Adam Sherk

MAY 14, 2013

These activities typically involve collaboration with multiple groups including tech, edit and audience development as well as the SEO, PR and social media teams. The primary motivator here isn’t typically link building, but the resulting accumulation of links and social shares is a nice side benefit. Widgets and badges.

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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. SocialTwist examined content shared with its Tell-a-Friend widget from August 2009 to July 2010.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 26, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News Sites by Adam Sherk on April 26, 2010 There has been a lot of news and reaction around Facebook’s new additions to the Facebook Platform: Social Plugins, the Open Graph protocol and the Graph API.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Pages also allow for more functionality like special widgets and custom tabs. One advantage of Facebook Pages is they allow journalists to keep their personal profiles completely personal, which is attractive to those who like to maintain a firm boundary between their work and home lives.

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