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

Biznology

Most people get the theory of SEO: You find the keywords and phrases that compose the search queries of your target audience, and you build content that answers the questions implicit in those queries. They built the content. Your content can be indexed by Google for the keywords it contains. They did the keyword research.

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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

Other social activity and presence (Flickr, SlideShare, Wikipedia, etc.). These are the journalists, bloggers, analysts (industry or financial) and others who can help amplify your content, spread your story, and lend credibility to your messages. . • Facebook / LinkedIn / Google Plus metrics (i.e.

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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? In particular, I've seen Wikipedia drive significant amounts of traffic even for niche terms without huge search volume. had a link 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. PageRank is a number assigned to pages by Google that essentially tells us how important they are within the entire index. Virality & the Importance Of Quickly-Appearing Links.

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High Points on the Social Media Landscape

WebMarketCentral

Describing it through the four C's—content, context, connections and conversation—was one approach. 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% 8 Plaxo 1,440 2,629,043 +144.7% 7 Friendster 47 1,454,029 -20.0%

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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? See what’s written and linked in your niche.

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