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New York Times Plans to Implement Permanent Redirects on IHT.com urls

Adam Sherk

MAY 15, 2009

So the bottom line is, the NYT SEO team strongly advocated the use of permanent 301 redirects from all IHT.com URLs to the corresponding new URLs on NYTimes.com, and they are continuing to do what they can internally to get this implemented as soon as possible. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Make the Most of Your Retweet Buttons

Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

When users click a retweet button, they expect to see something along the lines of: RT @[brand] [headline] [URL] That exact format does not need to be followed, but you want to minimize the work that users need to do before sending out the tweet. Related posts: Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines?

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Newsweek on Tumblr: Good Effort, Needs More Engagement

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 6, 2010

I didn’t find any shared newsweek.tumblr.com URLs through Bit.ly I didn’t find any shared newsweek.tumblr.com URLs through Bit.ly 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.

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Borrowing Content Was Happening Long Before Blogging

Adam Sherk

MAY 12, 2010

Related posts: Video Interview: Rupert Murdoch Doesn’t Like Search So Much I Hope News Corp Does Block its Content from Google The Wrap, Newser and Content Aggregation: How Much Attribution is Enough? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the.

Adam Sherk

APRIL 30, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the Canonical URL Tag by Adam Sherk on April 30, 2009 Really you shouldn’t need it. Do you recommend inserting the canonical URL tag on every page of a site, or only those that exhibit tracking codes?

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Hearst Skiff Reader Looks Cool

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? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Foursquare and The New York Times Archive Would Be a Great Match

Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Related posts: New York Times Plans to Implement Permanent Redirects on IHT.com URLs Top 10 Reasons The New York Times is Really Putting up a Paywall The Daily Show Visits The New York Times Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines? Check out The New York Times page on Foursquare to see it in action.

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The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Even when the engines do a reasonable job of filtering out duplicates in their results, sites are essentially shooting themselves in the foot by splitting internal and inbound links to a particular piece of content across multiple URLs. Appending tracking codes to URLs (e.g. ?xid=rss xid=rss or ?cid=top-stories)

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The Daily Show Visits The New York Times

Adam Sherk

JUNE 12, 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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A Look at Muck Rack's Twitter Press Release Service, 51 Releases Later

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 20, 2009

URL, so I tried using bit.ly search to get click data on each of those shortened URLs. URLs in Muck Rack releases. reports from its search page are not very complete or accurate (you get better data on URLs you’ve personally shortened in your history when signed into bit.ly). Of those 51 releases, 28 included a bit.ly

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Yahoo News Syndication: Attribution Links Not SEO-Friendly

Adam Sherk

JULY 9, 2009

The Yahoo attribution links do not point directly to the original article URLs. Instead they point to an internal Yahoo News URL which then has a temporary 302 redirect to the original article. So it is important to have a requirement for direct links to your original URLs put into the syndication contract.

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Google News Optimization Tips

Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Three digit URLs are not required if you submit an XML news sitemap. 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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Google News Now Recrawling Updated Articles

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 20, 2009

Previously the only way to get the more comprehensive version into Google News was to republish the article on a new URL, which was not the best experience for either on-site or search engine users. I went looking for an updated story in Google News today and was able to find an example.

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Real-time Search Optimization for News Sites

Adam Sherk

MARCH 16, 2010

The fact that Bing identifies the source of any shortened URL helps credible news sources to stand out, particularly in the top links section where the domain for each link is referenced four times. Tracking data from URL shorteners like Bit.ly What are you doing to increase the real-time search visibility of your content?

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An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News.

Adam Sherk

APRIL 26, 2010

This Inside Facebook post has the details: With the Open Graph Protocol, Any URL Can Be Treated Just Like a Facebook Page Related posts: News Sites Not Making Much Use of Static FBML on Facebook Pages Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get the Most Engagement? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers?

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

However all newly submitted Google News Sitemaps must be in the new format. Related posts: 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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Top 10 Reasons The New York Times is Really Putting up a Paywall

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 20, 2010

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! UPDATE: For those interested in more actual information, NYTco. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Where Do You Want Your Social Media Press Releases to Live?

Adam Sherk

MAY 26, 2009

For example on The New York Times Company’s corporate site, press releases are hosted by Thomson Reuters on [link] URLs: Last year Todd Defren wrote that social media releases are best kept in your company newsroom for a variety of reasons. Specific to the SEO implications, I believe that is still the best approach.

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Syndication Best Practices: Reduce the Risk of Being Outranked for.

Adam Sherk

JUNE 30, 2009

their site name) on their versions In its tips for dealing with duplicate content , Google specifically refers to the attribution link but with a caveat: Syndicate carefully: If you syndicate your content on other sites, make sure they include a link back to the original article on each syndicated article.

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The Wrap, Newser and Content Aggregation: How Much Attribution is.

Adam Sherk

APRIL 8, 2010

It is one thing to occasionally aggregate stories from various sources that you think will be of interest to your readers. It has a toolbar PageRank score of 1, and at least in my Google results it is not in the top 50 for “Wall Street Journal.” What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Which News Sites Have the Most Valuable Facebook Pages?

Adam Sherk

MAY 17, 2010

CBS News and Reuters are the only two news organizations in the group that have not created a short, customized URL for their page (e.g. While on Facebook, the page URL shown to users in the browser changes radically depending on how it was navigated to. www.facebook.com/nytimes): That is a missed opportunity.

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Will Publishers Add Cross-Domain Rel=Canonical to Syndication Deals?

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? by Adam Sherk on December 16, 2009 Yesterday Google announced that it is now supporting the rel=&# canonical&# link element (sometimes referred to as the canonical URL tag) across different domains.

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Google Living Stories – Just Snazzy Topic Pages or is Google on to.

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 8, 2009

by Adam Sherk on December 8, 2009 Today Google unveiled its Living Stories prototype , showcasing its vision of a new format for presenting news stories online. Essentially the idea is that for ongoing stories news organizations would maintain a single, consistent “living” URL that is continually updated with the latest developments.

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What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 22, 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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New York Times Plans to Implement Permanent Redirects on IHT.com urls

Make the Most of Your Retweet Buttons

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Newsweek on Tumblr: Good Effort, Needs More Engagement

Borrowing Content Was Happening Long Before Blogging

Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the.

Hearst Skiff Reader Looks Cool

Foursquare and The New York Times Archive Would Be a Great Match

The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites

The Daily Show Visits The New York Times

A Look at Muck Rack's Twitter Press Release Service, 51 Releases Later

Yahoo News Syndication: Attribution Links Not SEO-Friendly

Google News Optimization Tips

Google News Now Recrawling Updated Articles

Real-time Search Optimization for News Sites

An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News.

Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers?

Top 10 Reasons The New York Times is Really Putting up a Paywall

Where Do You Want Your Social Media Press Releases to Live?

Syndication Best Practices: Reduce the Risk of Being Outranked for.

The Wrap, Newser and Content Aggregation: How Much Attribution is.

Which News Sites Have the Most Valuable Facebook Pages?

Will Publishers Add Cross-Domain Rel=Canonical to Syndication Deals?

Google Living Stories – Just Snazzy Topic Pages or is Google on to.

What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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