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AuthorLinks Rebrands as AuthPost, Continues Selling Posts Based on Google Authorship, Klout Score

Bill Hartzer

Since then, there has been a lot of mixed emotions from the SEO community about buying and selling Google Authorship, along with the fact that AuthorLinks appeared to merely be selling links in posts whose authors had verified their Google Authorship.

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25 Social Media Pet Peeves – How Many Are You Doing?

SocMed Sean

–Sean Posting a lot of meaningless content (pins, check-ins, etc…) just to artificially inflate your Empire Avenue, Klout, or Kred score. Only posting promotional posts/tweets/articles and never engaging in a 2-way dialog with your community. Guidance from social media gurus that their way is the only way.

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How to Increase Twitter Engagement with Nestivity

Kikolani

Use this tool to really start talking to your Twitter community vs. broadcasting at them. Increase your Klout. Not that anyone cares about Klout scores (wink wink), but participating in regular discussions on Twitter will help boost your Klout rankings due to the increase in mentions of your @username in discussions.

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How does your brand look on social media?

Janet Fouts

Momentus Media Community Health Score. It supposedly also rates your search engine visibility but that’s a paid service that’s not available yet, so I haven’t evaluated it. Klout has used their knowledge of influencers to leverage their Klout with programs like the much lauded Virgin America campaign.

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How Google+ Could Affect SEO

Idaconcpts

There are several issues with ranking user-generated content through social media because it depends who is the original author, to what communities the author belongs to, and whether the author is an authority on the subject of the content. The +1′s counts on the comment should help to shed some light for search engines.

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Alan K’necht: Über Thinker & SEO Brainiac: An Interview

Firebelly

Social has always been a critical part of SEO but up until recently it didn’t form part of the various search engine algorithms. This impact is only going to be further improved upon by the leading search engines. The SEO community is up in arms over it because they now have a harder time proving what they’re doing actually works.

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Book Review Wednesday: Wikibrands: Reinventing your company in.

Akamai Marketing

Now, here comes the beef: it transitions nicely from the philosophical to the action plan with a concise roadmap called FLIRT, an apropos acronym according to the authors since flirting is “pulse raising, human and engineered to impress.&# Understanding the needs of humans, rather than computers is the essence of Wikibrand success.

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