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You’re doing SEO wrong: it’s all about authority

Biznology

But it is not likely to rank for competitive terms unless your site demonstrates authority on the topic. 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. Answer all the questions in all the related queries.

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Social business, the forest and the garden: Your intranet is not the Internet

Biznology

Photo credit: Wikipedia. The last 20 years have witnessed many success stories over the net: sites such as Yahoo!, Altavista, Geocities, AOL, Google, Amazon, WordPress, eBay, Hotmail, Wikipedia, MySpace, Flickr, Delicious, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Quora, Pinterest all had their days of glory. Why does that happen?

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How (and Why) to Map Your Company’s Digital Landscape

Webbiquity

Other social activity and presence (Flickr, SlideShare, Wikipedia, etc.). This is as simple as searching within “groups” on each social networking site for your primary keywords and recording the results. Your prospective buyers are likely having conversations in places well beyond the big five social networking sites.

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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? If a link is from a strong site and will pass traffic then I think you should go and get it. Under what circumstances can you pursue links from Wikipedia?

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Link Velocity: How to Use Link Velocity to Your Advantage in SEO

seo.co

If your site or specific page URL acquired 100 hyperlinks today and 10,000 tomorrow (without any virality involved), would that look natural to you? PageRank is a number assigned to pages by Google that essentially tells us how important they are within the entire index. Google doesn’t think so either. Linking Out.

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High Points on the Social Media Landscape

WebMarketCentral

The intent of the lists below is to categorize the landscape and show the most prominent sites in each category. Social Networking Sites where you can post your profile, promote links to your company site / blog / etc., Social Networking Sites where you can post your profile, promote links to your company site / blog / etc.,

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The Coming Consolidation in Social Networking

WebMarketCentral

Social media sites are multiplying like rabbits. social tagging sites. Later, I wrote about a couple more , and newer sites such as Twitter keep popping up. As Paul Dunay points out, the explosion of social media sites has spawned its own acronym : YASN (Yet Another Social Network).