Don’t let the designer use the word “Flash” during your call(s). A site redesign gives you the opportunity to re-code, condense externally referenced files, and achieve faster load times. Be mindful of folder structure as well as relevant, keyword...
If we flash back to the “Wild West days” of SEO, content keyword stuffing and keyword density targeting were all the rage. Let's flash back to the example of the online tech training company. If I see that many bloggers are covering the issues with...
Evaluate image assets, PDF files, flash files, etc for crawlability and SEO implementation. Which anchor text is used? Competition in search engine optimization (SEO) will be composed of both the traditional organizations that vie for business in...
You can check out statistics on the page components (e.g.js files, .css files, Flash files, etc.to see which files directly impact load times. When using YSlow, simply click on the text next to the grade for each element, which details the issues...
Google Indexing Text In Flash Files by Jonathan Allen Google recently announced that it is now able to index text within a Flash (.swf) file. The latest update means that any text that a user interacts with in your SWF file can be indexed by...
Google recently announced that it is now able to index text within a Flash (.swf) file. The announcement arrives hot on the heels of Google Instant Previews, which a lot of users have complained does not seem to support flash - thus yielding a big...
Google plans to use the Flash-based site to show off tech demos made by people using Google's products. Facebook Files Suit Against Spammers - ClickZ Google Groups Drops Support for Pages and Files - Google Operating System
But I didn't ask them to play the four videos on the SMLR Facebook page because the iPad doesn't support viewing Web videos in Adobe's Flash technology. You can assign documents or files with tags for easy collections and organization and you can...
Flash-only sites are a problem: Because marketers could buy their way into Baidu, many sites didn't need to consider the negative implications of Flash-only content on their organic search performance.
Allow engines to reach the directory they live in and offer a plain image behind any that are displayed in nifty Flash enhancers so they can be indexed. Give them each their own (search engine-reachable) home with related content surrounding them...
Marketers have started a petition on Facebook requesting Google AdWords to accept AS3 flash banners. Google AdWords requires the flash banners that users submit to be written in ActionScript 2, even though ActionScript 3 replaced the old...
Search engines are doing a better job at understanding the content within Flash files, but they still don't deal with it as well as plain HTML text. Sometimes a senior marketing manager insists on using Flash for the whole site.
Google Flash Indexing - The googlebot will now index external content sources used in SWF files. Google Book Search - Got a makeover, including embedded links, book search within each book, thumbnail view, content drop-down menu, plain text mode...
It makes you wonder, though, how many more ill effects might be felt in the SEO world if Google can't effectively crawl JavaScript, AJAX, Flash, etc. The Overture/Google domains that traffic is directed to first, before being redirected to the...
They suggest using the NOSCRIPT tag, since Flash files are called via JavaScript, and the search engines don't use JavaScript in their crawlers. They explain that this could be done via hidden DIV tags, which they admit is considered to be hidden...
I know recently Google implemented an update where they will be able to crawl and index text within flash files. Google and SWFObject Jul 30, 2008 Hi, I am after some advice and feedback on the use of SWFObject for flash-based website.
And now, with this week's news that Adobe is providing Flash technology to Google and Yahoo for better indexing, Web developers and SEOs may soon not need to develop a workaround for Flash files. However, there's nothing that ties the content of...
For years SEOs have been about the inability of search engines to crawl flash pages. But now Adobe is making an effort to keep Flash in the web development toolbox. They've announced the provision of Flash technology to Google and Yahoo in order to...
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.
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.
