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High Points on the Social Media Landscape

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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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The Coming Consolidation in Social Networking

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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

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As Eric Goldman reported on his Technology & Marketing Law blog, a company called KinderStart sued Google in March of 2006 : "Google has been sued for downgrading the PageRank of websites in contravention of its stated 'objective' policies. Sure—but don't count on beating the search giant in court.

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SEO Rant: The Insidious Nofollow Tag

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According to Wikipedia (among the worst nofollow offenders ), "The nofollow HTML attribute was originally designed to stop comment spam on blogs. If it's there for any reason other than Pagerank sculpting (e.g. The nofollow tag was misguidedly inflicted upon the online world by Google in 2005.

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