Adobe announced on Tuesday that they are working with the search engines to make Flash file formats easier to index. Flash has forever been the bane of SEOers’ existence, yet we seem to be the only ones. Designers love the creative abilities, clients enjoy the clean professional look and users are mesmerized by the pretty images. Most aspects of Flash, however, cannot be read by the search engine crawlers, leaving sites with a great deal of Flash at a serious disadvantage in the organic rankings game.
~AngieThe Democratic National Convention will be held in Denver, Colorado in August 2008. As a bicyclist, I have important business to attend to involving the convention, and therefore I queried “DNC 2008 Convention” to find their site.
~PPC Handy ManGoogle and Ask.com have recently launched new features in their search algorithms that are blowing the minds of SEO people across the globe. In the old days (a year ago) all you had to worry about was your organic listing, and how it compared to other organic listings in terms of inbound links, content of the site, and presence or absence of Flash.
~PPC Handy ManA recent report indicates that while online advertising will double by 2011 paid search’s market share will lessen with the rise in rich media and video advertising.
~PorterHouseSearchboth.com which is owned by AT&T has created a website that combines the search engines of Google and Yahoo. From a first thought you think they are combining both search engines to get an algorithm that makes all the results relevant. Well, it does not work out that way, it puts both engines in its own frames and you compare the two side by side. Since I do SEO (Search Engine Optimization) it is my job to compare the results of search engines. I normally do that through tabs in my firefox browser and switch back and forth. I used Searchboth and the use of javascript and the frame look is really annoying. It is easy to understand if this was created by someone on their spare time but this is AT&T we are talking about. They are a multi-billion dollar company and cannot find someone to make it look presentable, what are they doing. All I have to say is this, give me my tabs and a better looking web window and I will take that over Searchboth.com anyday.
~Lorrin
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