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  • Category: Public Relations
    • Not a Bad Gimmick: The World's Highest Press Release
    • Great Design for an Email Press Release
    • The Best Free (or Cheap) Tools for Blogger and Influencer Outreach
    • Startups Use Micro-PR Campaigns to Tip Momentum in Their Favor
    • Harlem Globetrotters Press Release: Not Sure Why I Got It, But I Kind of Like It
    • Media Relations Gone Wrong: How Not to Pitch a Journalist (Video)
    • Press Release Optimization Checklist and Tips
    • Email Press Release Optimization Circa 1999
    • How Much is a PR Professional Worth to a Startup?
    • Better than Great: A Cure for Buzzwords and Marketing Speak
    • Social Media News Releases Get 3x More Media Coverage
    • PRFilter Shows Press Release Buzzword Abuse Still Prevalent
    • Fewer PR Organizations Plan to Increase Focus on SEO and Social Media in 2011
    • Press Releases Do Get Shared on Google News
    • Paywalls, Media Coverage and User Access: What’s a PR Pro to Do?
    • The Most Overused Buzzwords and Marketing Speak in Press Releases
    • Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About Reliability of Information
    • Social Media Dominates 2010 PR Planning, But SEO Increasingly in the Mix
    • A Look at Muck Rack’s Twitter Press Release Service, 51 Releases Later
    • Pro PR Tips: 100 PR Tips from Rafe Needleman Published as a Book
    • Videos in Press Releases are Cool - If They Provide Meaningful Content
    • Where Do You Want Your Social Media Press Releases to Live?
  • Category: Publishing
    • Mobile Visits Account for 40% of All Traffic for Publishers
    • How Much Search and Social Media Traffic Do Publishers Get?
    • My Top Posts of 2013 on SEO and Social Media for Publishers
    • Interesting Magazine and Digital Stats from Pew State of the News Media 2013
    • My Top Posts of 2012 on Inbound Marketing and Audience Development
    • Social Sharing: The New Coffee Table Magazine Spread
    • An Ode to Blog Comment Spam
    • Fox News Has Highest Customer Satisfaction Rating Among News Sites - By Far
    • SEO and Social Media for Publishers: A Low-Rent Infographic
    • My Top Posts of 2011 on SEO, PR and Social Media for Publishers
    • Hey, I Got the Lead Sentence in a Spammy Scraper Article
    • The Huffington Post's Kim Kardashian Tag-o-Rama
    • My Top Posts of 2010 on SEO, PR and Social Media for News and Sports
    • Translation and Localization Tips for Publishers
    • Which News Sites Have the Highest Reading Level According to Google?
    • 7 Conversion Rate Optimization Tips for Publishers
    • Wordcatcher: An Odyssey into the World of Weird and Wonderful Words
    • What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?
    • Pew Research News Survey: Findings on Search Engines, Social Networks and Twitter
    • Why the News Business Isn’t Profitable
    • Borrowing Content Was Happening Long Before Blogging
    • The Wrap, Newser and Content Aggregation: How Much Attribution is Enough?
    • Video Interview: Rupert Murdoch Doesn't Like Search So Much
    • AOL Newsroom: A Model for the Future or Shades of 2001?
    • 10 Quotes on the Apple iPad and the Business of News
    • Top 10 Reasons The New York Times is Really Putting up a Paywall
    • Help Haiti: News Sites Promote Ways to Donate
    • PEJ Study Shows Print Still Primary Source of Original News Reporting
    • Hearst Skiff Reader Looks Cool
    • My Top 10 Posts of 2009 on News Media, SEO and Social Media
    • Google Living Stories – Just Snazzy Topic Pages or is Google onto Something?
    • I Hope News Corp Does Block its Content from Google
    • NewsPulse Gives CNN.com a New Way to Showcase Popular Content
    • Smart Move from Condé Nast: GQ and DETAILS Should Have Their Own Websites
    • The Daily Show Visits The New York Times
    • So Far so Good for Seattlepi.com
    • Hitwise Reports News and Media's Share of Search-Referred Traffic Declining
    • New York Times Plans to Implement Permanent Redirects on IHT.com URLs
  • Category: SEO
    • 8 Critical SEO and Digital Marketing Opportunities for Publishers
    • How Much Google News Traffic Do Publishers Get? Here’s Data on 80 News Sites.
