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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

Search engines are vital for discoverability. Google’s Public Search Liaison Danny Sullivan has openly pushed back against those who want subscription-only content flagged in search results: Our automated systems try to present the best information in relation to a search topic, as people expect us to do as a search engine.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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Transcript of Crafting Growth-Focused Content for Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

” I bought a book called Teach Yourself HTML in 24 Hours, and I didn’t realize that that meant like 24 days of one-hour sessions maybe. Like that was the first time you could use templates because otherwise you were coding in straight up HTML in text editor. Have you thought about that?” What’s up with Nectafy?

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Progressive Web Apps: What Do Marketers Need to Know?

ConversionXL

It’s web because it’s written in the languages of the Web—HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—instead of in some domain-specific language or in a native framework captive to one platform. AMPs are lightweight HTML pages designed to load as fast as possible. As with any website, PWAs have URLs and can be crawled and indexed by the search engines.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Don’t Stop Believing. Social Networking in Web 1.0: GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo!

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Bridging the Gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW

Austin Startup

Just as users don’t handcode HTML today, users can reap the benefits of SemWeb tech without having to learn all about it. This includes the semantic web, text analytics, natural language processing and reasoning engines. In Drupal 7, you can pull specific information, on the fly, from sites across the Web. Left brain search = Google.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Cheat Sheets : Equip youself with HTML/CSS cheatsheets! s helpful to find an developer tool that allows you to write html/css and renders the view in real time, so you donâ?? Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Phonegap  / Appcelerator (Titanium)  : Write mobile apps with HTML/CSS/Javascript.