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You’re doing SEO wrong: it’s all about authority

Biznology

For example, I wrote the following in 2010: PageRank is designed to ensure that the most relevant, authoritative sites are listed at the top of search results. In the book I said you should be the Wikipedia of your most important topics. Most companies are not so lucky. Fortunately, there is a company that can do this for you.

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Social business, the forest and the garden: Your intranet is not the Internet

Biznology

Photo credit: Wikipedia. Altavista, Geocities, AOL, Google, Amazon, WordPress, eBay, Hotmail, Wikipedia, MySpace, Flickr, Delicious, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Quora, Pinterest all had their days of glory. In the meantime, this is what happened to Wikipedia: Wikipedia Growth – Source. Williams was published.

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How (and Why) to Map Your Company’s Digital Landscape

Webbiquity

With more than 90% of companies now using social media to find employees and 82% having a Facebook page , there’s no question that business use of social media has become commonplace. Other social activity and presence (Flickr, SlideShare, Wikipedia, etc.). But “use” and “success” are two different things.

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SEO: Are Nofollow Links Still Valuable?

Hubspot

Is it still valuable to get them when you can, such as from social media sites or Wikipedia? Under what circumstances do you pursue links from Wikipedia? Tom Critchlow works for the SEO Company Distilled as VP Operations NYC ( office opening in June! ) Under what circumstances can you pursue links from Wikipedia?

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Link Velocity: How to Use Link Velocity to Your Advantage in SEO

seo.co

Companies creating content exist in a competitive environment where every second counts: Links need to show up as quickly as possible after publishing. If you can naturally scale your link building , the faster the links appear, the better it is for companies looking to maximize traffic and visibility. Linking Out.

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High Points on the Social Media Landscape

WebMarketCentral

Social Networking Sites where you can post your profile, promote links to your company site / blog / etc., Site Alexa Rank (March 2009) Compete Traffic (February 2009) Compete 1-Year Traffic Change Google Pagerank Facebook 5 73,787,766 +159.0% Knol may lack Wikipedia's cachet, but it's a much friendlier place.

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How to Build Traffic Generating Links

Sharpspring

Many authoritative companies use the nofollow attribute so that when someone tries to place a link on the company website, they know it is for value and not for an SEO gain. Some companies will avoid these types of links because they don’t pass any PageRank, but the truth is that these links are still valuable.

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