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5 Things to Compare When Choosing an eCommerce Platform

Up and Running

Plain and simple, if you want to enter any aspect of the online business world, you are going to need a surface level understanding of search engine optimization—at the very least. To put it simply, it’s everything that goes into making sure your site is visible to search engines like Google. The name of the game here is simplicity.

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What is Structured Data & Schema for Websites & SEO?

Duct Tape Marketing

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?

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

in it and that flimsy name-dropping “Blockchain Revolution” book was being published [fyi, that book is garbage], the African-American community has already been quietly working on blockchain/DLT technology and here is where this wonderful article begins. Stuff CNBC and other media outlets don’t want to acknowledge.

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4 Advanced Meta Tags For SEO You Might Not Be Using But Should

ConversionXL

Robots (<meta name= “robots”>) . If there’s a page with low quality or out of date content, it’s unlikely to convert visitors and can hurt your reputation according to Google and other search engines. Make sure you add your xml sitemap to the robots.txt file so Google’s crawlers easily find it. How to add the robots tag.

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How to Scale Organic Traffic (Without Writing a Million Blog Posts)

ConversionXL

In each case, an extension to the existing solution was shipped in a search engine–friendly way and now drives a lot of organic traffic, while also improving the product. At G2 , for example, we learned that a query syntax like “free [software name]” can’t be solved with a filter on a category page. Quora Spaces. Twitter moments.

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How to Hire for Sweat Equity…

www.drowningamerican.com

Application programming Expertise: PHP, ColdFusion, AJAX, Web Services (RSS, REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, etc.). Build a team – we have plans to hire at a minimum 2 more engineers once funded with many more to follow and you will be hand selecting your team. Quick question: How did you decide on 3-5% equity for the first engineer hire?

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How to Analyze SERPs to Win Big in Rankings

ConversionXL

This makes it clear to search engines what the page is about and, as a result, more relevant to people searching for “straight line depreciation.”. Are the answers clearly defined so that search engines can find them? Build local citations (with a consistent name, phone, and address). People Also Ask (PAA) boxes. Conclusion.

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