    • 10 Things That Expose Good Sites to Google Panda
    • The Best Tools for Keyword Research, Competitive Analysis and Trending Topics
    • Take Advantage of Additional Google News Opportunities for Publishers
    • Success with the Google News Standout Tag: A 90-Day Study
    • Google News Tip for Google+ Embedded Posts
    • The Google News Standout Tag: Does it Work?
    • 25 Random Observations about #MozCon Speakers
    • A Simple Workflow for Keyword Research for Content Planning
    • Top Link Building Tactics for Publishers
    • SEO Tips for Infinite Scrolling
    • SEO Guidelines for Sponsored Content and Partner Links
    • Has Search Interest in Celebrity Gossip Peaked?
    • A Year in the Life of 14 Million 301 Redirects
    • The Most Common Google News Errors and How to Avoid Them
    • Google News news_keywords Meta Tag: More Cons than Pros?
    • What Famous TV Catchphrases Can Teach You About Enterprise SEO
    • 5 Ways that Social Media Impacts SEO
    • Yahoo! Search Data (@YahooSearchData) a Good Source of Trending Topics for Lifestyle Publishers
    • SEO Metrics for Publishers: How are You Tracking and Measuring Success?
    • The Fastest and Slowest News Sites in 2012
    • Does Google Freshness Update Make Online Reputation Management More Difficult?
    • Google News Not Always So Great at Favoring Original Sources
    • Google Expanded Sitelinks: Optimize Opening Text in META Description Tag
    • Which News Sites Have the Most Keywords in Common with eHow?
    • Google Page Speed Ratings One Year Later: News Sites Range from Up 27% to Down 73%
    • eHow and Mahalo: How Many Keyword Variations is Too Many?
    • Google Trends Graphs No Longer Embedded in Search Results?
    • Editorial SEO Tactics for the Newsroom
    • Should Browsers Display Only Canonical URLs to Users?
    • The Top News Sites on Blekko
    • Search Trend Optimization for Evergreen Content
    • Do Google’s Expanded Domain Results Apply to News and Video Listings?
    • 25 Major News Sites Ranked by Page Speed
    • Real-time Search Optimization for News Sites
    • Blog Tag Optimization Tips for News Sites
    • 20+ Major News Sites Ranked by Domain Authority
    • Search Marketing Dwarfs Social Media in Interactive Marketing Budgets
    • Will Publishers Add Cross-Domain Rel=Canonical to Syndication Deals?
    • Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers?
    • The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites
    • Free Tools for Monitoring Hot Search Trends
    • Google News Optimization Tips
    • Yahoo Adds Enhanced News Results to SearchMonkey
    • 5 Ways to Deal with Seasonal Dips in Search Engine Traffic
    • Google News Now Recrawling Updated Articles
    • Great Example of a Multimedia News Article from ESPN.com
    • Article Highlights: Good for Users, Good for Search Engines
    • Yahoo News Syndication: Attribution Links Not SEO-Friendly
    • Syndication Best Practices: Reduce the Risk of Being Outranked for Your Own Content
    • Do People Search for “Breaking News”?
    • Google JavaScript Changes Put Publishers in Violation of Sponsored Link Guidelines
    • Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines?
    • Rich Snippets: Increase Google Visibility for Reviews through Microformats
    • Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with Rel=Canonical
  • Category: Social Media
    • The Best Social Media Analytics Tools for Publishers
    • 29% of the Top 500 Google+ Pages are News and Content Sites
    • The Most Popular and Active News Brands on Instagram
    • StumbleUpon Traffic to Magazine and Content Sites Down 27%
    • Google+ Engagement for News Sites: Top Performers and One-Year Growth Rates
    • Hey Sports Teams Quit Telling Me to LIKE your Facebook Posts
    • Survey: Pinterest a Great Source of Links for Publishers. What Types of Sites Get the Most Links?
    • Look at That, a Google+ Audience That is Largely Female
    • Local TV News Teams Having Fun with Pinterest
    • MLB Teams on Twitter and Facebook: Two-Year Growth Rates
    • Pinterest Traffic to Magazine Sites Up 141% But Figures Still Modest
    • Pew Study: Facebook Users Get 70% of News Links from Friends and Family, Not News Orgs
    • 8 Social Media Questions Publishers Should Be Asking Themselves
    • 5 Good Ideas for News Media Facebook Pages
    • StumbleUpon Channels: Which Media Brands Are Doing Well?
    • The Best Free Tools for Twitter Analytics
    • Publisher Survey: Reddit Traffic Way Up, Digg Way Down
    • News Organizations on Google+: Which Pages Get the Most Engagement?
