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12 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website

YoungUpstarts

Titles and metadata. Research target keyword phrases, then optimize your metadata (page title tag, meta description, and meta keywords) as well as your copy with at least one keyword per page. Uploading photos that are too large causes a web page to load slowly, which can impact whether or not a visitor stays on the page.

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Voila, A Simple But Feature-Rich Screen Capture And Annotating Tool

YoungUpstarts

Say you’re a Mac user and need video recording, image capturing and annotating software – perhaps you simply need something nifty to manipulate videos and pictures for Web use - but unwilling to shell out the dough for Adobe’s full Creative Cloud suite, you may want to consider Voila by software developer Global Delight.

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10 Reasons Why Traffic to Your Small Business Website is Dropping

Up and Running

If you see a significant dip in your web rankings, it could be the cause of an algorithmic update. This update was designed to detect web spam and reduce shady links, in turn, encouraging high-quality content for users. NGINX: Check this blog on the NGINX website about Creating NGINX Rewrite Rules. Algorithm updates and trends.

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What’s Included in a Perfectly Optimized Homepage?

Duct Tape Marketing

Switching to HTTPS is simple , and most web hosting platforms will do it at little or no cost for existing customers. If your site isn’t loading as quickly as you’d hoped, talk to your web developer about strategies to increase the speed. The Right Metadata. Fast Load Time. Crawlable Content.

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

Austin Startup

Personally, I believe that the Semantic Web will become mainstream in the next few years (I actually have a bet on this with some college friends). After reading the wonderful blogpost on the BBC’s dynamic semantic publishing system , it reminded me that the Semantic Web has two audiences: the common web user (my mom) and developers.

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The Best Programming Languages for Digital Marketers

ConversionXL

Other use cases include diverse, data-heavy tasks such as querying the metadata from 1 billion taxi rides or back-end monitoring of analytics for real-time fraud detection. Best at : implementing tracking codes; every kind of web-development solution. started to learn JavaScript with the kind help of a mentor from the web team.

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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.