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Building a New Kind of Cruise Community

Waxing UnLyrical

I love to cruise, but it’s frustrating that there’s no site or app to help me discover the wide assortment of cruises that are a good match for my travel style and budget – and to help me book the right voyage to the right destinations. For me this is as much a cause as it is a business play. Assumption 4: Don’t be overly salesy.

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How to Optimize Your Content for Authorship Success

ProBlogger

Convince and Convert suggests that the sweet spot of curation (non self-promotional) vs. self-promotional linking to your site 25-50% of the time generates the best results. Always socialize the content you produce, but make sure to include a healthy mix of re-Tweets of informative, inspiring, and relevant content.

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Old-Fashioned Organic SEO Wins the Day After Google Penguin Update

Bare Feet Studios

We have always aimed for best practices: in the code (lean and clean), in the content (direct, honest, informative), in the design (clean user interface, ease of use), and in optimizing for search results. After all, who cares about your site if no one can find it? Most sites start at a 0-2 ( Google loves WordPress! )

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Everything You Need To Know While Building A Website

BeingOptimist

Choosing a domain name related to the business will help to increase traffic as people will associate the business with the site. Ensure that you choose something that matches the brand identity and stands out from other sites on search engines like Google and Bing. Content Management System (CMS) like WordPress.

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How to Optimize Your Blog Posts for SEO: an Easy-Peasy Guide

Writtent Blog

In Blogger, WordPress, HubSpot and many other content management systems, your blog title will do dual duty as your page title. While some degree of bounce is normal, an incredibly high bounce rate can indicate low-quality content, deceptive titles, poor user experience, and any other number of ills to search engines.

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eLearning & Deliberative Moments: The present and future of Personal Learning Environments (PLE)

Buzz Marketing for Technology

PLEs are meant to simplify managing these artefacts, creating meaning through aggregation, linking and metadata tagging (eg comments, keywords). On the other hand, in Europe more sites use inhouse and open source implementations (Vuorikari, 2003). Most ePortfolios are intended for document management, retrieval and presentation.

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Computer Security for NGOs

Little Web Giants

They may deliberately attempt to gather data on known individuals, but many also collect mass data indiscriminately in the form of metadata. Metadata is sometimes described as “data about data” – for example, the metadata from an email might include the subject line, sender, recipient and date and time it was sent.