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How to Conduct a Technical SEO Audit

ConversionXL

Identifying and merging content targeting the same or similar keywords; Removing duplicate content that dilutes importance, and; Improving metadata so that users see what they’re looking for in search engine results pages (SERPs). It’s all about helping Google understand your website better so that pages show up for the right searches.

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

Austin Startup

The semantic trend is to add standardized metadata to everything under the sun, think Twitter Annotations, RDFa, Linked Open Data Cloud, Data.gov, etc. is admittedly an ill-defined term, but there’s general agreement that it represents numerous technologies that will make the web “smarter.&# Left brain search = Google.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

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Rails allows XML documents to include YAML attributes. That decision has caused a bit of head scratching, since it seems like a curious choice for most programmers in the community, but be that as it may this allowed posting XML at Rails apps to be trivially exploited. Rubygems used YAML to hold metadata about each gem submitted to it.

Security 101