Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Google saga today, as the Financial Times reports that discussions have taken place between News Corp and Microsoft on an exclusive deal with Bing that would lead to News Corp blocking its news sites (such as The Wall Street Journal ) from Google. Believe it or not, being indexed in Google and Google News is actually good for news sites.

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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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Twist Image

JANUARY 18, 2017

In my first business book, Six Pixels of Separation (published in 2009), I put forward something that I had previously written about on my blog - and an idea that (still to this day) gets me excited about brands, consumers, technology and how marketing connects it all. It's true that social media is, typically, our best foot forward.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 13, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Paywalls, Media Coverage and User Access: What’s a PR Pro to Do? by Adam Sherk on July 13, 2010 Being the savvy, well-connected PR pro that you are, you just helped bring about a great piece of editorial coverage in a major media outlet.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 13, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk 25 Major News Sites Ranked by Page Speed by Adam Sherk on April 13, 2010 Now that site speed is officially a Google ranking factor, site performance and page load time are important for SEO as well as usability. 80 5 aolnews.com 77 guardian.co.uk

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Proactive Report

MAY 1, 2010

(And of course we were delighted that he chose a release about the Social Media Roadmap webinar series I did with Marketwire as his example.). News Releases. Looking back at the history of the press release one can see that the way we format a release to reach the media has changed as the media has changed.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 8, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Wrap, Newser and Content Aggregation: How Much Attribution is Enough? 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.” Add a Wrap homepage link to the source grid page.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 28, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk 10 Quotes on the Apple iPad and the Business of News by Adam Sherk on January 28, 2010 Now that the first wave in the Apple iPad crazy-a-thon has past, I thought I’d do a quick round-up of what people are saying about the iPad from the perspective of the news media.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk An Early Look at News Media Twitter Lists: Not Much Traction by Adam Sherk on November 3, 2009 With all the buzz about Twitter Lists I thought I’d take a look at how some major news sites are doing so far with their own Lists.

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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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Adam Sherk

APRIL 5, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular MLB Teams on Twitter and Facebook by Adam Sherk on April 5, 2010 A new baseball season is underway and we are in that wonderfully brief period when fans all over the country still believe this could actually be the year for their team.

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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? by Adam Sherk on August 4, 2010 The new Digg has gotten a lot of attention for the opportunities it creates for publishers (see ReadWriteWeb and BlueGlass for details).

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Jeff Esposito

AUGUST 22, 2011

There are two big areas where PR firms just won’t let go, and are screwing their clients in the process: media relations, press releases and connecting with the media. Some tickets to the game, a nice dinner, an expensive bottle and a good time were frequently provided to grease the wheels of journalism.

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Laurel Papworth

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

As the BBC tells it’s journos to start using social media as a primary source – or leave journalism – what are the repercussions in social spaces? I know of 3 other bloggers that have won traditional media awards for their work. Social Media: Short form long form continuous DIY (2).

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The Way of the Web

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

It will only get better, cheaper and more accessible to both legitimate publishers attempting to make their workflow more efficient, and to spammers and content farms who can finally do away completely with the human element. If you want to be a writer, you need to be using social media and tools like Google’s Author Markup today.

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Laurel Papworth

OCTOBER 22, 2011

No journalists, except a journalists that now work in social media and a few bloggers now paid to bring their audiences and expert knowledge to journalism (blogournalists?) e.g. my partner Gary Hayes being published in Wired and The Guardian. Why invite Bloggers to a News.com Press briefing? Seriously ?

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Communities Social Media Journal Diagrams 108

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

of articles on the topic of Internet Marketing, from SEO to social media to web usability and then some. The article has examples of how social media worked too. In it, he offers some thought-provoking insights into what must be understood before going into social media marketing.

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 21, 2014

. It’s no secret: social media marketing has a data problem. Despite a growing number of tools available to measure the ROI of social media, many of the claims made by “marketing gurus” in this sector come from the gut. Let’s take a look. Sales and Facebook, Only the Interactions Matter.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 27, 2011

I’m a social media expert as seen on.” By now, everyone is some kind of social media “expert.” Assume your press release is as fascinating as the State of the Union speech. I hate to break it to you, but your press release is not. Thank you for publishing this article. And that was it.

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Kikolani

MAY 23, 2012

Social media is bigger than we think. We all at least know there is an opportunity to reach customers in a different way through social, but not everybody truly grasps the kind of brand awareness, business opportunities and startup growth that can take place on these channels. The press releases were only the catalyst.

