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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

First Click Free (2008). The downside of this method—if you use AMP—is that the article can be read on Google’s AMP cache. Most of us have, at some point, cleared our cache or cookies to reset our metering on a site. Unless a requester is the real Googlebot, the content isn’t scrapable en masse. Accommodating AMP.

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Problems (For the Most Part) Resolved with wordpress and dreamhost

Software By Rob

After taking care of that I noticed that the wp-cache is locking the site up once every couple days. I now know how to correct it once the lock happens (clearing the cache), but I have yet to find a sustainable resolution. December 3rd, 2008 | About this Blog Building your startup? Check out my book Like this post?

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How I Blog

Duct Tape Marketing

In 2008 I got the wild idea to run my entire site, not just my blog, using WordPress and with each passing upgrade it seems to me that this is how every web site should be set up. W3Total Cache – dramatically improves speed and user experience in an under the hood kind of way.

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How to Analyze SERPs to Win Big in Rankings

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But a slightly different version of that search, “why does my SEO suck,” returns a Moz article from 2008, and a “People also ask” box shows up. Consider lazy loading, browser caching, and/or a CDN. The first result is an SEO agency (My SEO Sucks), and no featured snippet shows up. Decrease the file size of your images.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. For example, you might notice that caching gets a lot easier if you have good metadat about which queries are associated with the same entity. This is a good summary and very useful data layer scaling approach.

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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 5, 2008 Great open source scalability tools from Danga If you are trying to build a scalable LAMP service, its always best to start with the original and still quite relevant presentation, from Brad Fitzpatrick when he was at LiveJournal. You can find the 2005 version here.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Startup Lessons Learned

The longer you wait to find out about the problem, the more likely it is to have fallen out of the human-memory cache. Now, continuous deployment is not the only possible way to solve these kinds of problems. In another post I really enjoyed, Timothy explains five other non-solutions that seem like they will help, but really wont.