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Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Introduction to Open Graph Markup and Why It's Important For Social Sharing

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Introduction to Open Graph Markup and Why Its Important For Social Sharing daily-golden-nugget-1402-63
I've dissected a lot of websites that were not performing well, or produced completely unexpected results. One problem that seems to be appearing more and more is the inconsistent way that social networks are reading a web page and pulling information that you want to share. You see, you try sharing a link on Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and LinkedIn, and they will quickly spider the URL you are sharing and make suggestions for the images,...
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AT: 12/08/2015 12:08:23 PM   0 COMMENTS
Thursday, July 02, 2015

TBT: Structured Markup, Schema.org, and Recent Google Penalties

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TBT: Structured Markup, Schema.org, and Recent Google Penalties daily-golden-nugget-1289-62
A few days ago, Search Engine Land published an interesting article explaining how Google is penalizing websites that abuse the way they use schema.orgmarkup. That post was an interesting read for me and a good lead in for this edition of Throwback Thursday.

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AT: 07/02/2015 06:51:37 AM   0 COMMENTS
Thursday, April 14, 2011

Contact Us Page Killers

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The bottom line of today's Golden Nugget is:
Don't require JavaScript or Flash or Java to make your Contact Us form work. You are potentially missing out on a lot of visitors who may have tried to reach you, but couldn't because of technology limitations.

Why did we start this Nugget with the "bottom line?" Because the explanation is a little history lesson that might not interest you. Keep reading if you would like to have a well rounded understanding of why JavaScript/Flash/Java are all bad for your Contact Us form.

Every few days a new computerized device is released; new computers, new cell phones, new GPS, new portable gizmos of some type that can connect to the internet.

Even though the hardware changes, the underlying programming languages of the internet haven't changed much in several years.

Co...
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AT: 04/14/2011 02:00:14 PM   0 COMMENTS
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