Articles by: David Arkin


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April 21, 2025
Here are 5 ideas your newsroom can use for Mother’s Day content
With Mother’s Day around the corner, now is the perfect time to make sure you have a content strategy in place that will engage and help your audience have a great time celebrating Mom. Here are five things to do...
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April 11, 2025
Here’s why you should be making LinkedIn a priority
Often when we are visiting with a publisher about their social media strategy, questions about LinkedIn inevitably come up. • Should our news organization be active on LinkedIn?• Should our staff be on it talking about/promoting coverage?• Do we need...
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April 5, 2025
Here are the best tips and metrics for branded content
After you have run a branded content campaign for a few weeks, what information are you sharing with an advertiser? And most importantly, are they the right metrics? I’m going to spend some time in today’s newsletter going through the...
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April 5, 2025
Web traffic dropping? Use this SEO checklist
Why is my web traffic dropping? This is the most common question I get from publishers: Why is my traffic dropping and what can I do about it? It’s a multitude of things and reasons that are leading to drops...
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April 5, 2025
Best measles content and revenue ideas
With more than 250 confirmed cases of measles across several states as of March 2025, many of your readers may very well be wondering what to know and do. This isn’t a widespread infection at this point that’s impacting millions,...
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April 5, 2025
Here’s how to boost your reader engagement in April
Easter, spring break and Earth Day offer big reader engagement opportunities April is such a fun time of the year for families: The temperatures finally start to feel a little more spring like, flowers start to bloom and there are...
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April 5, 2025
How Lunch & Learns help educate advertisers and drive revenue
I recently had the opportunity to help host a Lunch & Learn on branded content for a room of 20 advertisers. It went so well, we’re already talking about doing it again in two months. Lunch & Learns are great...
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April 5, 2025
Here are the most creative e-edition strategies
There’s so much opportunity with e-editions Are e-editions still popular and important for media companies to offer? The answer is a hard yes but getting beyond just putting an interactive PDF out to your audience matters today. E-editions work because...
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March 17, 2025
David Arkin Consulting joins Local Media Consortium’s Digital on Demand Services to provide content, audience and revenue solutions
David Arkin Consulting has been selected to be part of the Local Media Consortium’s (LMC) Digital on Demand Services (DODS) program, offering media organizations a suite of services designed to enhance digital strategy, audience growth, branded content, revenue generation and...
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February 6, 2025
Newsletters, video and lists: Unique sponsorship ideas that work for publishers
There are some very interesting sponsorship opportunities media companies can offer brands that go way beyond ads on section fronts and logos on newsletters. You can offer advertisers the opportunity to be around content they love, share their message in...
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February 6, 2025
Here are 3 creative branded content ideas any publisher could create
The best branded content is always the most creative stuff. Those are the stories that the audience wasn’t expecting but were happily surprised with and the angles that never crossed an advertiser’s mind. I like to call these stories the...
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February 6, 2025
How this unique coaching program taught a reporter the digital skills she needs for the future
What does it mean for a reporter to be “digital?” For The Albuquerque Journal’s Nakayla McClelland, it meant perfecting a host of new skillets that helped her think about the reader first, reach a wider audience and utilize the most...
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January 18, 2025
This is why your news organization should be prioritizing social media search
I know I have spent a lot of time talking about the importance of Google and SEO but in 2025 you should be shifting some of that attention to search on social media. Why? Because it’s exploding, especially with younger...
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January 18, 2025
Here’s a guide to the technical tools you need to have in your newsroom
Your mind is likely shifting to next year at this point, daydreaming a bit about all of the opportunities and possibilities that are before you. I will write a newsletter at the start of 2025 with some thoughts on the...
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January 18, 2025
Why publishers should focus on hyper local content and avoid general and generic content
There’s been this interesting debate for years about some content not being local but still being relevant. The idea was that readers would still find value in content around things like recipes or parenting advice or home and garden tips,...
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January 18, 2025
6 programs David Arkin Consulting offers that can help increase your revenue and audience
Over the last two years running our consulting business, we’ve gained unique insight into what publishers need the most help with when it comes to operating successful and profitable businesses. And we’ve tried to create services that support those needs....
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November 18, 2024
David Arkin Consulting chosen as content consulting partner for Hyperlocal News Network
Hyperlocal News Network, a new publishing platform for media companies, announced today that it now offers content consulting thanks to a new partnership with David Arkin Consulting.  The two companies will collaborate to help local news platforms maximize their revenue through...
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November 4, 2024
Beyond page views: Building reader loyalty and engagement with content
Page views are becoming less and less of the sought-after metric as more organizations prioritize content that converts readers to subscribers and members and centers on engagement. It’s a path that should be well received, not only from readers but...
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November 4, 2024
Word count doesn’t matter to Google. But being helpful does.
I am not sure how it even started, but for years, many editorial and content marketing writers were fully convinced that length was a major factor in SEO. And the word counts that writers thought they needed to hit were...
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November 4, 2024
Top Instagram tips for publishers: grow your audience and boost engagement
Instagram continues to be a powerful platform for publishers to grow their audience and ultimately their revenue, but are you doing all of the right things today? Instagram does have tools to drive traffic to your website that are definitely...
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November 4, 2024
Top AI tools editorial teams should use to save time and enhance content
Ever work on something and think to yourself that there just has to be a better and more efficient way to do the work? We probably have all been there in the past, but thanks to AI there are actually...
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November 3, 2024
Search traffic dropping? Focus on these 3 things
While speaking recently at two industry conferences questions about SEO were flying from a variety of publishers, both small and large. t’s not that shocking, actually. Google’s latest helpful update in August wrecked some serious havoc on many publishers’ search...
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October 28, 2024
Brandi Calhoun, a content and editing specialist, joins David Arkin Consulting
Brandi Calhoun, a content specialist who has written for a variety of niche publications, community newspapers and edited for the country’s largest news organization, has joined David Arkin Consulting as a content strategist. Calhoun joined Arkin’s growing consulting company in...
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October 18, 2024
David Arkin Consulting to offer premier content services to New York Press Association Members
The New York Press Association and David Arkin Consulting have formed a strategic partnership to provide top-tier digital content and audience consulting services to NYPA members. As NYPA’s digital content and audience consultant, Arkin will offer a range of services...
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September 26, 2024
How to make sure readers will find your Fall content
🎃 Best pumpkin patches 🍂 Free fall activities for kids 🥧 Where to get holiday pies These are searches that readers in your community are — and will be doing — over the next few months. Will your content be...