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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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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% 7 Naymz 12,476 522,953 +93.2%

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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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Inbound Marketing the Way God Intended

Biznology

Image via Wikipedia. and entire “informational” sites similar to Wikipedia, distributed globally, on many different servers and under many different domains and sub-domains to emulate its “impossible” counterpart. Last week I asked my management team if what we do at Abraham Harrison is inbound marketing.

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The Trouble with Klout

Paul Gillin

Klout attempts to determine influence metrics by looking at a person’s online activities and the actions of others that result from them. Both are sought-after speakers and the subject of extensive Wikipedia articles. In her interview with Schwartzman, Berry described Klout as “[Google] PageRank for people.&#

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Blogger outreach is earned media PR, isn’t it?

Biznology

” (Wikipedia). It could be exclusive content, it could be unique access to a person or technology, it could be the generous use or advance access to a product or service with the express intent of giving them time to experience, review, and critique it to share it with their readers. There is a lot of money going on.

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