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Improving LinkedIn Publish Performance by Caching Images Server-Side

The devlog-ist/landing project focuses on creating landing pages. Recently, we tackled a performance bottleneck during the LinkedIn publishing process. The issue arose from sending large base64 encoded images directly within the publish request, leading to 413 errors from Nginx due to exceeding the maximum request size.

The Problem

LinkedIn's API has limits on request size. Sending a

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Independent Control for LinkedIn Post Generation

When developing tools for content generation, flexibility is key. A recent update to the devlog-ist/landing project focuses on providing more granular control over how content is generated for different platforms. Specifically, we've decoupled the random mode setting for LinkedIn from the portfolio's random mode.

The Problem: One Size Doesn't Fit All

Previously, a single "random mode"

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Enhancing SEO with Structured Data and Robots.txt Optimization

Improving a website's visibility to search engines often involves a combination of structured data implementation and proper handling of robots.txt. This post details how structured data was added to a landing page and blog posts, and how a dynamic robots.txt file generation was replaced with a static one for better performance.

Implementing JSON-LD Structured Data

Structured data helps

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Enhancements to Referral Program, Dev.to Integration, and Terms Update

Overview

This update introduces an enhanced referral program with tiered commissions, seamless Dev.to integration, and updated terms and conditions to reflect these changes.

Referral Program Enhancements

The referral program has been expanded with the addition of a dedicated landing page, complete with details about the program, commission rates, and automated tools.

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Enhancing Content Discoverability for AI

Making content easily discoverable for AI search engines is crucial for broader reach. Here's how we improved the accessibility of our tenant portfolio content.

The Goal

Our primary objective was to enable AI search engines to easily discover and consume tenant portfolio content. This involved providing machine-readable endpoints that expose content in a structured and easily parsable manner.

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