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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. This was not a popular statement among marketers, who want to tell stories and preach brand value.

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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

PageRank is a number assigned to pages by Google that essentially tells us how important they are within the entire index. We’re all familiar with this concept because of browser toolbars that assign web pages a PR value, generally ranging from 0 to 10+ (for sites like Wikipedia). Linking Out.

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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% 7 Naymz 12,476 522,953 +93.2%

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How to Build Traffic Generating Links

Sharpspring

Some companies will avoid these types of links because they don’t pass any PageRank, but the truth is that these links are still valuable. Wikipedia is nofollowing all its links but would you pass on a link from Wikipedia just because it is a nofollow link? You can find a cheap domain using this brand name generator.

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How to Use Link Building for Improving SEO

seo.co

For example, getting featured on the blog is a noteworthy achievement and you’ll earn substantial authority that way—but you could get even more SEO value or “link juice” if you’re featured on a “Partners” page, or if you have an entire page dedicated to your brand. Cite yourself on Wikipedia.

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Blogger outreach is earned media PR, isn’t it?

Biznology

” (Wikipedia). Well, most of the true A-list bloggers do not put such a mercenary barrier between companies, organizations, and brands–which is how they became A-list bloggers–by being likeable, accessible, having character, being popular, and having integrity. This is a pity. Why is this a pity?

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