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Yahoo! Alerts Gone Awry?

Bill Hartzer

Because I like to monitor my name, Bill Hartzer , to make sure I’m kept up to date on all of my new “mentions” on the web, several years ago I set up Google Alerts and Yahoo! The past couple of days I have been getting Yahoo! In fact, it’s been years since I set up this Yahoo! There is a Yahoo!

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Tweet Containing Swear Word Appears on Yahoo! Homepage

Bill Hartzer

I’ve always considered the Yahoo! So much so that I’m reconsidering my usage of Yahoo! How is it that a Tweet from Twitter, along with a pretty nasty swear word gets listed as a news story on the site’s home page? Perhaps this “news story” made it onto Yahoo!’s

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Yahoo! Search Data (@YahooSearchData) a Good Source of Trending Topics for Lifestyle Publishers

Adam Sherk

So what’s a lifestyle site covering things like food, fashion or home to do? One good source is @YahooSearchData on Twitter. I’d given Yahoo! Take a look at some recent tweets: Crafts of all types are buzzingon @ Yahoo including “paper crafts”, “kids crafts”“duct tape crafts,” “4th of July crafts”.

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Yahoo Adds Enhanced News Results to searchmonkey

Adam Sherk

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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Google+ Engagement for News Sites: Top Performers and One-Year Growth Rates

Adam Sherk

Which news sites get the most engagement on their Google+ pages? As with my previous comparison, I used All my + to pull data on +1′s, shares and comments for every post on the official Google+ pages of a selection of news sites. 1 Mashable 239.86 2 BBC News 147.34 3 The Economist 125.84 4 TIME 109.73 5 The New York Times 94.39

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25 Major News Sites Ranked By Page Speed

Adam Sherk

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. So which news sites fared best?

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Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? by Adam Sherk on October 6, 2010 It is safe to say that most news sites are now experimenting with various forms of user engagement and content promotion through social media. on their site).

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