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DoubleClick is a provider of digital marketing technology and services. Companies come to DoubleClick for expertise in ad serving, media, video, search and affiliate marketing to help them make the most of the digital medium.

Amazon's affiliate marketing service

CJ Affiliate by Conversant (formerly Commission Junction) is a leading global affiliate marketing network, specializing in pay-for-performance programs to drive results. The Conversant network helps to create connections amid millions of online consumers daily by facilitating equitable, lucrative relationships between advertiser...

Unified Advertising and Analytics solutions from Google

Google Analytics is a service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about a website's traffic and traffic sources and measures conversions and sales. Google Analytics can track visitors from all referrers, including search engines and social networks, direct visits and referring sites. It also displays advertisin...

Wordpress SEO Plugin

A simple library that provides standard Unicode emoji support across all platforms.

Recruiting Software and Applicant Tracking

Websites using Google technologies

Websites using Amazon technologies

Carousel JavaScript solution

Polyfill is a service which accepts a request for a set of browser features and returns only the polyfills that are needed by the requesting browser.

jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library.

Google Tag Manager makes it easy for marketers to add and update website tags including analytics, remarketing, and more.

Google APIs are application programming interfaces developed by Google which allow communication with Google Services and their integration to other services.

This site uses the viewport meta tag which means the content may be optimized for mobile content.

A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.

Disqus is a networked community platform, reaching over 900 million people a month, 1.8 million registered communities, and over 300M active commenters. The service offers a networked comment system used to foster engagement and connect audiences from around the web. Disqus looks to make it very easy and rewarding for people ...

Embedded videos from YouTube.

Websites with links to podcasts hosted on SimpleCast

Podcast hosting service

Website using Instagram integrations or links.

Website with links to Instagram profiles or pictures

nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.

WP Engine provides WordPress hosting for demanding business owners and bloggers.

Previously Google Apps for Business. G Suite is a cloud-based productivity suite that helps you and your team connect and get work done from anywhere on any device. It's simple to setup, use and manage, allowing you to work smarter and focus on what really matters.

Track Your Results. Get the stats on your campaigns and subscribers, so you can improve your content every time you send, and tailor your newsletters to your ...

Windows Live Writer Tagging Support Schema

Really Simple Discovery is a way to help client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.

A family of standard web feed formats used to publish frequently updated information like blog entries, news headlines, audio and video.

Website using the £ symbol on their website - meaning it may accept payment in this British currency.

iDEAL is a payment method made up of a collection of agreements and standards for an immediate online transfer from a purchaser’s bank account to the bank account of a webshop or organisation.

Allows a website to define how a page is rendered in Internet Explorer 8, allowing a website to decide to use IE7 style rendering over IE8 rendering.

Websites using https protocol.

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

Websites with FAQ page

The website contains Adobe Flash content embeded without the use of JavaScript.

The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph, a open protocol supported by Facebook

This page contains a meta robots tag which tells search engines and robots to index or not index the page.

Meta descriptions are HTML attributes that provide concise explanations of the contents of web pages. Meta descriptions are commonly used on search engine result pages (SERPs) to display preview snippets for a given page.

The http-equiv attribute provides an HTTP header for the information/value of the content attribute. The http-equiv attribute can be used to simulate an HTTP response header.

A canonical link element is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues by specifying the "canonical", or "preferred".

Google's hosted library for web fonts. Allows websites to choose and use fonts from a free, wide variety of fonts.

UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.