Having a Wikipedia page about yourself or your company is a milestone that improves your brand equity. And you don’t even need to visit Wikipedia to see that. Google any notable brand, and you’ll most likely see something like this: Most of the displayed information comes from Wikipedia and Wikidata. However, getting a Wikipedia page is […]
Facebook appears to be testing the addition of Wikipedia knowledge panels in search results, according to reports from multiple users. Based on the screenshots shared on Twitter, this feature is reminiscent of Google’s integration with Wikipedia. Here’s an example that was spotted a few days ago: New? Facebook shows Wikipedia snippits in search results h/t
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When Searchmetrics presented Slide #14 in their “2019 SEO Year-End Review” presentation, you could have knocked me over with a feather. That’s when I discovered that YouTube has steadily (and stealthily) increased its organic visibility in Google’s SERPs over the past two years and recently surpassed Wikipedia for the #1 spot. Stop the presses! That’s
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Jane Zhang / South China Morning Post: A profile of Baidu Bake, an encyclopedia with 16 times more Chinese entries than Wikipedia, written by 6.9M+ users comprising about 340 core contributors — Sign in/up — Channels — SCMP Editorials — Harry’s View — SCMP — Channels — Economics — Lifestyle & Culture Source link
Wikipedia was offline across several countries in Europe and the Middle East Friday after the popular online encyclopedia was targeted in a distributed denial of service attack. The Wikimedia Foundation Inc., the non-profit organization that runs Wikipedia did not go into a lot of details about the attack but implied that the attack may have
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Wikipedia is down across the globe after a ‘malicious attack’ – with work underway to solve the problem. A major DDos attack – or denial of service – has been blamed for the outage, with pages currently available intermittently. A DDos attack is where multiple compromised systems – often infected with a Trojan virus –
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on July 11, 2019 at 10:52 am Consumers are increasing employing search through voice assistants and those queries extend to questions about brands. In the Voice Assistant SEO Report for Brands published this week by Voicebot in collaboration with Magic + Co., a key finding of note is the particular importance
Top Ways to Get Wikipedia Recognition Gaining online recognition is the aim of every marketer. Everybody is struggling with their full potential to hit the paddle and succeed at double the pace. But what is needed to get such enhanced online visibility? Well, the first thing is a great platform like Wikipedia. Wikipedia though does
An embarrassing ad campaign demonstrates that even in today’s mature digital marketing ecoystem, there are still agencies and executives at prominent brands that fundamentally don’t understand the rules of digital marketing. Leo Burnett Tailor Made, a subsidiary of Publicis Groupe’s Leo Burnett Worldwide, recently came up with an idea for the Brazilian subsidiary of The
The North Face is apologizing for a campaign, called ‘Top of Images’ project, in which the company’s Brazilian division manipulated North Face’s search engine optimization (SEO) rankings on Google via a Wikipedia hack that went unnoticed until reported by Ad Age. As part of the campaign, VF Corporation-owned The North Face used photos of travelers
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