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

Biznology

Google doesn’t rank anything based solely on how well the semantics of the piece relate to the query. Your content can be indexed by Google for the keywords it contains. 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.

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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.

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

Webbiquity

Facebook / LinkedIn / Google Plus metrics (i.e. Other social activity and presence (Flickr, SlideShare, Wikipedia, etc.). If not, or to supplement the results from those paid tools, do some manual research using free tools like AllTop , Technorati and Google Blog Search. Collecting this information is Phase I.

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

seo.co

Google doesn’t think so either. Link velocity is one of the hundreds of factors included in Google’s ranking algorithm. PageRank is a number assigned to pages by Google that essentially tells us how important they are within the entire index. What Does Google say About Link Velocity? But, what is it?

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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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High Points on the Social Media Landscape

WebMarketCentral

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%

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Google and the Parable of the Turkey

WebMarketCentral

The stock market can be brutal when a company fails to meet earning expectations, such as it was last week when Google's stock price fell by 10% despite a 35% increase in earnings. Like the farmer's hungry children, investors are demanding that Google squeeze more out of its turkeys. Err, advertisers. But first, the paranoid fantasy.

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