Adam Sherk

AUGUST 28, 2012

Maybe I’ll do a quick study in a future post or perhaps someone like PageLever or EdgeRank Checker has good data on this. So at a minimum the “LIKE” begging isn’t turning users off and maybe it is even helping to increase engagement. Here are some more recent examples.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 23, 2009

First, a study of 33 million unique users from Chitika’s network in September showed that visitors coming from Facebook and Digg were more loyal than those coming from the three major search engines and Twitter.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Another thing worth noting from the study is that email still dominates content sharing though it is starting to lose ground: Related posts: The Most Popular NFL Teams on Twitter and Facebook: 2010 Season. But the sheer volume of Facebook sharing means that total referrals from Facebook shares are still higher for many publishers.

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 19, 2012

One last thought on the Pew study: hey social, search still owns you! A diversified social strategy incorporates a wide range of methods for growing audience and making meaningful connections with users. Thus through social media news organizations offer not only news and information but also community and even entertainment.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Related posts: PEJ Study Shows Print Still Primary Source of Original News Reporting. It’s a great read and I enjoyed Cousineau’s introduction almost as much as the book itself because it paints a vivid picture of how he became fascinated with words. Why the News Business Isn’t Profitable. Do People Search for “Breaking News”?

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Recently NPR shared a case study on Nieman Journalism Lab showing how they used geotargeting on their Facebook page to specifically target users in one local market, Seattle. I’ve gathered together some examples that I’ve come across lately or have had exposure to in the past.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 23, 2013

Or put together a case study with several news sites to come up with a percentage on how often the using the standout tag generated a “Featured” label, and what kind of traffic it drove? Unfortunately I didn’t have the time to do either of those things, which would certainly have made this a more interesting and data-driven post!

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About Reliability of Information Survey: Twitter Less than 1% of Traffic to Newspapers and Magazines; Facebook 1% Search Marketing Dwarfs Social Media in Interactive Marketing Budgets PEJ Study Shows Print Still Primary Source of Original News Reporting Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) (..)

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Life is better with buckets of water and confetti: 2) To prove the point that blogs sometimes do publish press releases verbatim, as I referenced in a post about a PEJ study on original news reporting a couple years ago. So here is the complete press release.

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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.

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 8, 2012

By studying things like pageviews, time on site and click paths publishers can gain insights and attempt to create optimized experiences for social visitors. Are we creating optimized experiences for social media visitors?

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Adam Sherk

JULY 15, 2013

I enjoyed how he walked through the methodology and findings of the 2013 Ranking Factors study with curiosity, and without claiming to know for sure what it all means (as that’s not how it works). Matt Peters – You can tell “Dr. Matt” gets a lot of respect from the Moz team, and it seems well deserved.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

I’d actually like to see this happen…it would make for an interesting case study demonstrating that the only one hurt by such a deal is News Corp itself. It would also be interesting to see how Microsoft addresses the financial realities of trying to extend such an arrangement to a larger group of publishers.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 30, 2009

There is some more information and basic case studies in this conference session summary from last week: [link] 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

JULY 22, 2009

I did it above but I didn’t really want to.

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 16, 2010

I had difficulty keeping up just to grab screenshots for this post (fortunately both Google and Bing have a “pause” button) The engines are still in a testing and experimentation phase, so real-time is not being strongly promoted yet and many users are not even aware it exists A recent eye tracking study from Oneupweb showed that user engagement with (..)

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

I keep coming across things like the Simply Measured study showing that 59% of top brands are now active on Instagram and the news that Instagram has surpassed 100 million active users. Now that Instagram web profiles have been around for a few months I thought I’d check in on the participation and activity of major news brands.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

According to a new study by Weber Shandwick, when it comes to the Fortune 100 the answer is not so well.

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Twitter Press Release Syndication Blogroll 145

Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Did you pick these news sites based on visitors to each or, did you just pick out news sites that you like and read to include into this study. { 3 comments… read them below or add one } Nick Stamoulis February 3, 2010 at 7:12 am This is a very interesting list and seems accurate. Adam Sherk February 3, 2010 at 12:06 pm Thanks Nick.

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