    • Beyond Facebook Insights: Useful Facebook Analytics Tools
    • Pinterest: Great Opportunity for Lifestyle Publishers and Brands
    • Journalists on Facebook: Official Pages or Subscribe Button on Regular Profiles?
    • The Washington Post Social Reader on Facebook: Good First Impression, Good User Experience
    • Official Publisher Profiles on Digg One Year Later: Followers up 720% But Have They Died on the Vine?
    • Will Media Outlets Keep Using Google+ Personal Accounts? Will Google Let Them?
    • Is LinkedIn the New Old Boys Network?
    • The Most Popular Summer Blockbuster Movies in Social Media
    • 2011 NBA Playoffs: Head-to-Head Twitter Matchups by Klout Score
    • Grateful Dead Facebook Page: Great Use of Interactive Content
    • Can Publishers Harvest Social Media Intent in a Meaningful Way?
    • Is Using Facebook Comments Good for Publishers?
    • Super Bowl XLV: Packers and Steelers Battle it Out on Twitter
    • Which NBA Teams Have Seen the Most Growth on Twitter and Facebook?
    • 10 Practical Twitter Tips for Publishers
    • More Content Shared on Facebook but Twitter Click-through Rate Much Higher
    • Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?
    • The Most Popular NFL Teams on Twitter and Facebook: 2010 Season
    • The Most Popular News Sites on YouTube
    • JVC Facebook Page Sweepstakes a Big Success. But Does it Violate Facebook Guidelines?
    • NBC Targets Local Markets on the New Digg
    • News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers?
    • News Sites on Twitter: Who is Making the Most Impact?
    • News Sites Not Making Much Use of Static FBML on Facebook Pages
    • Which News Sites Have the Most Valuable Facebook Pages?
    • NBA Playoff Teams Ranked by Facebook Page Engagement
    • An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News Sites
    • The Most Popular MLB Teams on Twitter and Facebook
    • Does Google Want Brands in Your Social Circle?
    • Survey: Twitter Less than 1% of Traffic to Newspapers and Magazines; Facebook 1%
    • Make the Most of Your Retweet Buttons
    • Google Buzz and News Sites: Good Potential But Facebook Still the Better Play
    • Foursquare and The New York Times Archive Would Be a Great Match
    • Does Social Media Increase a Journalist’s Value?
    • Social Media Super Bowl: Which Team Has More Reach?
    • Alicia Keys Facebook Page: I’d Sign Up if She Asked Me All Cool
    • The Most Popular NBA Teams on Twitter and Facebook
    • Newsweek on Tumblr: Good Effort, Needs More Engagement
    • How to Identify Your Own Top Trends
    • The Most Popular NFL Teams on Twitter and Facebook
    • Fortune 100 Need to Get More Creative with Twitter
    • An Early Look at News Media Twitter Lists: Not Much Traction
    • Google Social Search: Are You in Your Target Audiences’ Social Circles?
    • Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage of Site Traffic
    • A Closer Look at Fan Engagement on The Fox News Facebook Page
    • Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get The Most Engagement?
    • Diversified Twitter Strategies for News Sites
    • The Most Buried News Sites on Digg
    • Twitter Suggested Users – Today’s Studio 54 Velvet Rope
    • Your Mom’s Coming to Facebook But She May Not Stick Around
    • Newsweek's Tim Geithner Interview Live on Facebook: Don't Forget to Link to the Video Afterwards
    • Newsweek Cares about (some of) your Tweets. Fox News Not so Much.
    • Corporate Social Media Marketing is about Two-Way Communication

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Adam Sherk is an SEO and PR consultant helping publishers with digital strategy and audience development, including enterprise SEO, public relations and social media marketing.

Adam is VP SEO and Digital Strategy for Define Media Group.

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  • 8 Critical SEO and Digital Marketing Opportunities for Publishers
  • How Much Google News Traffic Do Publishers Get? Here’s Data on 80 News Sites.
  • 10 Things That Expose Good Sites to Google Panda
  • Mobile Visits Account for 40% of All Traffic for Publishers
  • The Best Tools for Keyword Research, Competitive Analysis and Trending Topics

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  • SEO Guidelines for Sponsored Content and Partner Links
  • 8 Social Media Questions Publishers Should Be Asking Themselves
  • Top Link Building Tactics for Publishers
  • The Best Free (or Cheap) Tools for Blogger and Influencer Outreach
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  • Beyond Facebook Insights: Useful Facebook Analytics Tools
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