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How does Microdata rdfa compare to JSON-LD?

The bottom of the Wikipedia "talk" page says that Microdata is dead, and superseded by rdfa and json-ld. What is the difference between the formats (or value), and which one should be used? I'm mostly interested in SEO for Google Shopping, and…
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Why is semantic markup given more weight for search engines?

This question follows directly from the part of an answer of this question - Why would one bother marking up properly and semantically? . I would like to understand why SEO techniques gives more weight to semantically correct mark up?
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What are the benefits of archiving?

I always see sites that only keeps fresh content on the home or subsections, and the rest of the content is kept in a separate section called 'archive'. Recently I have also heard that NoSQL DB's like MongoDB are good for archiving (which makes me…
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Web design standards

While designing web pages using php, are there standards that should be followed? For example suppose there are two pages. First page looks like this:
page2.php file looks like this:
Sanket Raut
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Is dynamic HTML layout good from an SEO perspective?

Just wondering whether dynamically built HTML layout is fine from SEO perspectives? So let's assume e-commerce engine and its most popular page - products catalog. So 90% of the page is built using AJAX and MVVM library knockoutjs which builds HTML…
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Google review microformats, microdata, RDFa, oh my!

I'm developing a website which includes a section for reviews. I want to include Google's microformat for review information so that details of the review show up in Google's snippet thingy, like this: However, according this page, Google supports…
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Should I implement slugs with my already fairly long URLs?

I'm considering implementing slugs in my blog. My blog uses MongoDB. One of the side-effects of using MongoDB is that it uses relatively long hex string IDs. Example before: http://lastyearswishes.com/blog/view/5070f025d1f1a5760fdfafac after:…
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Does heavy JavaScript use adversely impact Googleability?

I've been developing the client-side for my web-app in JavaScript. The JavaScript can communicate with my server over REST (HTTP)[JSON, XML, CSV] or RPC (XML, JSON). I'm writing writing this decoupled client in order to use the same code for both my…
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Should we still care about _escaped_fragment_ and alternate HTML generation for Single Page Applications?

A few months ago I started a project, which will have two parts – business client overview panel (AngularJS SPA) and public front-end (dynamic HTML with progressive enchancements via XHR). I'd really like to stop and throw away dynamic HTML and…
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Should we use JavaScript and CGI variables to weed out bots from our visitor reports?

I am using ColdFusion 8 and jQuery 1.7. ** This is a programming question, because the solution I am questioning requires programming. It may not be the right solution to the problem, but if it is, then I need to figure out how to best program the…
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How to mark up structured data that is visible upon click with microdata

I have a site that lists several items per page. When the user clicks he can see each item's prices (a list of about 10-20). They are not visible at first because the page will be very long. I want to tag them with the offers schema.org microdata…
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How do I ensure my site will be crawled when articles are generated by the database?

I wasn't sure how to ask the question. But basically, it's a textbook scenario. I'm working on a site that's article based, but the article information is stored in a database. Then the page is rendered with the information in the database based on…
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How can I get my website's search results into Google's search results?

All I can find online is stuff about search result rankings, which I'm not concerned with at the moment. We're going to have a cloud-based online database and we want Google search results for something relevant to our site to display our website's…
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SEO for AJAX based website

My question is that we have a completely ajax based website: http://news.swalif.com/. Now we want to get all the 'pages' crawled by Google and other search engines, but we do not want to move to a PHP based solution or make an archive. I would like…
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MPA vs SPA for first-load performance & meta tags?

Let there be a static web application. Let the following be a priority: First loading time (ignore cache etc) User experience Search Engine Optimization (meta tags & bot friendliness) When writing a web application, there are two broad…
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