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

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PageRank is a number assigned to pages by Google that essentially tells us how important they are within the entire index. We’re all familiar with this concept because of browser toolbars that assign web pages a PR value, generally ranging from 0 to 10+ (for sites like Wikipedia). Linking Out.

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High Points on the Social Media Landscape

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Site Alexa Rank (March 2009) Compete Traffic (February 2009) Compete 1-Year Traffic Change Google Pagerank Facebook 5 73,787,766 +159.0% Site Alexa Rank (March 2009) Compete Traffic (February 2009) Compete 1-Year Traffic Change Google Pagerank Facebook 5 73,787,766 +159.0% 8 LinkedIn 14 11,246,726 +137.4% 7 Naymz 12,476 522,953 +93.2%

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The Coming Consolidation in Social Networking

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Wikipedia lists more than 100 social networking sites , and Social Media Trader recently compiled an even more exhaustive list of 115 social news and bookmark sites rated by PageRank, number of inbound links and dollar value of each site. Later, I wrote about a couple more , and newer sites such as Twitter keep popping up.

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How to Build Traffic Generating Links

Sharpspring

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. Wikipedia is nofollowing all its links but would you pass on a link from Wikipedia just because it is a nofollow link?

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How to Use Link Building for Improving SEO

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Building links on more prominent, important pages can help you squeeze more PageRank flow out of every link you build. Cite yourself on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a major authority, and earning a link there could be a major boon for your SEO. Image Source: Wikipedia ). Focus your inbound links on key pages.

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Google and the Parable of the Turkey

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As Eric Goldman reported on his Technology & Marketing Law blog, a company called KinderStart sued Google in March of 2006 : "Google has been sued for downgrading the PageRank of websites in contravention of its stated 'objective' policies. Sure—but don't count on beating the search giant in court.

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The Insidious Nofollow Tag: An SEO Rant

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According to Wikipedia (among the worst nofollow offenders ), “The nofollow HTML attribute was originally designed to stop comment spam on blogs. If it’s there for any reason other than Pagerank sculpting (e.g. nofollowing pages like “Contact Us&# ), move along.

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