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What Are Important Components of Technical SEO?

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It will also impact your ranking on search engines like Google as they know that slow pages provide a less than optimal user experience. It will also give your site a boost in search engine rankings. XML sitemaps are what web crawlers use to find and identify web pages to be indexed. Broken Images. Properly Formatted Sitemap.

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What is Structured Data & Schema for Websites & SEO?

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For business owners and even for many marketing consultants, search engine optimization can seem like a headache – especially when it comes to any level of technical SEO. In other words, structured data gives search engines another dimension of context for web page content. What does Structured Data do? The Three Schema Formats.

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How to Conduct a Technical SEO Audit

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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). The pages on your website can only be indexed if search engines can crawl them.

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Does Your New Year’s Resolution Include Reorganizing Your Data? Cross That Off The List Right Now!

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In the real world, downloading a search engine is a more realistic option to finding data. The Internet isn’t organized, but you can instantly find what you are looking for using an online search engine. A search engine can instantly search terabytes of your documents, emails, online data, etc.

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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.

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

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The semantic trend is to add standardized metadata to everything under the sun, think Twitter Annotations, RDFa, Linked Open Data Cloud, Data.gov, etc. This includes the semantic web, text analytics, natural language processing and reasoning engines. These two trends actually need to come together. Left brain search = Google.