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How Much Search and Social Media Traffic Do Publishers Get?

Adam Sherk

On average, what percentage of referral traffic to publishers comes from search, social media, links and direct navigation? To get an idea of where things currently stand, I pulled 2013 referral data for a selection of 52 magazine and content sites, all well-known brands from major publishers. Social Media 10.2%.

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Hitwise Reports News and Media's Share of Search-Referred Traffic.

Adam Sherk

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. 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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Hitwise Reports News and Media's Share of Search-Referred Traffic.

Adam Sherk

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. 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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A Simple Workflow for Keyword Research for Content Planning

Adam Sherk

Mining keyword research, analytics and competitive data to identify new evergreen content opportunities does not always get the attention it deserves from busy editorial teams, despite this being an area with considerable upside for publishers. Keyword Research for Content Planning. Step 7: Finalize your targets.

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Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage.

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage of Site Traffic by Adam Sherk on October 23, 2009 Yesterday posts from eMarketer and Marketing Pilgrim called my attention to some interesting social media statistics put out by advertising network Chitika.

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Mobile Visits Account for 40% of All Traffic for Publishers

Adam Sherk

I started with the sites surveyed in my post on search and social traffic and then added several more newspaper, magazine and content sites, for a total of 70 brands. Related posts: How Much Search and Social Media Traffic Do Publishers Get? The Daily Show Visits The New York Times. Publishing'

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Social Media’s effect on the UK riots should surprise no one.

Direct Marketing Observations

According to HitWise , Twitter accounted for 1 in every 170 UK Internet visits yesterday; by their estimates, there were over 3.4 WE are the media. We create the content, we share the content and we consume the content-CONSTANTLY. million visits to the Twitter homepage from the UK population alone.

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