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SEO in 2018, Which Practices You Should Avoid and Why.

Social Media Marketing

Link Building: Avoid Forum Posts John Mueller posted this after someone asked if Reddit comments are dofollow. The guy wrote: “I recently commented on another thread regarding this, and I just did a double-take and Reddit comments indeed appear to not have the "nofollow"-relation? How do they work?”

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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. People use various social media sites in different ways. Be there, and tell them you’re there. There could be an SEO boost in it for you. Expand your social network.

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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. Are you using social media to grow your business? Please share your experiences!

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Build Backlinks – 14 Easy Ways

Convince & Convert

While comments and any links you include in your description will have the rel=”nofollow” attribute, YouTube gives you a link in your profile that is devoid of no – follow. Also in the Digg and Reddit category. Plus, you can submit articles you want to promote, and links to those articles are followed by search engines.

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

She provides an excellent taxonomy of the social media landscape, categorizing the different types of social media tools into: • Social News Sites (Digg, Reddit, Kirtsy, etc.). In chapter 37, she almost seems to defend the insidious nofollow tag , which has outlived whatever useful life it once had and should be banished. Tweet This!

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Ross Mayfield's Weblog: Elevating the Enterprise 2.0 Conversation

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Reddit Open Sources with CPAL. Ross Mayfield is the Chairman, President & Co-founder of Socialtext , the first wiki company and leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions, Plazes. Download Flash plugin. Recent Posts. Socialtext Turns Wiki into a Killer Web Platform. Plazes Acquired by Nokia. Wiki Universal Edit Button. Millennial Backlash.

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Takeaways from Google’s Updated Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide

Bill Hartzer

Hmmmm… Even if those links are ‘nofollow’ links? Share this on Reddit. If you want to go one step further, think of the possibilities of this: Does Google give extra weight to links that are being shared on social networking websites? Interesting concept. Subscribe to the comments for this post? Post this on Diigo.