Adam Sherk

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Mobile Visits Account for 40% of All Traffic for Publishers

Adam Sherk

Travel 32%. Hitwise Reports News and Media’s Share of Search-Referred Traffic Declining. Home and Lifestyle 39%. Sports 38%. 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.

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Survey: Pinterest a Great Source of Links for Publishers. What Types of Sites Get the Most Links?

Adam Sherk

Lately I’ve been noticing some impressive Pinterest link counts in the linking domains report under “Links to Your Sites.” Travel 30,622 1,457. Travel 49,431 1,586. 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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29% of the Top 500 Google+ Pages are News and Content Sites

Adam Sherk

It should be noted that the follower counts reported by CircleCount typically lag behind the actual figure. PagesRank Reported followers. 6 Travel Channel 26 3,335,575. PagesRank Reported followers. 6 Travel Channel 26 3,335,575. PagesRank Reported followers. 6 Travel Channel 26 3,335,575.

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Why the News Business Isn't Profitable

Adam Sherk

It’s simply no longer profitable for companies to report “news.” The company has remade itself into a new era media firm by eliminating a lot of the overhead associated with producing content — via Seed.com — and focusing on topics that are more commercial in nature — travel, finance, auto, etc — rather than news.

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