Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Will Publishers Add Cross-Domain Rel=Canonical to Syndication Deals? In the Q&A in Google’s announcement, one question in particular caught my eye: Q: I’m offering my content / product descriptions for syndication.

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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. So how well do major news sites perform in these areas?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 11, 2018

If you work in the world of marketing, the Cambridge Analytica news didn’t exactly shock you. It’s not that marketers’ support the misuse of data—especially for the purposes of spreading false or “less accurate” information to sway an election. T Cambridge Analytica news, therefore, hit us less as an, “OMG!”

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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.

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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? by Adam Sherk on June 15, 2010 I have done several posts on news organizations and Facebook recently so I thought it was time to switch things up and look at Twitter again. 2,461,060 2 @cnnbrk 77.3% and 78.5%.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 11, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk PEJ Study Shows Print Still Primary Source of Original News Reporting by Adam Sherk on January 11, 2010 The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released a study today of the modern news ecosystem, examining a week of news activity in Baltimore, MD.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Balancing activities across owned, earned, shared and paid media strategies is the best way to get a demonstrable return on investment (ROI) for today’s marketing and communications campaigns. This is the integrated digital media and marketing communications framework I use with my clients, no matter the challenge.

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Writtent Blog

JUNE 20, 2013

Every content marketer has a dream of penning a piece that will earn the same mass exposure as the uber-viral Gangam Style music video. A relatively little-known option for your marketing strategy is to syndicate content , which carries many of the benefits of guest posting without the attached labor. What is Syndication?

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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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 2, 2011

It gives you a good sense of how far your message traveled on Twitter — I get that this isn’t always the best metric, but if you have breaking news, it’s nice to be able to equate how far and fast news traveled on Twitter in a way that most executives recognize: number of tweets, top twitterers and impressions!

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 26, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News Sites by Adam Sherk on April 26, 2010 There has been a lot of news and reaction around Facebook’s new additions to the Facebook Platform: Social Plugins, the Open Graph protocol and the Graph API.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 11, 2010

Will it work with local news? 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. NBC is trying to find out.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk 20+ Major News Sites Ranked by Domain Authority by Adam Sherk on February 1, 2010 When it comes to competing for search engine visibility, major news organizations tend to benefit from having strong, trusted domains. But just how strong are those domains?

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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

MAY 14, 2013

When it comes to link building publishers have a significant advantage because editorial content, be it hard news or evergreen content, lends itself naturally to linking and sharing. In addition producing quality content on a daily basis creates a steady stream of new opportunities. Smart syndication. Shine or MSN Living.

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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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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. Related posts: News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers?

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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. Nice roundup.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 20, 2009

This is encouraging news for publishers as previously once an article was indexed in Google News no changes or updates to it would be registered. So if an article was accidently published with a typo in the headline and then corrected, Google News would still display the erroneous headline.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Yahoo Adds Enhanced News Results to SearchMonkey by Adam Sherk on August 31, 2009 On Friday Yahoo announced new additions to its SearchMonkey enhanced results, including options for news content. Not sure what SearchMonkey is? Not sure what SearchMonkey is?

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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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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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yMarketingMatters

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

But it can get very time consuming each day to search for new information relating to your keywords or areas of interest. Tools like Google Alerts and Yahoo Alerts monitor the web for you and alert you, by email or through RSS news feeds (see below), every time a new piece of information relating to your keywords is posted to the web.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers? by Adam Sherk on December 1, 2009 In November Google announced a new format for Google News Sitemaps with several changes including new tags that provide additional detail on each submitted article.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 22, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines? So it appears this tip is intended to make it easier for Google News to understand the correct title for articles, as opposed to being a “must do&# to prevent an issue.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 24, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Do Google’s Expanded Domain Results Apply to News and Video Listings? But do the expanded results apply to the embedded news and video listings in the SERPs? So a handful of examples from one individual does not make for a comprehensive sampling.

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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

JUNE 9, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Do People Search for “Breaking News”? 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.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Do People Search for “Breaking News”? 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.

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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.

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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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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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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 14, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Great Example of a Multimedia News Article from ESPN.com by Adam Sherk on August 14, 2009 Recently I wrote about the importance of including meaningful content in videos embedded in press releases. So far Google seems to agree.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 4, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk My Top 10 Posts of 2009 on News Media, SEO and Social Media by Adam Sherk on January 4, 2010 I was going to post this last week but then opted wisely for letting myself enjoy a holiday break. Here’s wishing everyone an interesting and productive 2010.

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 9, 2011

Is this a game changer in how brands market themselves with technology? When none of the sessions at a recent nonprofit conference dealt with the two social networking sites, how crucial is their involvement in social marketing today? Syndicating FourSquare to Twitter. The social networking icons are not flashed on the screen.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

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. After reviewing several days’ worth of activity, I have to say that nearly anything Fox News posts to its page ends up getting a decent amount of likes and comments from fans.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

I’d actually like to see this happen…it would make for an interesting case study demonstrating that the only one hurt by such a deal is News Corp itself. Believe it or not, being indexed in Google and Google News is actually good for news sites. – If You de-Index Will They Still Come? Google-less?

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