Adam Sherk

JANUARY 9, 2013

Which news sites get the most engagement on their Google+ pages? As with my previous comparison, I used All my + to pull data on +1′s, shares and comments for every post on the official Google+ pages of a selection of news sites. 47 New York Magazine 1.54 45 New York Magazine 912 191 221 1,324. 28 PBS NewsHour 17.83

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

While on The Huffington Post yesterday I couldn’t help but notice the large number of tags they’d added to a couple posts on the Kim Kardashian photo in W Magazine, and the terms being targeted. The Huffington Post is a strong enough domain and brand to overcome the SEO and usability issues, but not every site is.

Sports 118

Sports SEO News Issues 118

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 14, 2010

I saw Malcolm Coles’ post on Google’s reading level scores for UK newspapers and thought it would be fun to do the same thing for US news sites. So what reading level does Google assign to major news sites in the US? How do the US news sites stack up? But which sites are aiming high or low? ABC News 41%. Boston.com 29%.

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Sites News Google Yahoo 232

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? by Adam Sherk on October 6, 2010 It is safe to say that most news sites are now experimenting with various forms of user engagement and content promotion through social media. on their site).

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get the Most Engagement? by Adam Sherk on September 17, 2009 Now that the improved Facebook Pages have been around for a while I wanted to check the level of engagement that major news sites are achieving with them.

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Sites News Engagement Facebook 238

Adam Sherk

APRIL 24, 2012

It has been a couple years now since page speed has been an official Google ranking factor and one year since the launch of PageSpeed Online , the Web-based version of Google’s tool for analyzing site performance. So I thought I’d check in on the PageSpeed scores for a selection of major news sites. April 2012. Average 83.

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Sites News Yahoo Comparison 187

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. So which news sites fared best?

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 14, 2012

What types of sites get the most links from Pinterest? I spend a lot of time auditing websites which means I am regularly in the Google Webmaster Tools profiles for a variety of sites. Lately I’ve been noticing some impressive Pinterest link counts in the linking domains report under “Links to Your Sites.”

Survey 166

Survey Sites Publishing NoFollow 166

Idaconcpts

JUNE 1, 2011

Then go over this site and have your private tour of some of the places listed by Unesco as the World Heritage List. This is a brilliant site to browse through as the images are just stunning and makes you feel that you are actually there walking. This site offers gigapixel images uploaded from around the world. 360 Cities.

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Sites Travel List Project 128

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. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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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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Sites News Yahoo Engineering 143

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.

Sites 112

Sites News Press Release SEO 112

Ari Herzog

MAY 21, 2010

This new site will be designed to appeal to the highly valuable 25-49 year-old audience, and enable the Msnbc Digital Network to offer consumers another compelling site in its collection of innovative and powerful news brands. Wonderwall features a horizontal scroll, mimicking a traditional magazine. Time will tell.

Microsoft 70

Microsoft Journal Collaboration Hosting 70

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

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

But I was curious to compare the data provided for major news sites. For the purposes of comparison I pulled the hostrank, inbound links and site pages data for 30+ major news sites. In the table below the news sites are ranked by hostrank. Hostrank Inbound links Site pages. 1 BBC News 7,660.6 5,841,700 1,642,485.

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Sites News Postrank SEO 112

SocMed Sean

JANUARY 20, 2022

Once upon a time, women shared recipes with index cards that came out of little wooden boxes, young girls and women created collages and vision boards to visualize their future goals and dreams, and we all got our fashion and travel advice and ideas from magazines. Time Magazine named Pinterest in its “50 Best Websites” list by 2012.

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Fashion iPhone Travel Posterous 130

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? At a minimum news sites should set up an official profile and experiment with “buzz this” buttons on their templates. Facebook itself is making a push to get users to create personalized news channels that benefit both users and news sites.

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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

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

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites by Adam Sherk on October 8, 2009 Although search engines keep improving on their ability to deal with duplicate content, this continues to be one of the main SEO issues facing news and content sites.

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Sites News Syndication Content 105

Dave Fleet

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Tweet Situation: When food writer Monica Gaudio discovered that Cooks Source magazine had lifted an article she’d written and printed it in the magazine, she emailed the magazine to inquire about how it had come about. When the editor of the magazine asked what she wanted, Gaudio told the.

