bradstrickland.com - Web Design, Development and Apple. » SEO http://www.bradstrickland.com Web Design, Development and Apple Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:34:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Search engine optimization for Flash http://www.bradstrickland.com/2009/09/search-engine-optimization-for-flash/ http://www.bradstrickland.com/2009/09/search-engine-optimization-for-flash/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:57:10 +0000 brad_strickland http://www.bradstrickland.com/?p=444 I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for Flash. Flash came along at a time when web development felt very restrictive for a creative person. Now in a world where web standards are spoken as gospel. Flash seems to have less and less of a role to play. Its biggest obstacle is the lack of good SEO optimization. Adobe, Google and Yahoo have been working to change that. As described in the below article excerpt.

This article contains excerpts from Search Engine Optimization for Flash, which dispels the myth that SWF-based websites won’t show up in a web search by demonstrating exactly what you can do to make your site fully searchable. You’ll learn best practices for using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—as well as SWFObject—for building sites with SWF content that will stand tall in search rankings.

Check out the article in its entirety at Adobe’s Developer connection.

]]> http://www.bradstrickland.com/2009/09/search-engine-optimization-for-flash/feed/ 0 Google learns to crawl Flash http://www.bradstrickland.com/2008/07/google-learns-to-crawl-flash/ http://www.bradstrickland.com/2008/07/google-learns-to-crawl-flash/#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:46:52 +0000 admin http://www.bradstrickland.com/2008/07/01/google-learns-to-crawl-flash/ Oh Glorious Day! The geniuses at google have finally figured out how to crawl flash content. What does this mean?? It means that all those flash sites out there that have low google rankings because their text information could not be crawled and indexed. Will now take there place as first class netizens. Here is a article blurb from the google blog.

Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, we’ve improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe’s Flash Player technology.

To read the whole post. Click Here.

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