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...
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.
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. Perhaps the subject to get the most attention in...
It's not enough simply to look at the outgoing links on each site: a common tactic for professional link selling networks is to mask these sold links with a plethora of innocent ones (often to trusted sites such as Wikipedia).
Public pages on Tracky are HTML5, augmented with Open Graph meta tags (en.wikipedia.org/…h_protocol), making the content easily spiderable and categorized (e.g. Community building If that’s the case, you can be one step ahead of the competition...
Image Credit: Wikipedia That said, the growth of any new technology presents a challenge to the security community as they adapt the new space and possible attack vectors. When you connect to the Internet, your computer or mobile device is assigned...
Don't fuss at me about linking to Wikipedia.here's a great list of social networking sites. To find guest post opportunities you can join a community like My Blog Guest or you can simply do some extremely basic searches like these: keyword...
Knol, Google's version of Wikipedia, has had problems, both technical and in gaining traction. We encourage affected sites to create a Google+ page and place a Google+ badge on their site so they can bring their community of followers to Google...
According to Wikipedia, the first feature film ever made was "The Story of the Kelly Gang," an Australian film based on the infamous Ned Kelly. YouTube has a tradition of celebrating April Fools Day as only the the largest worldwide video-sharing...
The Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal is assigned every year by the European Geosciences Union (www.egu.eu) to scientists who provided significant advance in the fields of Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology, and Volcanology," as Wikipedia notes.
For example, if your page is about a well-known album, and you happened to be the sound engineer on that album, then it's legitimate to link out to your site -- especially if your site contains extra information about the album that would be of...
A remarkable increase considering that in contrast to Wikipedia, wikiwho.com appears to be a classic definition of a content farm. However, we are interested in hearing feedback from site owners and the community as we continue to refine our...
Just to get a bit self-righteous: surely my review-page for Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 is among the most useful non-Japanese ones currently available (certainly better than what Wikipedia has on offer), yet it barely breaks the top fifty results in a...
Once thought of as the Wikipedia killer - the site seems to have some spam issues and has not been updated since December 2009, according to reports. Though the search box is working and a couple of the searches I did showed a decent number of...
Top 10 Wikipedia.org Person Clicks Although the professional success of many of us in the SEO/SEM community relies on search performance, that doesn't mean we can't take a minute to remember that search is just a big jumble and study of words; in...
Also, the wikipedia entry for the site is hilarious. Having no domain authority whatsoever, especially when compared to strong social news alternatives like Digg and Reddit (that really do impact Google results) must have left the powers users of...
Creating an informational/reference area on the site for all things environment related (the top 10 search destinations for these terms are all informational in nature, such as Wikipedia). A great example of this kind of collaboration would be the...
Image via Wikipedia To become a winner, Canadians must drum up support from their friends, family and their community to vote for their submitted picture(s). How do you get Canadians from Victoria to Petawawa to put their town on the map?
