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

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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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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. You can assess your ability to rank by looking at two primary metrics: Domain-level link metrics like Moz Domain Authority or Ahrefs Domain Rating (DR). Create an image sitemap.

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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. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Expo (and a call for he.

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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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Cracking The Code: iPhone, Apple TV and more from Mac World

Cracking the Code

And it is true that the current version of the iPhone is a fantastic consumer product, but the key business feature (push e-mail and calendar) are not there yet: the iPhone will support yahoo push e-mails, but not Outlook (only cache and carry). 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 ► 2008. (11). Happy New Year 2008!

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) Working for or started something in 2008 that may or may not make it. I get frustrated with not knowing what to click on in Server 2008 to make it do something.

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