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Do Social Signals Drive SEO?

Convince & Convert

You get many of your friends, some followers, and even an influencer or two to share it too. All the social media sites NoFollow such links, which acts as an instruction to the search engines to not pass PageRank through those links. Being the savvy content marketer you are, you now set out to to bring an audience to that post.

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12 Reasons Your Business Needs a Social Media Marketing Program.

Saying It Social

Using social media enables your company to reach a huge number of potential customers. Getting your name out there is incredibly important — studies suggest that people need to hear a company’s name at least seven times before they trust and respect it enough to become a customer. if yes, please explain.

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Ross Mayfield's Weblog: Elevating the Enterprise 2.0 Conversation

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Ross Mayfield is the Chairman, President & Co-founder of Socialtext , the first wiki company and leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 Dmitri on Twitter Tips the Tuna. Luke Closs on Enterprise 2.008. flick r.com. Lijit Search. solutions, Plazes. Download Flash plugin. Recent Posts. Socialtext Turns Wiki into a Killer Web Platform. disclosure.

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25 On-Page SEO Keystones to ALWAYS consider

Writtent Blog

Apart from using robots.txt, you can set your preferred domain, use a 301/302 redirect, utilize the rel=”canonical” or rel=”nofollow” tags, and more. Some even say that just implementing these programs can influence indexing and rank since they offer access to more data. Broken Links/404 Errors.

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How to Optimize Your Content for Authorship Success

ProBlogger

&]rel=author query parameter and @rel DOES NOT contain nofollow. Find people that are influential to your particular field, as well as publications or companies that you admire, to follow. rel=author”>Google</a> Your content’s @href contains a G+ profile link and @rel=”author” or @rel=”me”. Sharing is Caring.

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Paid Bloggers Still Get Google Downgrades

Bare Feet Studios

Bloggers who are compensated can use the “nofollow&# tag within their outbound links to keep those links from being tagged by Google as paid content. The nofollow may well make that harder, but then again, if you are under contract I think it’s the buyer’s responsibility to track the postings of the paid blogger.

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Mahalo Mr. Solis | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

I too am influenced by my friends and business colleagues, and am trying to influence the discussion of social media practices here in Hawaii as a long time practitioner and also a founding member of the Social Media Club. We can move business ethics forward, support the companies and the bloggers and the audience.

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