SEO: Flash
16 common on-site SEO mistakes you might be making right now
Columnist Pratik Dholakiya shares the 16 technical SEO issues he sees most frequently. Even the most experienced SEO professionals can sometimes...
We Tested How Googlebot Crawls Javascript And Here’s What We Learned
Think Google can't handle JavaScript? Think again. Contributor Adam Audette shares the results of a series of tests conducted by his colleagues...
Google Mobile Warnings For Adobe Flash Sites Expand Worldwide
Google’s Pierre Far announced this morning that Google is expanding the mobile Flash warnings searchers get when searching Google and...
Using Adobe Flash For Your Web Site? Google Mobile Results Will Issue Searchers A Warning.
Flash, Adobe’s multimedia based website technology, is not a friend of mobile devices or search spiders and now Google has decided to step...
Homepage Sliders: Bad For SEO, Bad For Usability
One of the most prevalent design flaws in B2B websites is the use of carousels (or sliders) on the homepage. Carousels are an ineffective way to...
Google Can Now Execute AJAX & JavaScript For Indexing
This morning we reported that the comments on Facebook are being indexed by Google. Google’s Matt Cutts just confirmed on Twitter that...
Google Can Index “Almost Any Text” In A Flash (SWF) File
The Google Webmaster Central Blog posted an update on their Flash indexing capabilities. Google said, as of today, they are able to index and...
Google Now Indexing Flash From External Files
The Google Webmaster Central blog finally blogged Google is now indexing the content of files that some SWF files load externally, technically...
Google I/O: New Advances In The Searchability of JavaScript and Flash, But Is It Enough?
This week at Google I/O, Google talked a lot about the evolution of the technological capabilities of the web. HTML 5 is ushering in new era of...
How Does Google Really Handle Flash Content?
Much was made earlier this year of Google’s announcement that they’ve improved the indexing of Flash content. For years, search...
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...
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...
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...
Meta Keywords Tag 101: How To “Legally” Hide Words On Your Pages For Search Engines
If there’s anything I particularly hate when it comes to SEO, it’s the meta keywords tag. I so wish it had never been invented....
Don’t Expect A Magic Flash Solution For Search Engines
Call me Mr. Rain On The Parade, but after reading an interview in The Guardian with Google product manager of crawl services Dan Crow, I...