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How Time Magazine Gained 1.2 Million Google+ Followers

The Realtime Report

Time magazine has become one of the most popular news brands on Google+, with over 1.2 Cathy Sharick, managing editor of Time.com, shared some tips for achieving success on Google+, as reported by Journalism.co.uk. In addition, Time is taking advantage of several features unique to Google+, including circles and hangouts.

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StumbleUpon Traffic to Magazine and Content Sites Down 27%

Adam Sherk

To get a better sense of the situation I pulled StumbleUpon referral figures from 2010-2012 for a group of 47 news and content sites that we work with at Define Media Group , primarily magazine brands. Is the dominance of Facebook and Twitter, coupled with increasing Google+ engagement , proving to be too much?

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Google+ Engagement for News Sites: Top Performers and One-Year Growth Rates

Adam Sherk

Which news sites get the most engagement on their Google+ pages? It’s been a year since I took an early look at engagement rates for news organizations on Google+ , so I thought I’d revisit the topic and do a fresh comparison. So I also compiled the total engagement counts for all of the Google+ pages. 4 TIME 109.73

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29% of the Top 500 Google+ Pages are News and Content Sites

Adam Sherk

Whenever I do a presentation on Google+ for publishers I mention that quite a few news and content brands are among the most followed pages. The point being that Google+ does indeed offer good opportunities for audience development, engagement and content promotion. The Most Followed News and Content Sites on Google+.

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Two New Google Developments

Small Business Mavericks

Google, as always, is branching out. They’ve add an Events tab to the social network Google+. Again, that doesn’t sound like much, but this is a popular feature on Facebook and the fact that Google+ is adding the feature means that they are serious about competing in the social arena. Google’s New Tablet.

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How Much Google News Traffic Do Publishers Get? Here’s Data on 80 News Sites.

Adam Sherk

Google News has been in the news itself lately, from European efforts to impose taxes to questions about its value and even suggestions for giving it a full redesign. The figures include traffic directly from Google News and well as traffic from embedded news oneboxes in the regular Web search results. Jan-Nov 2014) Percentage of.

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How Google Finds and Penalizes Advertorials

Bill Hartzer

No website owner wants to log into Google Webmaster Tools and see an unnatural link warning from Google. From what I am seeing, many of these unnatural link warnings and manual penalties from Google are a result of having participated in advertorials. How Google Identifies Advertorials. First, a little background.

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