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Google says no more Penguin releases–what does it mean?

Biznology

And Google has always tried to use data to improve its ranking algorithm, starting in the beginning with its PageRank link analysis approach. So if you are still listening to people describing how you fool Google with tricks and other chicanery, that’s so 2009.

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Online Marketing News in 2009: The Year’s Hottest Events

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Here is our 2009 year in review. December 2009 Online Marketing News. Top word of 2009: Twitter. November 2009 Online Marketing News. October 2009 Online Marketing News. September 2009 Online Marketing News. Neilson report announces US Ad Spending Declined 15% in first half of 2009.

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26 Google Webmaster Tools Videos Addressing Common B2B Link Building Questions

KoMarketing Associates

Does PageRank Flow Through Image Links? Popularity versus PageRank (or reputation) are separate but related discussions that can collectively impact search results but also may not have direct influence. Created: August 20, 2009. Does PageRank Flow Through Image Links? How Many Links On A Page Should We Have?

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Best of 2009 (So Far): SEO Guidance, Part 3

WebMarketCentral

My only quibble would be with his advice to use the nofollow attribute for PageRank sculpting; the nofollow tag is insidious and the value questionable. This post includes a couple of excellent graphics showing the differences in how search engine algorithms treat highly competitive terms from more specific longtail phrases.

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Do-it-Yourself Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your WordPress.

Industrial Marketing Today

Here’s a screenshot of my setting: Changing permalinks after your blog has been live for a while can cause you to lose pagerank in search engines and generate “404 page not found” errors. I prefer just the postname since I optimize it with keywords and phrases. To overcome this problem, install the Redirection Plugin.

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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%

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How Facebook and Twitter Affect SEO

SnapApp

Search engines use those links from other sites to your site as a signal that your site is an important resource on a given topic (Google calls this link-based importance metric "PageRank", named after founder Larry Page). In recent months, however, search engines have figured out how to effectively tap into Facebook and Twitter as?

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