Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? PostRank counts “engagement events” which it defines as individual activities such as a tweet, like, comment, digg, RSS view, etc. So I ran 30+ news sites through the tool.

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APRIL 30, 2013

And since social media and Google+ in particular have an impact on SEO there are also secondary benefits to locating influencers there. The tool indexes millions of RSS feeds and a Feed Authority score is applied to each. CircleCount and FindPeopleonPlus are decent databases of Google+ users. Fresh Web Explorer. Google Blog Search.

Blogger 196

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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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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? More than one news site has specifically asked me if adding this block of tag links to the top of posts is good for SEO.

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Sites News Press Release SEO 112

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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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.

Hitwise 124

Hitwise Social Media Digg Survey 124

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.

Press Release 138

Press Release Facebook Syndication Blogroll 138

Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get the Most Engagement? Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme. in the sidebars and subpages.

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Sites News Engagement Facebook 238

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.

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Sites News Yahoo Journal 161

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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.

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News Sites Yahoo Facebook 181

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 11, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk PEJ Study Shows Print Still Primary Source of Original News Reporting by Adam Sherk on January 11, 2010 The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released a study today of the modern news ecosystem, examining a week of news activity in Baltimore, MD.

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Study News Press Release Report 147

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk How to Identify Your Own Top Trends by Adam Sherk on December 22, 2009 Yesterday Facebook shared its Top Status Trends of 2009 , providing insight into what terms most commonly occurred in users’ status updates. This post will difinitly help me with my advertising website.

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Trends How To Digg Press Release 167

Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

source=rss, ?xid=newsletter, Marketing teams like to track referrals from newsletters, RSS, partnerships, internal navigation, etc. Tags: SEO. While not a perfect solution it is often the best option available in cases like duplicate content caused by appending tracking codes to URLs (e.g. ?source=rss, xid=newsletter, ?nav=home).

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URL Syndication Newsletter RSS 114

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google Social Search: Are You in Your Target Audiences’ Social Circles? For news and content sites the task is fairly straightforward as lots of users are already subscribed to their RSS feeds, Twitter accounts, Facebook Pages, etc. If not how do we get there?

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Google Google Reader Press Release Survey 109

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. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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Tumblr Engagement Press Release Syndication 131

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.

Social Media 123

Social Media Marketing Press Release Survey 123

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. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

Press Release 101

Press Release Syndication Blogroll iPad 101

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 21, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About Reliability of Information by Adam Sherk on January 21, 2010 Yesterday Cision released the results of their Social Media and Online Usage Study, a survey of social media usage by print and Web journalists.

Social Media 122

Social Media Press Release Microblogging Survey 122

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme. 2 comments… read them below or add one } Gary Gregory October 9, 2009 at 4:51 pm Thank you for the list!

Trends 146

Trends Tools Embedding Digg 146

Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk AOL Newsroom: A Model for the Future or Shades of 2001? Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme. Are you sure you want to write that article, Dave?

Hitwise 110

Hitwise Press Release Adsense Syndication 110

Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Make the Most of Your Retweet Buttons by Adam Sherk on February 25, 2010 In working on my presentation for the Twitter Marketing Tactics session at SMX West next week I’ve been looking at the various types of share and retweet buttons used on news sites.

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Syndication URL Press Release SEO 117

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? Some additional notes: 1) It is not clear yet how well using an RSS feed to automatically submit articles is working. We don’t have an RSS import functionality, but we are looking into it.

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Digg Sites News Activities 134

Adam Sherk

MAY 26, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Where Do You Want Your Social Media Press Releases to Live? Whether it is individual releases or your entire newsroom, hosting on PitchEngine means that the content is not on your site, so your domain loses the SEO benefit of the links pointing to that content.

Press Release 102

Press Release Social Media Syndication Hosting 102

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.

Sites 105

Sites News Strategy Twitter 105

Adam Sherk

JUNE 12, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Daily Show Visits The New York Times by Adam Sherk on June 12, 2009 I couldn’t resist sharing this great video from The Daily Show of Jason Jones visiting The New York Times. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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Press Release Syndication Blogroll Foursquare 100

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Yahoo Adds Enhanced News Results to SearchMonkey by Adam Sherk on August 31, 2009 On Friday Yahoo announced new additions to its SearchMonkey enhanced results, including options for news content. Not sure what SearchMonkey is?

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Yahoo News Syndication Press Release 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? Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme. by Adam Sherk on January 26, 2010 So the Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saints will meet in Miami for Super Bowl XLIV.

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Team Social Media Digg Press Release 150

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? Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme. There is of course much more to the social media universe than just The Bobbsey Twins.

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News Sites Twitter Digg 165

Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Danny Sullivan has been covering the SEO aspects of this story in depth – these posts provide an overview of the key points better than I could summarize here: Thoughts On A “Killer&# Bing-News Corp Deal & The Myth Of An “OPEC For News&# If Newspapers Were Stores, Would Visitors Be “Worthless&# Then?

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News Google Hitwise Press Release 101

Adam Sherk

APRIL 14, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Corporate Social Media Marketing is about Two-Way Communication by Adam Sherk on April 14, 2009 It’s a simple concept, but one that many companies are still struggling with in terms of practical implementation.

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Social Media Press Release Syndication Marketing 100

Adam Sherk

JULY 22, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Smart Move from Condé Nast: GQ and DETAILS Should Have Their Own Websites by Adam Sherk on July 22, 2009 There’s been a lot of coverage this week of Condé Nast bringing in McKinsey & Company to help them restructure the business, which hopefully will work out for them.

Press Release 100

Press Release Syndication Blogroll Consultant 100

Adam Sherk

JULY 28, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Article Highlights: Good for Users, Good for Search Engines by Adam Sherk on July 28, 2009 Yesterday Steve Rubel pointed out how the article highlights on sites like CNN.com and iMedia Connection are a good time saver for him.

Engineering 100

Engineering Press Release Survey Syndication 100

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 Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

Issues 100

Issues Publishing URL Syndication 100

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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Team Twitter Facebook Comparison 204

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 14, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Great Example of a Multimedia News Article from ESPN.com by Adam Sherk on August 14, 2009 Recently I wrote about the importance of including meaningful content in videos embedded in press releases.

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Examples News Press Release Embedding 102

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. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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News Press Release Survey SEO 121

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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News Sites Digg Press Release 129