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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. Social media icons. Professionalisms Nikole Haiar web development website'

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10 Reasons Why Traffic to Your Small Business Website is Dropping

Up and Running

Check that the code is working properly, and if needed, contact your web developer or SEO specialist to have them check it for you. Broken redirects could be the cause of your ranking drops, especially if you just launched a new website or migrated to a new server. Failed redirects. Server overload. Keep calm and optimize.

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A Quick Guide To Making Your Website Stand Out Online

YoungUpstarts

Use content, metadata, and link building techniques to get Google’s attention, and prove your worth. Content and social media. Content and social media is the best possible method of website promotion for new website owners. Focus your energy on just one social media platform to start with.

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What’s the Difference Between Small Business and Large Enterprise SEO?

Duct Tape Marketing

But when it comes to actually optimizing content with those keywords, this means selecting a focus keyword and including it in all the key areas of your content: metadata, header tags, URL slug, and image alt tags. Mobile friendliness: Websites can no longer consider mobile friendliness optional. It needs to be responsive.

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

Austin Startup

John De Oliveira – Hoovers/Semantic Web Austin. The social web isn’t just for the marketing department anymore. The trend for social networks (Facebook, Twitter, etc) is to expose their graph interfaces so new applications can automatically inspect and bring new value to undiscovered social patterns.

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Startup Resources

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s easier to use/develop with. Rovi : Need Metadata for music/movie/actors, etc.? Rdio : Want to add a music player on your website to play music? Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t Social Media Tracking/Marketing. IE Developer Toolbar (for ie6 & ie7). Leaflet : Need Maps?