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Among the criterias for ranking of World’s Universities by Webometrics, we find Google Scholar and link visibility. You even find a warning against using black hat SEO – “The use of link farms and paid backlinks to improve the position in our Webometrics Rankings is not aceptable as this is a non academic practice and it is contrary to the aims of this Ranking.”

The whole ranking systme, comes close to suggesting we can evaluate the quality of Universities based on their Google pagerank.

Ranking of World’s Universities by Webometrics

Ranking of Danish Universities be Webometrics

Dan Ackerman Greenberg has written an excellent post on, how to make your video go viral, and pointers as to how to track the succes of your viral video.

• Blogs: We reach out to individuals who run relevant blogs and actually pay them to post our embedded videos. Sounds a little bit like cheating/PayPerPost, but it’s effective and it’s not against any rules.
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How many Wikipedians does it take to Change a Light Bulb?

1 User to start the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changing_a_Light_Bulb article.
1 editor immediately deletes the article because it is auto-biographical.
1 “anonymous” user to start the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changing_a_Light_Bulb article (We don’t count him – since he is of course the original user).
1 editor to tag it with the “No original research” template (Without giving a reason).
1 editor to claim the article is nonsense (Without giving a reason).
1 editor to claim this content is commercial (Without giving a reason).
1 editor to claim it violates the wikipedia “Neutral Point of View policy” (Without giving a reason).
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• How Cisco Tried to Make Routers Sexy Using Social Media – ReadWriteWeb

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  • A marketing strategy plan – post by madsgorm
  • 1. Created a fun micro site directed at uber users (the tech and … Continue Reading

Try the 10 year old Google, search for your own name, and see what the Internet had to say about you 10 years ago!It can be embarrassing!http://www.google.com/search2001.html