Avoid splash and Flash menus – they make look nice but search engines struggle to read their content/embedded text. Ensure your copy and content says what you need it say in an easily digestible format.
Flash/Ajax issues. Micro-format optimization. Or does it refer to the sum of the different parts of the campaign? Or rather does it refer to how we are going to prioritize resources or even prioritize SEO opportunities?
Flash might be great for regular websites, but too much animation can have a major effect on load times. Not to mention the fact that Apple products do not support Flash at all - a big deal considering the iPhone is 30 percent of the smartphone...
Ensure that your drop-down menus aren't built using JavaScript, Flash, or JQuery but rather that they are built using CSS. Extra Bonus Recommendation: Avoid Flash Small Flash elements can be useful in augmenting the appearance of a website, but...
Flash forward a few years, give them some of that requested time to collect user data, grab some market share, and tweak their algorithms, and it turns out he was right. The biggest threat to Google right now is that if they come up with either a...
As the Googlebot gets better at understanding dynamic page elements, JavaScript and Flash will become safer for designers to use. As first noted by Digital Inspiration, the Googlebot seems to have picked up a neat trick: the ability to index the...
The download tool will only give you your video in Flash Video (flv) format. Unfortunately, you won't be able to download the content in the original format you uploaded. Over the weekend, Google sent an email to Google Video users announcing that...
The patent would make Apple's war against flash technology more difficult. Adobe has filed for a patent that would enable search engines to crawl rich media format through an annotation-based system. An overview of some of today's search, ad, tech...
Usually they are powered by Flash, which can accommodate animation and video, and they are often interruptive and designed to be attention grabbing. Downward pressure on CPM rates as the display ad format conversion rate is continually eroding.
For instance, if your site contains a directory of Flash games, you should not format the ads to mimic the game descriptions. Google announced the launch of extensive changes to their ad formats last week.
Facebook is experimenting with some ads; it's not going the route of MySpace [with Flash-based ads”. Sites such as Facebook and MySpace have experimented, though the right format hasn't been borne out.
Flash, Generic Flash (Generic): Macromedia’s vector-based authoring tool that outputs file formats used to display interactive elements. Requires a plug-in (Flash Player). Generic Flash (Shockwave Formats - .swf) files used for standard Flash banners.
Flash, Generic Flash (Generic): Macromedia’s vector-based authoring tool that outputs file formats used to display interactive elements. Requires a plug-in (Flash Player). Generic Flash (Shockwave Formats - .swf) files used for standard Flash banners.
Image/Flash ad Specifically, the Adwords team has published an online ad format guide. The SEO community has been a-buzz lately about standards. There's the epic conversation going on about SEO standards.
Flash, Generic Flash (Generic): Macromedia’s vector-based authoring tool that outputs file formats used to display interactive elements. Requires a plug-in (Flash Player). Generic Flash (Shockwave Formats - .swf) files used for standard Flash banners.
More difficult, less widespread tactics would include the various ways to label images and other non-text content, and "workarounds" for Flash or rich Internet applications. The format of the document could be wiki-style with limited editing access.
Flash, Generic Flash (Generic): Macromedia’s vector-based authoring tool that outputs file formats used to display interactive elements. Requires a plug-in (Flash Player). Generic Flash (Shockwave Formats - .swf) files used for standard Flash banners.
Flash, Generic Flash (Generic): Macromedia’s vector-based authoring tool that outputs file formats used to display interactive elements. Requires a plug-in (Flash Player). Generic Flash (Shockwave Formats - .swf) files used for standard Flash banners.
Flash, Generic Flash (Generic): Macromedia’s vector-based authoring tool that outputs file formats used to display interactive elements. Requires a plug-in (Flash Player). Generic Flash (Shockwave Formats - .swf) files used for standard Flash banners.
Flash, Generic Flash (Generic): Macromedia’s vector-based authoring tool that outputs file formats used to display interactive elements. Requires a plug-in (Flash Player). Generic Flash (Shockwave Formats - .swf) files used for standard Flash banners.