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Alt Text
Alt Text is used to describe images on your website. This relates mainly to accessibility issues on websites. If images on your site fail to load, the alt text can still be displayed that will provide visual context for the user.
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Mobile First
Most web traffic on the internet is now from mobile devices. Mobile First refers to a design philosophy that prioritizes a website’s mobile view first, rather than desktop or tablet views. All need to be completed for a website to be fully functional, but this prioritizes the view that a majority of users will see.
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301 Redirect
301 redirect refers to a code sent by a website’s hosting server to a browser. In practice, it means you’ll get redirected to a new page when you input the old URL.
For website administrators, 301 redirects shouldn’t be used in excess, but can be a good way to deliver relevant pages to users when the original page has been removed or the content has been merged into another page.
From an SEO perspective, the old page’s ranking will transfer to the new page.
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Nofollow
A backlink that carries the “nofollow” HTML tag. This indicates to search engines that should not count as a vote of quality for that site.
Some sites, particularly those with user-generated content, will mark all of their backlinks as nofollow, to avoid abuse of their content systems to generate backlink SEO value for third-party websites.
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