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

Biznology

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. In the book I said you should be the Wikipedia of your most important topics. Domain authority is not a new concept, it’s been a staple of good SEO for a long time.

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

seo.co

As search engines and other crawling software become more sophisticated, they can find and index links faster than ever before. PageRank is a number assigned to pages by Google that essentially tells us how important they are within the entire index. Link velocity is the term given to describe this phenomenon. Linking Out.

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The Coming Consolidation in Social Networking

WebMarketCentral

Wikipedia lists more than 100 social networking sites , and Social Media Trader recently compiled an even more exhaustive list of 115 social news and bookmark sites rated by PageRank, number of inbound links and dollar value of each site. Later, I wrote about a couple more , and newer sites such as Twitter keep popping up.

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Google and the Parable of the Turkey

WebMarketCentral

Move over SharePoint, Google's got a challenge on the Enterprise 3 blog states that "With the announcement of Google Sites , Google has unveiled a tool that incorporates email, calendars, excels, documents and presentation software." Consider how much knowledge Google potentially has about its advertisers. Actually, an unprecedented amount.

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