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Following the rather disappointing session on duplicate content, the later sessions were a (slight) improvement.
The session on social media saw Rand from SEOmoz listing the most influential social media sites for ranking & traffic is, which had YouTube at #1. It also included Yelp which I had never heard of before, and the nugget of information that the comments in Flickr don’t have a nofollow, and therefore pass ‘link love’. He also said that Twitter was useless which made me happy as I agree.
Neil Patel of ProNet explained the rules of social media, most of which are pretty obvious and could be summarised as don’t try to spam these communities. As with all aspects of online business, there may be a short-term gain in illicit activities, but they soo...