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FLASH SEO - Deep Links & Page Titles With SWF Address
SEO News Source: http://www.chuckaikens.com
Story Found By: chuckaikens 1197 Days ago
Category: SEO
Quick overview on how to use SWF Address (and Mod Rewrite) to create unique URLs without #.
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from beussery 1197 Days ago #
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I noticed comments on the blog are closed so I’ll post mine here...In July 2008 Google started crawling text content in Flash and supporting simple JavaScript like SWFObject meaning techniques like this aren’t necessary to start with if your only goal is simply to have content indexed. If ranking by specific keywords or growing PageRank is important to your search engine marketing campaign, this "new" approach does nothing to address the fact that SWFAddress provides unidirectional degradation only. Meaning if I post a link in my blog to http://www.delpadre.com/#/?pid=10&ipath=lego using anchor text "Lego" Googlebot sees http://www.delpadre.com and thus keyword relevancy and link juice are misallocated to the wrong URL.  Blitz and Asual are well aware this technique is suboptimal....

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from chuckaikens 1197 Days ago #
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Thanks for the additional information.  For feedback, I was presented this SEO question by a Interactive Agency that is already committed to SWFAddress, so I focused on providing an solution for getting SWFAddress without switching from SWFAddress.  I will take your comments and do some more research about SWFObject and the Google Indexing, I haven’t seen many successful implementations using SWFObject and many tests I read about online showed that the Google Indexing was marginal, do you have one or two examples of good implementations that you could share?I get a lot of questions about Best Practices for FLASH SEO and I am always looking for a better answer than ’FLASH is bad for SEO!’.Thanks again for the comments, I opened up comments on the blog...my mistake on that one, I don’t usually post very much to the personal blog.

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from beussery 1197 Days ago #
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Hey man, didn’t mean to come across as harsh I just feel your pain and hate to see folks focus lots of time to no avail on this topic and especially SWFAddress.  Here are some of my posts on this topic starting with the most recent....http://www.beussery.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/google-flash-seo/http://www.beussery.com/blog/index.php/2007/11/swfaddress-20-seo-myth-busted/http://www.beussery.com/blog/index.php/2008/02/latest-seo-for-flash-method-proven-suboptimal/I’d also suggest:http://www.ninebyblue.com/blog/search-friendly-flash/

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from chuckaikens 1196 Days ago #
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No problem, thanks for sharing!  I updated this information to be included on our main blog at http://www.seowhitehats.com/2009/02/07/seo-blog-sphinn-comments.html and included links to your blog post.

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