RSS Strategy Syndication URL 
Adam Sherk
JULY 9, 2009
In looking at syndicated content on Yahoo News, most of the syndicated articles do not include attribution links (each news source likely has to request or provide them), but among those that do exist there is a problem. The Yahoo attribution links do not point directly to the original article URLs.
Adam Sherk
JUNE 30, 2009
However from an SEO perspective there is a downside, as syndication creates duplicate content issues. Search engines don’t want to show users multiple versions of the same content, so when an article has been syndicated it’s likely that one version will be given prominence – and that may or may not be the original.
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Webbiquity SMM
AUGUST 23, 2011
The key is a balanced strategy of search engine optimization (SEO), social media, syndication and guest posting. But it makes sense: the more often your blog is “seen&# on other sites, the more people will bookmark it, subscribe to your RSS feed, and type in the URL directly. Syndication is also helpful.
Adam Sherk
MAY 15, 2009
So the bottom line is, the NYT SEO team strongly advocated the use of permanent 301 redirects from all IHT.com URLs to the corresponding new URLs on NYTimes.com, and they are continuing to do what they can internally to get this implemented as soon as possible. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?
Adam Sherk
OCTOBER 8, 2009
Even when the engines do a reasonable job of filtering out duplicates in their results, sites are essentially shooting themselves in the foot by splitting internal and inbound links to a particular piece of content across multiple URLs. Appending tracking codes to URLs (e.g. ?xid=rss xid=rss or ?cid=top-stories) Syndication.
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 What you should be doing is avoiding duplicate content altogether. xid=topstories or ?cid=partner
Adam Sherk
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
When users click a retweet button, they expect to see something along the lines of: RT @[brand] [headline] [URL] That exact format does not need to be followed, but you want to minimize the work that users need to do before sending out the tweet. Related posts: Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines? Thanks for sharing.
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