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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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Yahoo News Syndication: Attribution Links Not SEO-Friendly

Adam Sherk

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.

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Videos in Press Releases are Cool – When They Provide Meaningful.

Adam Sherk

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. Do the videos add value or are they more executive fluff?

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News Sites Not Making Much Use of Static FBML on Facebook Pages

Adam Sherk

The Economist The Economist has multiple customized tabs for subscription, featured articles and a news quiz: Fox News Fox News offers a more visual and interactive experience through its “Fun Stuff” tab: Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune uses a welcome tab to highlight sections and features from its main site: Yahoo!

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25 Major News Sites Ranked By Page Speed

Adam Sherk

UPDATE: After Mike’s comment below I added Yahoo! Article Source Page Speed Score (article) 1 Yahoo! UPDATE: Adding Yahoo! Yahoo Adds Enhanced News Results to SearchMonkey { 3 comments… read them below or add one } Mike April 13, 2010 at 11:16 pm Any reason you’re ignoring the leader of the pack?

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The Most Popular News Sites on YouTube

Adam Sherk

News organizations want to drive video impressions to their own sites but since YouTube dominates the online video world they need to have a presence there. So I thought I’d investigate how well news sites are doing at building channel subscribers and video views. 2) I also did not find a channel for Yahoo!

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Link Building Tactics for Publishers

Adam Sherk

Syndication deals are another popular form of partnership, as publishers syndicate content on other news sites, or in the case of evergreen content, portals like Yahoo! In some cases like Yahoo, the links within syndicated content are nofollow (and they often point to Yahoo tracking URLs with 302 redirects) and thus do not pass SEO value.