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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. Despite its flaws, Wikipedia isn't going to disappear.

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High Points on the Social Media Landscape

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Wikipedia is the most difficult to edit due to the tight control maintained by the site's primary editors and their hostility to any content that can be construed, however remotely, as promotional. Knol may lack Wikipedia's cachet, but it's a much friendlier place. 9 Knol N/A 386,772 +22,303.6% 7 Freebase 22,726 206,489 +1,132.2%

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The 5 Best Social Media Sites for Small Businesses

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Wikipedia – It is a boon to your small business to be mentioned on Wikipedia. One caveat: Wikipedia editors can be ruthless about removing external links from the site, so it isn't an easy feat to make your small business "stick." Wetpaint – Wikipedia isn't the only wiki on the map.

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Don't They Know Who You Are? Why Reputation Management is Critical

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Consider writing a Wikipedia page about yourself. Keep in mind, however, that you have to be considered a public figure (or at least be able to make the argument that you should be) or the Wikipedia cabal will reject the article and take it down.

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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. A while back, I posted the Alexa rankings for 42 popular Web 2.0 social tagging sites.

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Google and the Parable of the Turkey

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Remember KinderStart above, and there is the case of Wikipedia: there's no question that it wouldn't have become the seventh-most visited site on the Web without serious help from the #1 site. It will be interesting to see what happens to the Google position of Wikipedia pages once Knol is launched , no?

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Web 2.0 and the Evolution of Marketing

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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 He recommends that marketers reward their best customers with valuable information (something I've said before ) and use Web 2.0

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