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Excerpt: Everyone in SEO is banging on about how social media is so great for SEO. We talk about it often on SEO the Game but have not really discussed it in detail. What is the social media and what are the opportunities out there for those dipping their SEO toes in the water? What is Social Media? You might be forgiven for thinking it was any site with a domain name that replaces ‘er’ with just r at the end of the domain (Flickr, Frappr, Scanr) or it was any site with a stupid nonsense word (Squidoo, Ning).  However, I would say…

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Excerpt: Introduction Increasingly when you visit a web site, you will notice that there are lots of strange icons that take you to sites with strange names. These are social bookmarking sites and they allow you to add sites of interest and share them with other people. The idea being that sites with good or useful content are being flagged up, enhancing the user experience. Are they a useful for SEO or will they just become another way to collect spam? The Origin of Social Bookmarking Sites Although we are seeing a proliferation of social bookmarking sites, they actually date back quite a long…