Twist Image

APRIL 4, 2012

Blogs are one of the most valuable marketing tools ever created. I have an amazing team at Twist Image that did all design and infrastructure, but the content is all me (including the updating of the Blogroll). digital marketing services. marketing agency. I believe that. I don't just say it. everything. It's visceral.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

by Adam Sherk on February 23, 2010 There is an interesting article in BusinessWeek on how AOL is utilizing software and analytics data in an effort to match content with user interests and monetize it more successfully. Are you sure you want to write that article, Dave? Is this a good thing? Done right, I say absolutely.

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Akamai Marketing

MARCH 9, 2009

Share and Enjoy: Tags: event marketing , events No Comments Start the ball rolling by posting a comment on this article! Share and Enjoy: Tags: event marketing , events No Comments Start the ball rolling by posting a comment on this article! What’s your social currency?

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 18, 2011

A Better Blogroll If you like highlighting other bloggers on your site via a blogroll, you will probably find that as you add more and more to them, it becomes a huuge list. Try the Better Blogroll plugin. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. Read All About It!

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Akamai Marketing

MARCH 31, 2011

Share and Enjoy: Tags: customer service , social media , suggestions No Comments Start the ball rolling by posting a comment on this article! I’ve always advised my clients that its better to have people complain in an open forum where it can be addressed. I’ll be tweeting the best responses. What’s your social currency?

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Akamai Marketing

APRIL 4, 2011

Stop thinking like a marketer/business owner/blogger- extraordinare for a moment, and pause. Lurkers turn the tables a bit on marketers. Share and Enjoy: Tags: small business , social media , strategy No Comments Start the ball rolling by posting a comment on this article! 640 Million on Facebook. Million users on YouTube.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Article Ranking Factors within a Story Cluster While there are a wide range of ranking factors these four were highlighted: Fresh and New – Priority is given to articles that are recent, substantial, original and focused on the topic. a lot of subsequent articles linking to a particular source or referencing it within editorial text).

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Adam Sherk

MAY 22, 2009

In addition, don’t hyperlink the headline on the article page – after all, your reader is already there! In addition, don’t hyperlink the headline on the article page – after all, your reader is already there! Using the exact article title in the anchor text of links doesn’t always happen either.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 24, 2010

Perhaps the other sites have fresher related articles, but between free agent news and a “30 for 30” documentary debuting today ESPN does have current content for the query. 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

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Metro will provide Foursquare with location-specific editorial content such as reviews, tips and articles on points of interest. With content in the NYT Article Archive dating back to 1851, there is a world of fascinating stories that could be shared. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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Akamai Marketing

MARCH 23, 2011

By encouraging businesses to start out with their focus and strategy and then move through to the other elements, the authors Dover and Moffit support what so many marketers know, but what so many companies ignore in their rush to create a program. I particularly appreciated the process of the FLIRT model. What’s your social currency?

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 13, 2010

To take the comparison a step further, I also ran Page Speed on the top 10 sites’ lead article. Article Source Page Speed Score (article) 1 Yahoo! News moved it to the top of the group for articles and knocked Guardian.co.uk Both news.yahoo.com and its lead article at the moment got scores of 83.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2010

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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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

by Adam Sherk on December 1, 2009 In November Google announced a new format for Google News Sitemaps with several changes including new tags that provide additional detail on each submitted article. The fourth new tag is the tag, which allows publishers to specify the title of each article.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 6, 2010

Some visitors are likely clicking through to the full articles on Newsweek.com and then commenting there and/or sharing the newsweek.com URLs, which is also a good thing. 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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Akamai Marketing

JUNE 28, 2009

Oscar Meyer’s stunt is perhaps the oldest and longest running mobile marketing campaign in the country. Kraft is smart about their event marketing campaign, its integrates nicely with their website , they have a blog and them seem to focus on cities in the DMA 50-100 range. Put it in perspective.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 9, 2009

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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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Data like this is interesting to check out, and it can provide useful insights for marketers and content producers in getting a better understanding of user interest and activities in both search and social media. What sections, special features, individual articles, etc. were most (and least) popular? Happy New Year.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme. One aspect that CNN might want to rethink is the inclusion of “Total Comments” for each news item.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But at this early stage, how strong are the marketing opportunities for news sites? Sharing and discussing content is a key component of Google Buzz, so it’s a natural fit for article promotion and audience development. Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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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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Akamai Marketing

