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Social Networking Sites and SEO: What Wikipedia Won't Tell You

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Within an astonishingly short time, Wikipedia has become one of the most-visited sites on the Internet. For example, Wikipedia's list of social networking websites now contains 111 entries; an impressive list, but certainly not all-inclusive. It's been said that with great power comes great responsibility.

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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%

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The 5 Best Social Media Sites for Small Businesses

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StumbleUpon - A recent post cited StumbleUpon as the best social media site for driving B2B Web traffic. Not only it is easier to gain attention on StumbleUpon than many other bookmarking sites, the tail of traffic is much longer. Wikipedia – It is a boon to your small business to be mentioned on Wikipedia.

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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. The leaders will garner high amounts of traffic appealing to a wide market. social tagging sites.

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Google and the Parable of the Turkey

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On some small company websites, between organic search and AdWords, Google can drive 70% or more of total traffic. Through Analytics, it knows how much traffic the company's website gets, where the traffic comes from, which pages get visited most frequently, and who is visiting those pages.

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Web 2.0 and the Evolution of Marketing

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Web Traffic. The article notes that Wikipedia has already become the dominant reference website -- outdrawing Encarta by a 3400 to 1 ratio -- and quotes Bill Tancer of Hitwise as saying, ""It's the participatory aspect of Web 2.0 tools to drive customer community participation. Next, MarketingVOX reported that Web 2.0

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Using ALL the Tools of Social Media Optimization

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But to really drive serious traffic from these sites, you need to know how to play the game with "power users" and the community. You can find some great posts on capitalizing on social bookmarking sites on Social Media Today , and no one has written more great stuff about using Digg to drive traffic than Chris Lang.