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The Way of the Web

JANUARY 27, 2011

1,100+ Youtube Views (This is all from press release videos, and is a somewhat painful process a lot of the time!). 204 Comments (Just under one comment per post isn’t too bad.). 46,831 Page Views (Could have been more with a little more focus on high traffic posts and promotion).

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Wikipedia Forums Press Release Flickr 42

ProBlogger

AUGUST 23, 2023

Each subsequent edition considered the evolution of blogging at the time they were published. The Evolution of Journals and Weblogs to Blogs Blogs also tend to have an informal, conversational writing style. This goes back to blogging’s roots as an early form of social media.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 6, 2015

In few professions has the emergence of social media been such a double-edged sword as public relations. On one hand, the “citizen journalism,” blogging, and content-sharing platforms for all types of media have fundamentally altered the traditional print-based business model of professional and trade publications.

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Writtent Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The Wall Street Journal recently named advertising and promotion management the “fastest disappearing” jobs in the US. Corporate and personal brands strive to get noticed on social media, sometimes regardless of the cost. Be Worthy of a Press Release. Concept should come first, and publishing is secondary.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 17, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Which News Sites Have the Most Valuable Facebook Pages? by Adam Sherk on May 17, 2010 Maintaining a Facebook Page is now a fundamental part of most news organizations’ social media presence. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 27, 2012

This is Episode 13 of the Social Pros Podcast : Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media. This episode features Ryon Harms , the head of social media for Farmers Insurance. Some people know you, many people on the podcast of course know you for your work in the social media research area.

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 12, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Video Interview: Rupert Murdoch Doesn’t Like Search So Much by Adam Sherk on March 12, 2010 News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch was on Fox Business yesterday talking about the business model for media content on the Internet.

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Writtent Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Every marketer with an internet collection gasped when Matt Cutts, Google’s head webspam fighter, published these words on his personal blog a little over a week ago. So, is it truly pointless to publish guest content? Is your company’s latest press release a guest blog if it gets picked up by a major publication?

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Press Release SEO Curation Publishing 74

Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

As the use of social media in marketing has become ubiquitous, marketers have turned their attention to making the use of business social media more sophisticated and strategic. How can marketers help their organizations move from “social media marketing” to “social business”?

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Statistics Social Media B2B Journal 229

Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Marketers, we’re told, need to think like publishers. How widespread, really, is the use of social media for marketing? How are B2B marketers using social media differently from their B2C counterparts? How are marketers measuring social media success? General Social Media Statistics.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Social Media Sites: General The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking: The Top 20 Sites (10e20): Chris Winfield ranks the top 20 social bookmarking sites by their Alexa rankings and gives a short description of what each does — in case you haven’t ventured beyond Digg. Maybe next year, folks! Become a del.icio.us

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Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

Here’s how I do it : I read and review hundreds — thousands — of articles yearly, on all Internet Marketing topics from SEO to social media to general entrepreneurship (new for 2010!), also gathering intelligence via their rankings on top social sites and by stumbling upon new items in my feed reader.

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Webbiquity SMM

APRIL 29, 2014

Given all of the changes Google has made affecting organic ranking factors (asking webmasters to disavow low-quality links, reducing the value of guest blogging , ignoring links in press releases , etc.), the practice of SEO—optimizing owned content for search—is no longer sufficient for maximizing a brand’s online visibility.

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Brands SEO Press Release Engineering 206

Adam Sherk

JUNE 29, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Overused Buzzwords and Marketing Speak in Press Releases by Adam Sherk on June 29, 2010 Unique, one-of-a-kind, best-of-breed…blah, blah, blah. And let’s be honest, we’ve all used it at one time or another — shame on us.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 15, 2010

You are here: ViperChill » Social Media » Six Figure Writing: My Journey from English Failure to Blogging Success Six Figure Writing: My Journey from English Failure to Blogging Success Written by Glen, this post has 69 Comments I hope that my old English teacher is reading this post. Home What the F ? Cloud Living Say "Hi!"

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Proactive Report

JANUARY 30, 2015

Our moderator was Jerry Swerling, Professor and Director of Public Relations Studies, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. This social media strategy template might be helpful when planning your content. And just a quick side note: The media knows good visuals work. So quite a line up.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 25, 2015

So as I sit here at my desk, day after day, journalizing content for brands to use across their digital storytelling channels, I can’t help but wonder about the legions of women in PR who came before me. Besides my own professional drive, desires and initiative, how did I “get here,” so to speak?

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