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

ConversionXL

But not all of our web pages need to rank. If there’s a page with low quality or out of date content, it’s unlikely to convert visitors and can hurt your reputation according to Google and other search engines.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.

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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. What is SEO ?

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Building Competency in Semantic Web Technology

semanticuniverse.com

Web technologies need to be accessible to non-technical people as well as technical people. Among techies, the Semantic Web bears some similarity to a number of common technologies, including relational databases, XML, and Object-Oriented design. Many database engineers have gone so far as to invent RDF in one form or another.

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

Austin Startup

is admittedly an ill-defined term, but there’s general agreement that it represents numerous technologies that will make the web “smarter.&# This includes the semantic web, text analytics, natural language processing and reasoning engines. RDFa, Microdata and Microformats: Gateway Drugs to the Semantic Web.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

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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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

page, can -- despite the occasional new release from Adobe -- be considered a dead language, with all that this entails (difficulty finding and retaining good developers, vendor lock-in, horrendous cost, poor support, porting nightmares, infrastructure constraints). XML sitemap. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited.