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Why Your Search Engine Optimization Strategy Must Now Include Social Validation

Bill Hartzer

But it might be even better: the users who use search engines are the same people who frequently participate on social media and social networking web sites. So, it’s only logical that if a URL is liked on a social networking or social media web site, it’s also going to be liked if it shows up in the search results.

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

As she notes in her introduction, Li’s book is organized around four main themes: Research: start by using search and social media monitoring tools to discover where your customers and prospects are congregating. Don’t automatically assume they use the most popular social networks. Social Events (e.g.,

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How to Promote Your Business, Blog or Website on Twitter

Kikolani

While there are many opportunities to promote your own agenda on Twitter, you have to keep a healthy balance between promoting yourself, responding to others who ask you questions, thanking Twitter users that help you out, and just sharing valuable information with your followers from other websites and blogs. Keyword Value.

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The Ultimate Guide to Leaving Comments On Blogs

ProBlogger

It’s doubtful that the comments have any real benefit to the commenter as most blogs have nofollow links in comments which kill any search ranking benefits and nobody in their right mind will click their links as they’re so obviously spammy. The Commenter who Builds their Profile by Delivering Value.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Your Input Wanted & More

Kikolani

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, a reader poll, and upcoming posts on the Kikolani Network. Before I get to the good stuff (the resources of course), I wanted to ask Fetching Friday fans the following question. Why nofollow still matters. Reader Poll.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Blog World Meetups Tweetups and Parties

Kikolani

10 common misconceptions dispelled – do muscles turn to fat if you stop exercising and answers to 9 other questions. 5 ways to use your social profiles for SEO – tips on how followed and nofollowed profiles can help with link credit and more. Social Media / Social Networking. Infographics.

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Quora Marketing Guide 101: How to Promote Your Brand on Quora the Right Way

Webbiquity SMM

But how can a simple question and answer platform help to build a powerful brand online? Quora is, of course, a social question-and-answer website launched in 2010. The platform allows registered users from around the world to ask and answer questions. To explain, here’s a dive with this Quora marketing guide.

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