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10 SEO Tactics That No Longer Work (If They Ever Did) | Small.

Small Business Mavericks

PageRank Sculpting – A few SEOs taught a couple of years ago that you could increase your link popularity to your best pages by adding a nofollow attribute to links pointing to your terms of service and privacy policy pages. It doesn’t. Don’t count on it, especially if your website has only 10 pages.

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Best Twitter Tips, Tools and Tactics of 2011

Webbiquity SMM

The 11 Twitter Tools and Apps I Use Every Day in 2011 by Business2Community. Retweets from relevant and highly influential Twitters, however, can have a significant impact on ranking. 7 Key Ways to Optimize Twitter for Search by HubSpot Blog. 14 Twitter Tools for Enterprise Business by Sprout Insights.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2011

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In January of 2011, I said that I’d make our Internet Marketing Posts of 2011 subscriber only. This year, I am pleased to bring back our Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2011 thanks to an excellent sponsor, HubSpot. New Edition of the Ranking Factors for 2011 is Now Live !: It’s pretty exhaustive too.

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Link-building Tips and Tools for Bloggers in a Post-Panda and Penguin World

ProBlogger

In February of 2011, Google released the Panda update that took rankings away from websites with low-quality content and sites with more advertising than content. Links can do this regardless of whether or not they contain the “nofollow” attribute, contain redirects, come from a site with a high PageRank , and so on.

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10 Dreadful Mistakes that Kill Your Comments

Kikolani

Besides her numerous guest posts all around the blogosphere, several prestigious awards like Finalists: Top 10 Social Media Blogs 2011 , and being an all around nice gal, Kristi is always about GIVING to her readers. And yes, you need a mixture of both Dofollow and Nofollow links, because that’s what natural link building looks like.

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Should We Continue To Trust Google? | Small Business Mavericks

Small Business Mavericks

I thought Google had added a nofollow algorithm for article directories and that it wouldn’t count those links because the idea is to get your links from publishers who use your articles rather than to rely on links from the directories. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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5 Ways that Social Media Impacts SEO

Adam Sherk

Unfortunately many social media sites add a “nofollow” attribute to any links within user generated content. My Top Posts of 2011 on SEO, PR and Social Media for Publishers. A link from a quality, trusted site has considerably greater weight than a like, tweet or +1.

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