the Financial Times reports that discussions have taken place between News Corp and Microsoft on an exclusive deal with Bing that (..)

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

To reporters’ sources? If we’re truly in an era of open-source journalism, I say reporters share their access (sort of) to sources via Twitter lists. This isn’t to say the sources will RESPOND, but it’s an interesting way of opening one’s reporter notebook to a willing audience.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

There are also attribution links to the original articles (although those links point to redirected feed URLs): I like seeing what friends have read too: Reporting friend activity gets overdone in social media, but in this particular app it did successfully get my attention. I was curious to check out what some real friends had read.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Related posts: PEJ Study Shows Print Still Primary Source of Original News Reporting. For those of us who spend all too much time muddling through marketing copy, Wordcatcher is a wonderful reminder of the magical qualities of words. Why the News Business Isn’t Profitable. Do People Search for “Breaking News”?

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Adam Sherk

JULY 23, 2013

Your organization invested significant resources in reporting or producing the article. When determining whether to use this tag for your own article, consider whether that article meets the following criteria. Your article is an original source for the story. The article deserves special recognition.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 20, 2009

reports from its search page are not very complete or accurate (you get better data on URLs you’ve personally shortened in your history when signed into bit.ly). Unfortunately I discovered that the “total clicks” figures bit.ly So I wasn’t able to learn anything meaningful there.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2010

But since the 21,839 subscribers reported in YouTube’s search results make it a top 5 news channel I included it in the table. that does include some news videos. 3) When I try to click through on the BCC World News channel included in the table above I get a “This channel is not available” message.

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Sites News YouTube Press Release 182

Adam Sherk

APRIL 19, 2011

SEMRush’s “Competitors in Google” report ranks a site’s competitors by the number of keyword phrases for which both sites appear in Google’s organic search results. But in terms of keyword targeting, how different is eHow from major news sites?

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Sites News Posterous Reputation 125

Adam Sherk

MARCH 8, 2012

The New York Times in particular is good at combining user content with original reporting or doing interesting things with it through data visualization. In addition they can pull in user-generated social content into some sort of value-added package on their own site.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

This is not surprising based on the reactions that Fox News reporting tends to generate from both sides of the political fence. Fox News is strongly ahead in terms of fan engagement and activity – their like and comment numbers are significantly greater than any of the other sites.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

If news organizations can’t stay in business, they won’t be playing any role at all. Related posts: Video Interview: Rupert Murdoch Doesn’t Like Search So Much Does Social Media Increase a Journalist’s Value? too bad google doesn’t allow the sale of text link ads or aol could really clean up in a few years.

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Hitwise Press Release Adsense Syndication 110

Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

Related posts: Free Tools for Monitoring Hot Search Trends News Sites: Tame Your Blog Tags Real-time Search Optimization for News Sites 5 Ways to Deal with Seasonal Dips in Search Engine Traffic Hitwise Reports News and Media’s Share of Search-Referred Traffic Declining Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts (..)

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

Related posts: Free Tools for Monitoring Hot Search Trends News Sites: Tame Your Blog Tags Real-time Search Optimization for News Sites 5 Ways to Deal with Seasonal Dips in Search Engine Traffic Hitwise Reports News and Media’s Share of Search-Referred Traffic Declining Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts (..)

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 11, 2010

I’ll do a follow-up post when there is more data to report on. Once the new Digg moves out of alpha and has some time to gain traction we’ll get a better sense of how interested users are in drilling down on specific sources, topics and locations. Related posts: News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers?

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 14, 2010

Unfortunately there are increasing reports of donation fraud online, so major news organizations are playing a vital role in directing people to credible, legitimate groups. I’ve been impressed by how much attention the media has given to promoting ways that people can make donations.

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News Sites Digg Press Release 129

Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

It’s simply no longer profitable for companies to report “news.” I’ve been through the book and it’s a good read; for more information check out GoogleyLessons.com. – Adam The traditional news business, as we have known it, is dead. OK, maybe not dead. But dying a quick death.

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News Press Release Survey SEO 121

Adam Sherk

MAY 14, 2013

A good way to investigate this is to review the Crawl Errors report in Google Webmaster Tools, which shows URLs with 404, 500 and other errors that Google encountered while crawling the site. You’d be surprised at how many existing links (both internal and external) may be pointing to incorrect or discontinued URLs.

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Publishing Module Syndication Badge 209

Adam Sherk

MAY 19, 2009

Related posts: Top 10 Reasons The New York Times is Really Putting up a Paywall Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage of Site Traffic Video Interview: Rupert Murdoch Doesn’t Like Search So Much The Most Popular News Sites on YouTube Hitwise Reports News and Media’s Share of Search-Referred Traffic Declining (..)

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