Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites: Tame Your Blog Tags by Adam Sherk on February 19, 2010 Ever notice all the tags that some blogs add to their posts? To be clear, I’m not saying that blog tags have no SEO purpose or value. Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers?

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Sites News Press Release SEO 112

Ari Herzog

MARCH 10, 2011

The following is a guest blog article by Chris Apple. I don’t know about you, but as a real estate blogger, I tend to read a lot of blogs during my workday. Some of the blogs I read on any given day range in topics from SEO blogs , real estate blogs , social media blogs , and blogs about blogging.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 10, 2011

The following is a guest blog article by Chris Apple. I don’t know about you, but as a real estate blogger, I tend to read a lot of blogs during my workday. Some of the blogs I read on any given day range in topics from SEO blogs , real estate blogs , social media blogs , and blogs about blogging.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 21, 2012

So if you are really, really pressed for time, then I honestly don’t know of a better one-stop-management-shop for the primary social networks than HootSuite (and I’m more than happy to be educated, so if you do, please leave a comment below!). You can syndicate your blog posts to Facebook via your RSS feed.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Syndication. Syndicating content is a common practice and an important revenue stream for publishers. My post on syndication best practices covers ways to reduce the risk of being outranked for your own content. From a SEO perspective, the best approach is to avoid this practice altogether.

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The Way of the Web

AUGUST 3, 2012

It’s particularly worrying in some areas, where companies of the size and scale of Google have effectively closed out the market, particularly in terms of RSS syndication with Feedburner and RSS reading with Google Reader. Trust in Google? What’s happening to Feedburner?

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Some news sites are supplementing content links with direct questions and comments to users, but this does not appear to be happening in any significant volume. To judge user engagement and activity, I also calculated the average number of “likes” and comments that the last 10 updates/links to each page received. NPR 489,413 513.5

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 4, 2010

Also I’ve only been blogging here for about six months, so I’m still building up momentum. Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? The Most Popular NFL Teams on Twitter and Facebook Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 29, 2009

A limited number of listings will appear at the bottom of the main search result pages, or users can drill down to see more extensive listings: Currently a social circle is determined by the social media accounts linked from a user’s Google Profile , the feeds they subscribe to in Google Reader and their Google chat and Gmail contacts.

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Google Google Reader Press Release Survey 109

Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Adam Sherk February 26, 2010 at 9:46 am On a different note, the irony is not lost on me that my post on retweet buttons has gotten hardly any retweets Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? Thanks for sharing.

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Syndication URL Press Release SEO 117

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Search Marketing Dwarfs Social Media in Interactive Marketing Budgets Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Vocus SEO Social Media Press Release 166

Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! 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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Survey Social Networking Engineering Research 140

Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

After reviewing several days’ worth of activity, I have to say that nearly anything Fox News posts to its page ends up getting a decent amount of likes and comments from fans. Even more mundane news items still manage to spark a round of commenting. Which News Sites Have the Most Valuable Facebook Pages?

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News Engagement Facebook Press Release 104

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 19, 2010

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! 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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Press Release Facebook Syndication Blogroll 138

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

What were your top referrers/trends in Web search, news search, image search, blog search and video search? What generated the most “likes” and comments on your Facebook Page? 7 comments… read them below or add one } David Mathison December 22, 2009 at 1:46 pm Great points Adam, thanks for sharing! Best to you.

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Trends How To Digg Press Release 167

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2009

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

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Yahoo News Syndication Press Release 101

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 6, 2010

In looking through the site though one thing stands out – nearly every item has no comments or reactions: That seems odd, but it’s not just a holiday season slowdown. I went back several months and it’s not easy to find items that have gotten comments. I didn’t find any shared newsweek.tumblr.com URLs through Bit.ly

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Tumblr Engagement Press Release Syndication 131

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

All Comments (1). Comments on Slide 1. Add a comment. « Next » All comments. Add a comment on Slide 1. If you have a SlideShare account, login to comment; else you can comment as a guest. Just include the embed code in the comment! 1 comment |. Embed in your blog.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! 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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Twitter Press Release Syndication Blogroll 145

Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Will Publishers Add Cross-Domain Rel=Canonical to Syndication Deals? Do Google’s Expanded Domain Results Apply to News and Video Listings? { 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.