Public Domain 375

Public Domain Issues How To Policies 375

The Realtime Report

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Nails Magazine’s Pinterest Campaign Doubles Referrals From Social Sites : Nails Magazine saw the potential in Pinterest as a visual marketing tool and went about building their presence on the site in just the right way.

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Campaign Social Media Case Study Study 168

Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 8, 2014

In this case, if you look at what I post on my blog and what I post on my Facebook page, you’ll notice that it’s really is a lot like you’ll find on Website Magazine, Search Engine Journal, and Search Marketing Expo. That is exactly what I want. And I’m happy to see that Facebook finally got it right.

Content 91

Content Sites Journal Social Media 91

Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 11, 2013

To expand your online footprint within your market, think about three types of sites where you want a presence: Social media sites: these include social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn), social content sharing sites (YouTube, Flickr, SlideShare) and social bookmarking sites (Reddit, StumbleUpon, Diigo).

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Social Bookmarking StumbleUpon Engineering Sites 198

Sherrilynne Starkie

MARCH 28, 2013

Usually we grab a pad of sticky-notes, scribble a reminder and put it on the desk, the fridge or the relevant page of a magazine. That's the promise from social networking web site LinkedIn with its revamped search capabilities. What I “Love” About Social Media Sites. Smarter search. Related articles.

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Social Media Curation LinkedIn Notification 302

Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

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. These are all sites that we currently work with so I’m going to keep the titles anonymous. Here’s a breakdown by percentile. Less than 20% 0.

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Mobile Publishing Hitwise Patterns 164

Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

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. Here are the averages for the year, according to each site’s Referrer Types report in Omniture: Search 37.8%. Other Web Sites 22.3%. Publishing'

Publishing 198

Publishing Hitwise Social Media Analysis 198

Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Weekly news magazines are declining, newspapers are shriveling, and industry trade magazines are downsizing. to topic-focused niche sites such as (using social media as an example) Social Media Today and Social Media Informer. The site also makes it easy to promote your newspaper through Twitter and Facebook.

Aggregator 187

Aggregator Paper.li B2B Content 187

Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

To be clear, a large part of any Facebook strategy focuses on newsfeed visibility and on-site promotion through tactics like EdgeRank optimization, frictionless sharing , like and subscribe buttons , Open Graph tags, Facebook Comments and other Facebook Social Plugins. Related posts: Which News Sites Have the Most Valuable Facebook Pages?

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News Facebook Case Study Conference 199

SocialFish

MARCH 9, 2011

Taking the place of their magazine website, it houses archived and current issues, beefing up community content and helping with SEO. They partnered with a media company that owns another site in their niche, PlowSite.com. They publish the magazine together but manage their websites separately. “We

Case Study 180

Case Study Study Communities Joomla 180

Atom Thought

APRIL 16, 2011

Some time back I wrote an article in The CTOForum Magazine about how social media is impacting the next generation enterprises. India Strategy for Social Networking Sites! How businesses are lapping up social media? How Social Media is changing brand communication paradigm The Great Indian Digital Elections!

Social Media 207

Social Media Meeting Social Networking Research 207

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 25, 2012

So I pulled the 2009-2011 Reddit and Digg referral figures for selection of 12 major magazine and Web-only content sites. I’m not able to reveal the specific sites or figures due to confidentially requirements but they are all well established brands. The numbers represent visits, not pageviews.

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Digg Reddit Survey Publishing 149

The Way of the Web

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Essentially it’s a curated selection of the top links voted to the top of Hacker News – which itself has long been a favourite user-voted site of mine. and the organic growth of the site means that it sticks pretty closely to that, rather than slipping into trivial shock links (as happened to Digg a lot over the years).

Crowdsourcing 30

Crowdsourcing Curation Digg Flickr 30

Hootsuite

JANUARY 18, 2024

Are you interested in driving traffic to your ecommerce site, building engagement , or fostering community ? A magazine targeting senior citizens, on the other hand, would be wasting its time posting on youth-oriented TikTok … while cool-girl makeup brand Glossier is right at home on the platform.

Social Media 121

Social Media Tips HootSuite Marketing 121

Dave Fleet

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

This new mechanism, PC Magazine tells us , will only be shown if Facebook detects unusual activity on your account (for example, logging in in one place then logging in a thousand miles away shortly thereafter). Facebook is experimenting with enhancing security around user accounts through a socially-enabled login process.

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Facebook Process Activities Sites 296