We've all heard about the wisdom of crowds, with Wikipedia and even entire industry of television voting shows attempting to prove the paradigm. By involving their audience to make them feel like their input is listened to, a brand can build...
There was controversy a few years ago where the tilde sign was used with the word Scientology, and it also brought up a Wikipedia article for “cult”. One of the lesser-known tools used by searchers on Google has been the tilde sign (~) operator.
So one of the first things you want to do, Beckman said, is to make sure that your brand has a profile on all the social networks, whether it's Google+, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and so on.
The following properties have the highest likelihood of showing up for brand terms: Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn. You can also include links from your Wikipedia page to your social profiles.
With Google's Knowledge Graph, Wikipedia's Wikidata, and Wolfram|Alpha's database (that supports Siri), the efforts to make the world understandable to machines are gradually fulfilling another function: making information on entities and...
See the following thread about online piracy in the age of free sharing of information, as Wikipedia does. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales explains Wikipedia's stance in response. The more important message is that someone as influential as Jimmy...
Making your mobile search faster – Google Inside Search BlogGoogle adds expandable sitelinks, or "quick links" (essentially sitelinks within sitelinks), as well as an experimental blue "Quick view" badge that only works with Wikipedia pages.
As you can see, miniature images of the president appear next to links to whitehouse.gov and Wikipedia. However, a check of the Wikipedia page does not bear the same fruit. SEOs have been saying that authorship markup and other rich snippets are...
Image Credit: Wikipedia A few months ago I wrote about the death of paid search and had to sustain the backlash of the paid search community through 38 comments and multiple “hate tweets. I actually enjoyed the discussions and learned quite a lot...
You’ll need to incentivize them to create content for you but the information they provide will be far more useful than having someone who has never been to a location writing generic text based on a Wikipedia article for that place.
Once or twice called a “Wikipedia killer” Knol competed with Wikipedia, but offered a distinct difference in that Knol articles featured personal expertise by emphasizing authorship more similar to Squidoo and HubPages.
It's everything from a massive site like Wikipedia to a single tweet to a Facebook wall post to a G+ update to a mobile app to a PDF document to a YouTube channel. Another year has come and gone. For link builders, 2012 may well be remembered as...
Unless you're Wikipedia, a #1 Search Position can't be guaranteed. The techniques and tactics of “doing” SEO are forever changing and constantly challenging. For many SEO agencies, the marketing and selling of SEO services is a bigger hurdle than...
Link to a company website, a Wikipedia page, more videos of the same genre, etc. The most viral video on YouTube is definitely worth a little analysis to figure out what made it so popular with most of the world.
Like Google, Bing Snapshots are primarily pulling data from Wikipedia and Freebase. Bing have added two new categories to their 'snapshot' search results - namely, people and landmarks. A boxed result akin to 'Snapshots' called 'Places' were...
The Knowledge Graph culled data from a variety of outside sources such as Wikipedia, Weather Underground, and Freebase.com to summarize key facts and images in a box in the right frame of the SERP. With the speed that things change in the SEO...
Google is more popular than Wikipedia or other online encyclopedia sites, YouTube or other social media sites, major news sites like The New York Times and CNN, and “traditional” sources of information (e.g.textbooks, print books, online databases...
But, as you can see, the third result in our SERPs is a Wikipedia page, which is a page related to the brand query, but that is not under control of the brand owner. What we found is that there is a good chance that the positioning of the Wikipedia...
Image credit: Wikipedia Thanks to Bharati Ahuja for kicking us off. Now we would like to hear from you! If you are based in or do business in India, drop us a line if you would like to write for us. In May 2012, Google announced the Knowledge Graph...
According to the Klout blog, if you have linked your Wikipedia account on Klout, your "profile will also be rewarded for the frequency [you] are searched on Bing. Klout and Bing have teamed up to include Klout Scores and influential topics into the...