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Sites News Syndication Digg 118

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 20, 2009

Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers? Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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News Google Syndication Press Release 101

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 27, 2009

One aspect that CNN might want to rethink is the inclusion of “Total Comments” for each news item. The Most Popular News Sites on YouTube Google Living Stories – Just Snazzy Topic Pages or is Google onto Something? How “popularity” is determined is not specifically defined, but it is likely a simple metric like page views.

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Content Press Release Digg Survey 112

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 24, 2010

Related posts: Great Example of a Multimedia News Article from ESPN.com Rich Snippets: Increase Google Visibility for Reviews through Microformats 20+ Major News Sites Ranked by Domain Authority Will Publishers Add Cross-Domain Rel=Canonical to Syndication Deals? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2010

I have seen plenty of blog posts and conference presentations on how to utilize Static FBML but I rarely see news sites highlighted among the examples of good usage. 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

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Blog content does get some extra exposure however. When a user clicks on the “all X news articles” link at the bottom of a story cluster, Blogs is the second section on the full coverage page: Two other new tags in Google News Sitemaps are and. Related posts: Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines?

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News Publishing Google Press Release 104

Adam Sherk

MAY 22, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines? 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

JANUARY 11, 2010

Google News Optimization Tips A Look at Muck Rack’s Twitter Press Release Service, 51 Releases Later Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 7, 2010

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! 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

MARCH 24, 2010

I follow a number of different news sites (and other companies) on Twitter, Facebook and other social media, and each of those accounts is linked on my Google Profile. I’m also subscribed to 368 feeds in Google Reader including a wide range of blogs and news sites. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 8, 2010

It is on page one for “Wall Street Journal news summaries” and page two for “Wall Street Journal summaries” but according to the Google Keyword Tool neither of those phrases has any search volume: UPDATE: Here’s the video of the “discussion&# between Sharon Waxman and Michael Wolff on CNN’s Reliable Sources (April 11, 2010).

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Aggregator Content Syndication Journal 110

Adam Sherk

APRIL 30, 2009

Related posts: The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites Will Publishers Add Cross-Domain Rel=Canonical to Syndication Deals? Syndication Best Practices: Reduce the Risk of Being Outranked for Your Own Content Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers?

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 17, 2009

3 comments… read them below or add one } Jeff Lancaster - Outrider December 17, 2009 at 3:02 pm It is indeed interesting to see that search is holding its own. Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? Thank you for keeping us informed.

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Social Media Marketing Press Release Survey 123

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 1, 2009

2 comments… read them below or add one } Gary Gregory October 9, 2009 at 4:51 pm Thank you for the list! I personally found that Google Trends tends to be a little more sensationalistic than the others. I’ve primarily stuck to aggregated trend/topic lists to keep the list manageable.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 12, 2009

Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? 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

JANUARY 26, 2010

1st Quarter: Blog mentions Two days after the conference championships, which team is being blogged about more? Google Blog Search has 519,933 total results for “Indianapolis Colts” and 20,776 in the past week. But from what I can see, and I searched with both Facebook and Google, the Saints do not have an official page.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Don’t break up the article body – Articles should have sequential paragraphs; don’t break them up with user comments or links to related posts. Real-time Search Optimization for News Sites Google Living Stories – Just Snazzy Topic Pages or is Google onto Something? Adam Sherk August 9, 2010 at 8:42 am Thanks Amit.

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News Google Tips Press Release 158

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 21, 2010

Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage of Site Traffic My Top 10 Posts of 2009 on News Media, SEO and Social Media Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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