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12 Reasons Your Business Needs a Social Media Marketing Program.

Saying It Social

SEO benefits: Many social media bookmarking sites use NOFOLLOW tags that limit the outbound link value of posts made on their sites, but there are still many leading sites that allow DOFOLLOW tags — including Friendfeed, Digg, and Mixx. eMarketer reports that consumers force retailers to adopt social strategy.

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Getting Started with Integrating Search and Social Media

Saying It Social

The links from the profile page may have nofollow tags, but they will drive traffic and different search engines treat the nofollow tag differently. eMarketer reports that consumers force retailers to adopt social strategy. People use various social media sites in different ways. Be there, and tell them you’re there.

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

ProBlogger

Bloggers have an advantage that static and retail websites don’t. Later, social networks like Digg, Last.fm, and others were affected as well. 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. The answer is, a lot.

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Use CommentLuv for better comments - Koka Sexton dot Com

Koka Sexton

Amazing 2008 Topps Triple Threads Football box break ¬ Raj Kumar #3401 February 26th, 2009 at 10:23 pm Commentluv is a great plug however if the site owner has the nofollow tag on in the comments then it loses half of it’s value since the search engines will not follow it. Maybe it is because I am using Blogger?

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Social Media Strategy: 10 Experts Reveal Their Secrets

Viper Chill

For example, you might not know that I helped one newspaper go from a limited social media presence to helping them hit the Digg homepage over 40 times. More than any other social site on the web, with Digg you have to participate in all aspects of the site. Digg, however, is really hard to “game.&#

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Best Social Media Stats, Facts and Marketing Research of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

Regardless of age group, personal recommendations from company or industry colleagues are rated the most influential information source, while retail websites are least relied upon. Just over 50% of buyers under 40 use social media, versus 35% for more senior buyers. “Facebook&# is also the most commonly used term in search.

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Koka Sexton dot Com

Koka Sexton

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