Adam Sherk

MARCH 16, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Real-time Search Optimization for News Sites by Adam Sherk on March 16, 2010 The major search engines are making real-time search a priority, resulting in good visibility opportunities for news sites especially for breaking news.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 14, 2010

So instead I pulled out the US news sites from my comparison post on news site social media engagement to come up with a sampling of newspapers, magazines, TV, wire services and Web-only news organizations. How do the US news sites stack up? The Huffington Post. Los Angeles Times. The New York Times. The Wall Street Journal.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 9, 2013

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 6 Breaking News 75.56 7 The Next Web 87.36 8 NBC News 85.25 9 The Guardian 81.25 10 The Wall Street Journal 72.8 11 The Verge 70.76 12 TechCrunch 63.92 13 CNET 52.7 14 msnbc 44.94 16 Le Monde 30.1 17 CNN International 39.76 18 Al Jazeera English 35.85

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Adam Sherk

JULY 30, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Videos in Press Releases are Cool – If They Provide Meaningful Content by Adam Sherk on July 30, 2009 Executive quotes in press releases are notorious for lacking any kind of substantial information. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

JULY 23, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Buried News Sites on Digg by Adam Sherk on July 23, 2009 It’s no secret that mainstream news sites are experiencing increased exposure on social news sites like Digg. Using di66.net’s Using di66.net’s 403 14 dailymail.co.uk 387 15 telegraph.co.uk

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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

JANUARY 10, 2012

Normally in posts like Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? Most are from the US but there are a handful of international sites too. I omitted location-focused outlets such as local TV stations. Here are 45 news organizations ranked by the combined figure of total +1’s, shares and comments per post: Google+ Page +1's.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular News Sites on YouTube by Adam Sherk on August 31, 2010 YouTube is both a major opportunity and an interesting challenge for news sites. 2) I also did not find a channel for Yahoo! that does include some news videos.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 7, 2014

There are a wide range of tools for monitoring trending topics and content performance in social, too many to try to cover here. For additional suggestions see my post on social media analytics tools for publishers. Social Mention: Trends. So it is a good source of both ideas and basic competitive analysis.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 10, 2011

The Wall Street Journal 52,031 9,546 445%. Huffington Post 45,435 4,773 852%. The Daily Beast 37,936 300 12545%. Breaking News 31,272 1,695 1745%. BBC News 25,601 9,222 178%. News 24,219 1,212 1898%. CNNMoney 19,297 1,024 1784%. CNN 19,175 945 1929%. CBS News 18,883 1,182 1498%. USA Today 16,179 1,874 763%. MSNBC 15,219 1,573 868%. 1 Time 962 964.

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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. were most (and least) popular? Happy New Year.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 1, 2009

The major engines all produce some form of hot topic/trend list, and several third-party and social media sites do as well. You can also use keyword and reputation monitoring tools, real-time search tools and popular/meme lists for articles, tweets, social media submissions, etc.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

13 Yahoo News 3,779.8 The AOL News hostrank figure seems strangely low but I doubled checked it and that’s what Blekko is reporting: Side note: when I compared news sites on social media engagement there was a question about which domain was used for MSNBC. The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites.

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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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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 14, 2012

Yahoo News Syndication: Attribution Links Not SEO-Friendly. A high volume of links from Pinterest to a diverse mix of pages creates plenty of opportunity for exposure, engagement and traffic. Related posts: Pinterest: Great Opportunity for Lifestyle Publishers and Brands. Pinterest Traffic to Magazine Sites Up 141% But Figures Still Modest.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Do People Search for “Breaking News”? And if I want to get an overview of the current news of the day I’ll go to Google News or Yahoo! Breaking news” is featured in the title tags of sites covering sports, entertainment and a wide range of topics.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Do People Search for “Breaking News”? And if I want to get an overview of the current news of the day I’ll go to Google News or Yahoo! Breaking news” is featured in the title tags of sites covering sports, entertainment and a wide range of topics.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 20, 2009

Google News Optimization Tips Google JavaScript Changes Put Publishers in Violation of Sponsored Link Guidelines Yahoo News Syndication: Attribution Links Not SEO-Friendly Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

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Adam Sherk

MAY 13, 2009

Related posts: Yahoo Adds Enhanced News Results to SearchMonkey Google Social Search: Are You in Your Target Audiences’ Social Circles? Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

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Adam Sherk

MAY 22, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? Adam is part of the Define Search Strategies consulting team, which is owned by The New York Times Company.

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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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Adam Sherk

MAY 15, 2009

What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? Adam is part of the Define Search Strategies consulting team, which is owned by The New York Times Company. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 8, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Wrap, Newser and Content Aggregation: How Much Attribution is Enough? Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

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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? First and foremost is the ability to create official profiles and automatically submit content, which publishers are hoping will turn Digg into a friendlier place for mainstream media.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 30, 2009

Related posts: Yahoo News Syndication: Attribution Links Not SEO-Friendly Will Publishers Add Cross-Domain Rel=Canonical to Syndication Deals? Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? for more information.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 17, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Which News Sites Have the Most Valuable Facebook Pages? by Adam Sherk on May 17, 2010 Maintaining a Facebook Page is now a fundamental part of most news organizations’ social media presence. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Will Publishers Add Cross-Domain Rel=Canonical to Syndication Deals? Though it is important to note that Yahoo and Bing are not yet supporting rel=&# canonical&# across domains, so this solution only applies to Google.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Here are the news brands ranked by total followers: Instagram Profile Followers Photos Following. 1 NBC News 316,012 666 159. 2 TIME 275,415 438 63. 3 NPR 239,435 294 437. 4 CNN iReport 233,731 519 5,931. 5 Wired 113,209 790 65. 6 The Huffington Post 88,951 119 57. 7 The Wall Street Journal 77,360 357 63. 8 Washington Post 66,969 167 391.

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