MARCH 24, 2011

Then you could ask them “ where should we have a social media presence? &# Give every employee’s voice equal weight, no matter if they are your VP of marketing or the janitor. Could be anything, a business article, a picture of your dog. The idea holds water, or soda or a Belvedere vodka if your like me.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2009

For news sites, the publication date and a photo can be added to Yahoo search results for articles and opinion pieces, as shown in this example: To take advantage of the enhanced news results, publishers can either use RDFa markup to embed the news data in their content, or use a NewsML feed to send the data privately to Yahoo.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 8, 2009

xid=rss or ?cid=top-stories) An article can be linked from as many sections and locations on the site as desired, but it should only exist on one unique, permanent URL. But when the search engines encounter the same article on multiple sites it is likely that one version will be given prominence, and it may not always be the original.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 30, 2009

Related posts: A Look at Muck Rack’s Twitter Press Release Service, 51 Releases Later The Most Overused Buzzwords and Marketing Speak in Press Releases Where Do You Want Your Social Media Press Releases to Live? Great article! Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 26, 2010

The Like button does appear on their article template: But at least on my computer it was a little slow to load, and once loaded it added some extra white space before the start of the editorial text. This ReadWriteWeb article is a good resource: Facebook Open Graph: The Definitive Guide For Publishers, Users and Competitors.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 4, 2010

Some additional notes: 1) It is not clear yet how well using an RSS feed to automatically submit articles is working. It will be interesting to see if sites that auto-submit in volume will end up drowning out the select articles from their site each day that have a better chance of attracting diggs.

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Akamai Marketing

MARCH 9, 2009

Maybe travel and tourism will will be the next segment to utilize the power of event marketing. Share and Enjoy: Tags: event marketing , Hawaii No Comments Start the ball rolling by posting a comment on this article! P.S. The bus is already onto it’s next adventure: a NASCAR driver is using it.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 23, 2010

PR, social media, and news articles I’ve found interesting, for example. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. Shannon Pauls Very Official Blog Spin Sucks TopRank Online Marketing Blog Writing Boots - David Murray Love WUL? And yes, I still talk about food.

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 5, 2013

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 26, 2010

According to Digg’s search tool 1,549 Colts articles have been submitted, with only eight being promoted to the front page and three receiving more than 500 diggs. That compares with 1,645 articles submitted, 11 promoted and two with 500+ diggs for the Saints. Advantage: SAINTS …At the half, the Saints head into the locker room ahead.

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Saying It Social

MAY 1, 2010

Fortunately, with a little strategic planning and implementation of some very helpful tools, you can accomplish your social networking/social media marketing tasks for the day in a very short amount of time. Blogs lend so many benefits to a social media marketing program that they really can’t be overlooked.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 13, 2010

The client is thrilled, you’ve won the praise and envy of your colleagues, all is well…except that online the article is behind a paywall so hardly anyone will ever see it. There is a lot of discussion these days about paywalls, metered models, paytags for individual articles and the like.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 1, 2009

You can also use keyword and reputation monitoring tools, real-time search tools and popular/meme lists for articles, tweets, social media submissions, etc. 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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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 24, 2008

This article reviews what we webloggers already know, and shares some ideas worth further exploration. Other interested webloggers could subscribe (via RSS) to such channels and could ping them whenever they write something that relates to the topic at hand that they wish to share with the community of subscribers. 4:17:27 PM.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 7, 2009

While the variations are limitless, the main opportunities include: Content Broadcasting – this is essentially RSS feeds on Twitter, used for simply pushing out links to new content. 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 30, 2009

On newspaper and magazine sites, the main culprit is typically the practice of appending tracking codes to the end of URLs, for example: www.yoursite.com/article ?xid=rss xid=rss (or ?xid=topstories Sitemap | RSS | © 2009-present AdamSherk.com Using Thesis Wordpress Theme. xid=topstories or ?cid=partner cid=partner , etc…).

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