Solutions to Improve Flash SEO

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What’s wrong with Flash SEO, is there remains indexing issues for search engines which damages visibility of a website. Flash is not Standards Compliant. Meaning the content is very hard for SE’s to follow in a structured order like HTML pages. Flash also uses mostly images where the content cannot be read by the search robots.

There’s more details about this issue. I will just list some resources because it has been covered thoroughly by others. I don’t want to just repeat what they said…so here goes:

Simple techniques for improving Flash SEO

What I want to cover is the simplest way to do SEO for Flash; Provide Read more »

5 Critical Problems To Take On With Your Website

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You’ve built a great website. It gets some Google love, and even winning some sales.

Nevertheless, traffic and conversion may be suffering because of persistent problems with your website. I will highlight 5 critical issues you may be blind to, and how to quickly correct them.

1. HTML SEO.

Where is the H1 tag? How often is it used and is it enclosing the correct text? Are the lower level tags placed correctly?

Your logo should not Read more »

How to Create a Draggable Sort List

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One of my favorite features of a content management system is a drag to sort list. Something similar can be seen in systems like the widgets module in WordPress.

Before I realized it was there, a few clients have asked me to integrate these lists so they can better manage items for their website.

This is a relatively new dynamic web application feature that some sites may be using. I will show you how to implement one of these using simple techniques and tools.

First you will need Read more »

How to Pre Plan a Website Before Development

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Too many people rush into the development of their website without any initial planning. I will offer some advice and insight into the way you prepare your goals for a website setup project.

The first thing you need to consider is demand. What kind of demand is there for what your website will be offering. This is called the market. Rarely does a new company create a market for their product or services. Most enter an already established market where others have proven success. You will want to Read more »

When Syndication Becomes Article Piracy

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Recently I was googling on link graph related keywords and noticed a pirated article with the same title as  an SEOBook.com entry. To make matters worst, the entire article was republished with no attribution to the original creator.

Now I’m not going to call anyone out, because that’s not my job. But it got me thinking about syndication and how this contributes to article piracy on the internet.

A content reuse study recently released by the Fair Syndication Consortium, highlights the amount of abuse leveled at newspapers. In it they claim Read more »

Using CSS to Display a List Inline

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I’m a developer with several years of experience, but I’ll be the first to tell you, using CSS to display a list inline is not always an easy task.

But first a quick overview. Lists are everywhere. And for two good reasons. One, humans love them. Secondly, they are part of the semantic web. I’m speaking technically of HTML tags ol, ul and li.

Now usually I would shy away from doing a post about such a specific technical issue that only a few would be interested in. But Read more »

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