Google Now Crawling And Indexing Flash Content

Historically, search engines have been unable to extract content, such as text and links, from Flash (SWF) files. Subsequently, much of the Flash-based content on the web has been unavailable in search results. This situation has been frustrating for web developers, who have tried to come up with workarounds ...
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Jul. 1, 2008 at 12:00am Eastern by Vanessa Fox

Don't Expect A Magic Flash Solution For Search Engines

... manager of crawl services Dan Crow, I can't help but feel people are going to come away with the mistaken idea that Google will magically make their Flash content suddenly more accessible to Google's crawlers. That ain't going to happen. Interview: Google's Dan Crow is the article, and in it, we're ...

Mar. 27, 2007 at 10:38am Eastern by Danny Sullivan

How Flash Can Be Search Engine Friendly

For a long time there has been a tug of war between developers and designers who love to use Flash and SEOs who know how bad Flash can be from a search engine crawler perspective. The designer wants the beauty of an all Flash site. The SEO wants to bring the site traffic. It's a tough situation, but ...

Apr. 11, 2008 at 10:11am Eastern by Eric Enge

Diagnosing The SEO Health Of Your Website

... a completely blank page, chances are that it's actually one giant graphic (or a series of multiple graphics), or the page is completely embedded in Flash. If it's just missing portions of text, the missing text is probably not coded in HTML, but is instead a graphical image of text. Since the search ...
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Apr. 24, 2008 at 8:57am Eastern by Jill Whalen

Meta Keywords Tag 101: How To "Legally" Hide Words On Your Pages For Search Engines

, this is indeed an xml requirement for sites which have specified xhtml as the html version in the DOCTYPE statement at the top of a page. Other common tags which need this closure include IMG, BR and HR. I work with a company that is soooo anal on these tags. Before I came in I never put any serious ...
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Sep. 5, 2007 at 7:42pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

SEO "Don'ts": 20 Fatal Mistakes You Must Avoid To Succeed

... having session IDs or too many variables in your URLs, using a convoluted navigation menu that spiders can't (or won't) follow, or developing an all-Flash, all-graphic, or all-AJAX site. 8. Don't target overly general keywords. A real estate agency in Wichita has no shot at ranking for the phrase " ...
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Jun. 21, 2007 at 3:03pm Eastern by Matt McGee

Super Tuesday, Internet Style: How We're Using The Web In The 2008 Elections

... Obama has the number one listing for his name (after the book and news results, but above the Wikipedia listing!), but his home page is entirely in Flash. Hillary Clinton also has the first result (after the news listing) and her home page has some content, although if you turn off images and javascript ...

Feb. 5, 2008 at 7:07pm Eastern by Vanessa Fox

Google Analytics Adds Site Search Reporting & Event Tracking; Urchin Software Also Updated

... tracking allows webmasters to measure visitor engagement with a site's interactive elements. You can track user interactions with AJAX, JavaScript, Flash movies, page gadgets, downloads, and other multimedia Web 2.0 experiences. Google also announced a limited worldwide beta of a new version of Urchin ...

Oct. 16, 2007 at 12:00pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 7, 2007

... Sign Of The Future of Search, It’s The ROI Google KILLS Vanessa Fox, David Naylor Which Is Better For SEO: Shared or Dedicated IPs, Bruceclay.com Flash Implementation Tips, Ramblings About SEO SEO Clinic : TechSmith Screen Capture & Recording Software, Search Engine Journal How Does 6 SEOs Miss ...

Mar. 7, 2007 at 4:06pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

The Search Engine Unfriendliness Of Web 2.0

Wouldn't it be great if all those whiz-bang Web 2.0 interactive elements based on AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and Flash—such as widgets and gadgets and Google Maps mashups— were search engine optimal? Unfortunately, that's not the case. In fact, these technologies are ...
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Oct. 18, 2007 at 7:46am Eastern by Stephan Spencer