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Search Intent: How to Analyze and Optimize Your Site

ConversionXL

For sustainable, valuable search traffic, you’d better provide it. Satisfying search intent is Google’s fundamental goal. Proxies like backlinks and keywords have long been—and still are—stand-ins for the likelihood that a web page will satisfy user intent. How Google (and others) define search intent. Image source ).

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3 Tips To Help Small Businesses Get More Customers In A Post-Google Search World

YoungUpstarts

Because of the explosion of social media and mobile as the primary, go-to consumer device for local information, Google is increasingly losing search share to local directories, social media sites and maps apps. is one of the most critical local search ranking factors in Google and Maps. Want to know where you stand now?

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Search: Not Provided: What Remains, Keyword Data Options, the Future

Occam's Razor

In late 2011, Google announced an effort to make search behavior more secure. This encrypted their search queries from any prying eyes, and kept from being passed on to websites the users visits after seeing search results. In this post I want to share four angles on secure search: 1. want to protect user privacy.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. There doesn’t exist a web search API that has access to page content, parsed outlinks from the page, or even edit history.

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How Aggregation Can Greatly Enhance Your Business

YoungUpstarts

This is where content aggregation can prove to be enormously beneficial. By making the switch from manual content creation to aggregation, you’ll be able to simplify the process, while also speeding it up significantly. First and foremost, you should familiarize yourself with the basic understanding of content aggregation.

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What will discovery look like in Web 3.0?

Version One Ventures

The initial discovery layer of the Web 1.0 As the web matured and scaled, two new and more web-native paradigms emerged: search and social. As the Internet is starting to evolve into Web 3.0, Right now, most of the discovery in Web 3.0 is driven by Web 2.0 And another approach to discovery in Web 3.0

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The Optimizer’s Guide to Web Accessibility

ConversionXL

That’s where web accessibility comes in, opening you up to conversion opportunities you didn’t even know you were missing out on. What is web accessibility? Web accessibility is the practice of removing barriers that prevent people with disabilities from accessing and interacting with sites. of people in the U.S.

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