Here’s what Matt Cutts (the Google Spokesperson) has to say about that:

So, does your page rank matter? No, as I mentioned in an earlier post, the links on your page are all “no follow,” so it doesn’t help a hoot to be on someone’s page with a PR10. That’s too bad. Twitter could be sending lots of link love, but as that encourages spamming, I guess it’s better than it doesn’t. Dam-ned spammers ruin the Internet for everyone.

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Ning came out with a new app that will make your social network hum like a bee hive — Facebook integration. It will allow your network members at Ning to add their content to Facebook very easily, thus introducing your Ning network to all of their Facebook connections. That could be pretty sweet, especially if your Ning network is very active.

I just added the app to the Blogging4Boomers Ning network, and it’s a breeze. If you’re the Ning administrator, you just log in and go to Manage. You’ll quickly see a Facebook icon, and when you click on it, Facebook comes up. You fill in some basic information and you’re good to go!

A little while back Ning allowed administrators to connect to Twitter, as well.

Tying all of your content together through several social networks can be very powerful. You can Tweet something from your Ning site that invites your Twitter followers, people who may never have known about your social site at Ning, too.

Set up a social site for your niche at Ning. It’s free, and easy, and if your niche is one where there’s a lot of activity, you could come away with a pretty powerful social vehicle for traffic.  The Blogging4Boomers Ning site was set up as a kind of forum for my members there, but anyone can join. You can see and join us at  http://blogging4boomers.ning.com/

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Knowing what Google thinks is what SEOs spend most of their time trying to figure out. And it’s an inexact science at best. But sometimes… just sometimes, Google TELLS us what it’s thinking, which is good. Knowing what to expect always makes things better, eh?

So, a little while back, Google started adding Twitter Tweets to the search results. Everyone wondered how those would be indexed and ranked, and there was a lot of speculation about how things would end up, where they’d be placed, and so on. A couple of months ago, Amit Singhal, Google’s real time search guru guy (which Tweets, blog posts, video, Facebook, and other avenues of communication that are immediate in nature) told us how this works, and so… nobody needs to wonder. How cool is that?

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Google Buzz vs. Wave

10 February 2010

I don’t get it… I mean, really. What’s the deal with Google Buzz? You use it from GMail, which is cool, but how does it differ from Google Wave?

We were all so excited about Wave that we had to apply and wait to get our invitations. Then, as soon as we started to use it, we got tons of issues. Locking mainly, so that if you used it for any kind of meeting, it might kick you out and then, you couldn’t log in again to get back to your stuff. That was totally frustrating.

I’m guessing that Wave is real time as the old IRC chat used to be and Buzz is not. Buzz is more like Twitter. It’s pretty quick, but a stream, not real time chat like Google Talk.

What would we do without Google Talk? To me, that’s one of Google’s best tools. So, think of Wave as Google Talk and pictures and video and Google Buzz like Twitter with pictures and video.

Google Buzz will add a dimension to communicating that Twitter doesn’t have without using a side app… photo and video sharing.  Buzz will also allow you to add multiple images and allow your followers to flip through them like Picassa.

I think I’ll use Google Buzz but only for close friends and business friends. Twitter started out that way and it was a lot more fun. You could talk to folks and keep up with them. When you have thousands of followers, it’s almost impossible to get to know many of them very well.

To get to Google Buzz, you need only to head over your GMail account. Though it’s being rolled out to current users slowly, I’m guessing that it won’t be very long before everyone has the capability to participate.

It’s something new.

We all like new.

What the hell?

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