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Social Networking Sites and SEO: What Wikipedia Won't Tell You

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Within an astonishingly short time, Wikipedia has become one of the most-visited sites on the Internet. For example, Wikipedia's list of social networking websites now contains 111 entries; an impressive list, but certainly not all-inclusive. Despite its flaws, Wikipedia isn't going to disappear.

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Don't They Know Who You Are? Why Reputation Management is Critical

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The emergence of social media changed all that of course, so now that person can vent online to, essentially, the entire world. Consider writing a Wikipedia page about yourself. That means you'll need to have links to third-party sources who have written about you, and the, er, idiosyncratic folks at Wikipedia will have to agree.

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Google and the Parable of the Turkey

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The turkey grows to trust the farmer completely, even perhaps developing a fondness for the farmer (and of course the feed). Of course, that doesn't take into account the perspective of the turkey farmer. It will be interesting to see what happens to the Google position of Wikipedia pages once Knol is launched , no?

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Best of 2008 (So Far) - SEO Link Building

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The strategies vary from creative (finding local link opportunities) to ubiquitous (directory submissions) to questionable (" Wikipedia - very good if you can get links from here" - Wikipedia of course uses insidious nofollow tags and its priesthood is notoriously hostile to anything that remotely resembles commercial content).

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The 4 C's of Social Media

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There are many definitions of social media floating about of course, they just aren't consistent. Social media "are primarily Internet- and mobile-based tools for sharing and discussing information" according to Wikipedia.

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Using ALL the Tools of Social Media Optimization

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Blogs are of course one of the most common forms of social media, and there are significant benefits to having your own blog as well as building name recognition and credibility for your company through other industry blogs.