Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites Not Making Much Use of Static FBML on Facebook Pages by Adam Sherk on June 9, 2010 Between privacy issues, a sweaty CEO and technical problems with its “Like&# buttons Facebook is having a rough time lately. The short answer? Not so many.

News 181

News Sites Yahoo Facebook 181

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? Adding a few meaningful tags is fine, but news sites in particular have a habit of taking this practice much too far.

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Sites News Press Release SEO 112

Adam Sherk

MARCH 16, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Real-time Search Optimization for News Sites by Adam Sherk on March 16, 2010 The major search engines are making real-time search a priority, resulting in good visibility opportunities for news sites especially for breaking news.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 15, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites on Twitter: Who is Making the Most Impact? But Twitter, Facebook in some cases Digg still represent the majority of social media referrals to many news sites, so they continue to be a priority. 2,461,060 2 @cnnbrk 77.3% 3,139,883 3 @TIME 76.9%

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News Sites Twitter Digg 165

Adam Sherk

JULY 23, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Buried News Sites on Digg by Adam Sherk on July 23, 2009 It’s no secret that mainstream news sites are experiencing increased exposure on social news sites like Digg. Using di66.net’s 403 14 dailymail.co.uk 387 15 telegraph.co.uk

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Digg Sites News Yahoo 119

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 14, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Help Haiti: News Sites Promote Ways to Donate by Adam Sherk on January 14, 2010 As the devastation and human tragedy caused by the Haiti earthquake grows, people are flocking to the news media for information, and more importantly to learn ways that they can help.

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News Sites Digg Press Release 129

Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But at this early stage, how strong are the marketing opportunities for news sites? But at this early stage, how strong are the marketing opportunities for news sites? At a minimum news sites should set up an official profile and experiment with “buzz this” buttons on their templates.

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Sites News Google Facebook 118

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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Sites News Strategy Twitter 105

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Search Marketing Dwarfs Social Media in Interactive Marketing Budgets by Adam Sherk on December 17, 2009 This week both Brian Solis and SEOMoz made reference to a recent Forrester report forecasting US interactive marketing budgets for the next five years.

Social Media 123

Social Media Marketing Press Release Survey 123

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 11, 2010

In my post on news sites on the new Digg I noted that NBC has created a series of city-specific profiles to target local markets. Lauren: The ten profiles are a joint effort between myself and the social media lead in each of the 10 markets. Q: Is all content from the sites being automatically submitted or just select stories?

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Digg Marketing News Press Release 166

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 4, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers? Do they want to follow and interact with specific media sites? They also made 29 comments; that’s a very low number but most of the other sites have not made any.

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Digg Sites News Activities 134

Adam Sherk

APRIL 14, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Corporate Social Media Marketing is about Two-Way Communication by Adam Sherk on April 14, 2009 It’s a simple concept, but one that many companies are still struggling with in terms of practical implementation. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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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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Syndication URL Press Release SEO 117

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? 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? 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

Social Media 19% of the public regularly (7%) or sometimes (12%) get news or news headlines through social networking sites. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! Only 3% regularly or sometimes gets news from Twitter.

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Survey Social Networking Engineering Research 140

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2009

SearchMonkey allows sites to use structured data to include additional information in their Yahoo search results such as addresses and phone numbers, review scores, pricing, etc. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

Yahoo 101

Yahoo News Syndication Press Release 101

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 24, 2010

by Adam Sherk on August 24, 2010 As first covered by Malcolm Coles and later confirmed by Google , for search queries that include a specific domain Google is now showing a larger number of results from that site on page one. But do the expanded results apply to the embedded news and video listings in the SERPs?

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News List Google Embedding 113

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

JANUARY 6, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Newsweek on Tumblr: Good Effort, Needs More Engagement by Adam Sherk on January 6, 2010 Awareness of Newsweek’s Tumblr site has been increasing of late. That’s critical for giving the site stand-alone value as opposed to just being a feeder site to Newsweek.com.

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Tumblr Engagement Press Release Syndication 131

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 4, 2010

So belatedly here are my 10 most popular posts of 2009, by pageviews: Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get the Most Engagement? The Most Popular NFL Teams on Twitter and Facebook Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? Here’s wishing everyone an interesting and productive 2010.

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SEO News Social Media Syndication 101

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 11, 2010

So companies can increase the likelihood of their press releases being used by bloggers and local news sources by giving them a more news-like tone and dialing down the marketing hype. 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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Study News Press Release Report 147

Adam Sherk

MAY 12, 2010

Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the Canonical URL Tag So Far so Good for Seattlepi.com 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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Content Aggregator Press Release Syndication 116

Adam Sherk

APRIL 30, 2009

Every piece of content on your site should exist on one permanent, unique URL, and any duplicate pages should be consolidated through 301 redirects. 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 ?

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Issues Publishing URL Syndication 100

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. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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News Google Syndication Press Release 101

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. But while you’re going through this year’s top trends, don’t forget to apply the same practice to your own sites.

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Trends How To Digg Press Release 167

Adam Sherk

MAY 22, 2009

Due to space limitations and to try to grab on-site users’ attention, news sites sometimes use shorter and/or wittier “tout links&# on home pages, section fronts and in popular content modules. Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines?

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News Google Syndication Press Release 100

Adam Sherk

APRIL 8, 2010

To me the real question is: when one site aggregates another’s content, how much attribution is enough? Why not just send a DMCA complaint to the web host and get the site taken down? Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

Aggregator 110

Aggregator Content Syndication Journal 110

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.

Press Release 101

Press Release Syndication Blogroll iPad 101

Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Which News Sites Have the Most Valuable Facebook Pages? Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? So I thought I’d take a closer look at what Fox News is doing on its Facebook Page , as well as some engagement examples.

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News Engagement Facebook Press Release 104

Adam Sherk

MAY 19, 2009

So total natural search engine referral traffic is a more important measuring stick than what percentage of site traffic comes from natural search. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

Hitwise 100

Hitwise News Report Press Release 100

Adam Sherk

MAY 19, 2009

So total natural search engine referral traffic is a more important measuring stick than what percentage of site traffic comes from natural search. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

Hitwise 100

Hitwise News Report Press Release 100

Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

by Adam Sherk on June 9, 2009 Among news sites “breaking news” is a sought-after keyword phrase; I see it prominently placed in home page title tags all the time: And it’s not just general news sites. Breaking news” is featured in the title tags of sites covering sports, entertainment and a wide range of topics.

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News Hitwise Press Release Syndication 100

Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

by Adam Sherk on June 9, 2009 Among news sites “breaking news” is a sought-after keyword phrase; I see it prominently placed in home page title tags all the time: And it’s not just general news sites. Breaking news” is featured in the title tags of sites covering sports, entertainment and a wide range of topics.

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News Hitwise Press Release Syndication 100

Adam Sherk

JULY 28, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Article Highlights: Good for Users, Good for Search Engines by Adam Sherk on July 28, 2009 Yesterday Steve Rubel pointed out how the article highlights on sites like CNN.com and iMedia Connection are a good time saver for him.

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Engineering Press Release Survey Syndication 100

Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

What else can news sites do with Foursquare and other forms of location-based social media? While different from my archive idea, this is a great example of location-based opportunities for news sites. 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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Foursquare Badge Press Release Syndication 111

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! What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

Press Release 100

Press Release Syndication Blogroll Foursquare 100

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 27, 2009

CNN.com is soliciting user feedback by including a prominent survey link at the top of the page: It will be interesting to see how NewsPulse changes user behavior on the site over time. It has the potential to increase the number of stories read per visit, resulting in more page views and time on site.

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Content Press Release Digg Survey 112