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Don’t They Know Who You Are? Why Reputation Management is Crucial

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One executive I know, the president of a software company, shares the first page of Google with a biomedical researcher, a diplomat, a (not exactly best-selling) author, and the Facebook page of a college student from North Dakota. Yet he owns the first five pages of Google for his identity. A few examples. How To Be Seen.

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An Open Letter to Jimmy Wales

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Got your fundraising appeal for Wikipedia. Let me start by saying I’m a huge fan of Wikipedia; it is a truly amazing tool and a tremendous accomplishment. The Wikipedia cabal. I understand you don’t want Wikipedia to devolve into a collection of marketing brochures. Call off the dogs. The Priesthood.

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

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She provides an excellent taxonomy of the social media landscape, categorizing the different types of social media tools into: • Social News Sites (Digg, Reddit, Kirtsy, etc.). Wikis (Wikipedia, hundreds of specific topic-focused wikis). Post on Google Buzz. Social Networking (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc.). Rich Meyer.

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing – An Hour a Day

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Google currently indexes more than 10 billion sites.) For one, Evans cites the notoriously anti-business Wikipedia as “an example of why social media is useful to you as a marketer.&# Post on Google Buzz. Evans reminds us that the web grew from approximately 6,000 sites in 1992 to one million websites by the mid-nineties.

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The Insidious Nofollow Tag: An SEO Rant

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The nofollow tag was misguidedly inflicted upon the online world by Google in 2005. According to Wikipedia (among the worst nofollow offenders ), “The nofollow HTML attribute was originally designed to stop comment spam on blogs. Ideally, Google should announce it’s no longer recognizing the tag. Post this on Diigo.

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