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JUNE 21, 2012

It’s a terrific way to post to a number of social networks, schedule posts and listen in on what’s going on, either by creating dedicated searches or creating streams of Twitter lists you’ve set up. as much as I could, what I do find very useful, outside of the publisher, etc., This is for two reasons: a.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 15, 2010

I asked Christian to provide some tips for publishers looking to expand their presence in international markets. To reach an overseas readership online publishers must ensure that they properly localize their content. When you publish your online newspaper or magazine in other countries you need to be aware of cultural differences.

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Firebelly

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Courtney Love gets sued over tweets | Main | Cyber Monday Is Here! » November 24, 2009 Social Networking Meets Game Consoles There used to be a time where you could play video games for video games and use the computer for computer related things. What do you think?

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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? That may be getting carried away but the new format does have some advantages for publishers, although they are not being fully utilized by Google News yet.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 30, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the Canonical URL Tag by Adam Sherk on April 30, 2009 Really you shouldn’t need it. What you should be doing is avoiding duplicate content altogether.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 5, 2009

While it’s good news that Google is continuing to improve its ability to deal with JavaScript, this change also impacts the way that many publishers display sponsored links on their sites. Related posts: Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers? Will Publishers Add Cross-Domain Rel=Canonical to Syndication Deals?

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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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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.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 2, 2009

What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 11, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Pro PR Tips: 100 PR Tips from Rafe Needleman Published as a Book by Adam Sherk on August 11, 2009 Yesterday I received a copy of Rafe Needleman ’s Pro PR Tips in the mail from ITDatabase. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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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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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 11, 2010

This is particularly appealing for publishers with content that may be of interest to specific audiences as opposed to the wider Digg user base. Will it work with local news? NBC is trying to find out. 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.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google News Optimization Tips by Adam Sherk on September 3, 2009 This week Google put out a video to give publishers more information on how Google News works and how best to optimize for it. Creating textual descriptions and transcripts is helpful.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Fortune 100 Need to Get More Creative with Twitter by Adam Sherk on November 17, 2009 While many companies now have some form of presence on Twitter, how well are they utilizing it? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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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

JANUARY 19, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Alicia Keys Facebook Page: I’d Sign Up if She Asked Me All Cool by Adam Sherk on January 19, 2010 Want to use your Facebook Page to build out your mailing list? Alicia Keys knows how to do it. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk How to Identify Your Own Top Trends by Adam Sherk on December 22, 2009 Yesterday Facebook shared its Top Status Trends of 2009 , providing insight into what terms most commonly occurred in users’ status updates. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Social Media Marketing

MARCH 13, 2013

Weber Shandwick and KRC Research found that while women are highly active and influential on social media, many report having decreased or completely cut off usage of at least one social network in the past 6 months. It's been widely accepted that tweens and teens are flocking to Instagram as a social network of choice.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 21, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About Reliability of Information by Adam Sherk on January 21, 2010 Yesterday Cision released the results of their Social Media and Online Usage Study, a survey of social media usage by print and Web journalists.

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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. 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.

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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

MARCH 2, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Survey: Twitter Less than 1% of Traffic to Newspapers and Magazines; Facebook 1% by Adam Sherk on March 2, 2010 For my presentation on Twitter Marketing Tactics at SMX West this week I wanted to get a sense of just how much traffic Twitter is driving to major news sites.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Make the Most of Your Retweet Buttons by Adam Sherk on February 25, 2010 In working on my presentation for the Twitter Marketing Tactics session at SMX West next week I’ve been looking at the various types of share and retweet buttons used on news sites.

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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? This gives publishers the opportunity for greater exposure to users looking for content from their specific site (and who may not be familiar with the “site:” search operator).

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Webbiquity SMM

MAY 14, 2013

5 Tips to Becoming a Top Blog in Your Industry by Social Media Examiner. PR expert and author Gini Dietrich offers several excellent tips for expanding your reach by publishing guest posts on other influential blogs. How to Effectively Promote Your Blog Posts by MyBeak Social Media. ** 5 STARS. Futurity , TED and NPR ).

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Writtent Blog

MARCH 7, 2014

Make sure the post is optimized for search engines before you hit the publish button. Evergreen content” will continue to drive traffic to your website days and even years after a blog post has been published. For best practices in SEO check out 22-Point Blog Post Checklist: Before You Hit the Publish Button. Syndicate your RSS.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 1, 2009

A tactic that some news and content sites employ is monitoring Google’s Hot Trends list in an effort to identify hot topics and then quickly produce matching content around them. Does this work? Many search trends come and go quickly, so sites that cover a topic after its peak will likely miss out on the larger search engine visibility opportunity.

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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?

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Sprout Social

MARCH 4, 2021

Sprout Social. Sprout’s own social media publishing solution comes with robust content curation features to find relevant and engaging posts to share with your social media audience. The Find Content tool crawls through social media platforms to discover the most shared content across major social networks.

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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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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

d post an article I originally published 10 years ago in the October 1997 issue of Company Director magazine. Jun 24, 2008 — Australian Financial Review — Social networking comes of age, sort of. Syndication. Living Networks book (6). Social networks (69). Social trends (16).

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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

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? Publishers are desperately trying to come up with new business models and hopefully they’ll figure out a system that works. Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers?

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The usual caveats: Social media isn’t a popularity contest and reach does not equal influence, engagement or action These figures will quickly be out-of-date (they probably were before I could hit the “publish” button) But those things aside, it is interesting to take a snapshot at various times for the purposes of comparison.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 6, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Newsweek on Tumblr: Good Effort, Needs More Engagement by Adam Sherk on January 6, 2010 Awareness of Newsweek’s Tumblr site has been increasing of late. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 12, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular NBA Teams on Twitter and Facebook by Adam Sherk on January 12, 2010 NBA players, like many professional athletes, have taken social media by storm, but what about their teams? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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