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Bondy Blog | Le Bondy Blog Meta Description Optimization: Writing Effective Meta Descriptions for SEO On the heels of last week’s article on Title Tag Optimization for SEO, I’d like to cover another important aspect to optimizing websites to place well in the SERPs – Meta Descriptions. A Quick Background on Meta Tags Meta tags in general have been a very controversial topic over the years in the SEO industry, and rightly so. In the early days of SEO, search engine optimizers and many webmasters used the Meta Keywords tag as a platform to stuff as many target keywords into a page as possible – whether they were relevant or not. The problem is that people were abusing the use of this tag and many pages that shouldn’t have been ranking well were taking top positions for keywords they had no business showing up for. And so – like the dinosaurs – the use of Meta Keywords as an effective SEO strategy has died out. It is the Meta Description tag. What is a Meta Description? The Meta Description tag is typically a sentence or two of content which describes the content of a particular webpage. 1.

Muck Rack - Journalists on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and social media Site d'information français d'actualités indépendant et participatif en ligne Accept-Encoding, It's Vary important. » MaxCDN Blog One of the best things about running BootstrapCDN are the new things I've learned about web performance. Today, I'd like to share a few insights gained while resolving an issue originally brought up by a peer. The concern was to include the Vary: Accept-Encoding header -- it's not on every server response, but it should be. When browsers make a request, they include HTTP headers for the server to decide what to send back (Is this a mobile client? That's great for direct access, but modern networks use intermediate caches and CDNs. Vary to the rescue. For example, if a server sends the Vary: User-Agent header, intermediate caches will store a separate cache entry for each User-Agent they see (every OS + browser combination, yikes). Well, the BootstrapCDN issue came up, so I decided to give Vary another look. There had to be a good reason, so I asked SO. "Like Kyle said... just replace "client" with a "upstream proxy" (isp, corporate network, etc). Apache/.htaccess Nginx

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Your Web, documented · WebPlatform.org youthjournalism Le ravi, mensuel satirique de la région PACA HTML5 for the Mobile Web - Forms and Input Types In this article we take a look at some of the new form enhancements available in HTML5, and look at how they contribute to an improved user experience for mobile forms. In particular we will see how forms can be enhanced with the additional input types offered by HTML5, and show what you can expect across various classes of mobile browser. HTML5 Input Types HTML5 has a bunch of new input types for forms. In the following sections, we take a look at some of the more interesting ones, such as color, date, email, range, tel, which have fairly obvious application to mobile devices. Input type color When supported, using this input type will trigger a colour-picker on the client device. Usage: Try it: Depending on your browser, a text field, or a colour-input field may be displayed below. Color input as implemented on Opera Mobile, and Chrome browsers on Android Browser support and fallbacks When not supported, a simple text field is displayed. Input type date Try it: Input type email Input type tel

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