Flex SEO Competition!

Ryan Stewart has announced that he is doing a contest on the most searchable Flex app. He has come up with the phrase“Fleximagically Searchable” in which you have to have searchable in your Flex app. Right now if you type that into the search engine you get not results for Flex apps.

There are some conditions of course for entry:

  • It has to be a Flex application
  • “Fleximagically Searchable” must be dynamically loaded. It can’t be static text inside of your application. - But I don’t care how you load it, in fact that might make a difference in how Google ranks you.
  • The first link must be deep linked directly into where you load “Fleximagically Searchable” into your application. Feel free to use any deep linking methods out there.
  • Nothing in your code can dynamically load the phrase automatically. It has to be the result of a user interaction.
  • You must provide source code and be willing to talk about exactly what you did.
  • Multiple entries are allowed if you want to try different things.

So if your are up for it, give it a crack!

To go to the official competition page the link is here

July 8, 2008
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Flash Searchable

On the 30th of June 2008 (Monday) Adobe anounced they will be working with Yahoo! and Google to enable search on Flash content.

Both Yahoo! and Google will be given a special version of the Flash player that will be able to open up SWF content and search through it. The Flash player will also be able to perform user actions so the content can be crawled.

Adobe explains why they have chosen to do this:

“Until now it has been extremely challenging to search the millions of RIAs and dynamic content on the web, so we are leading the charge in improving search of content that runs in Adobe Flash Player. We are initially working with Google and Yahoo! to significantly improve search of this rich content on the web, and we intend to broaden the availability of this capability to benefit all content publishers, developers, and end users”

Having Flash content searchable is going to open up the doors (or should a I say flood gates) for even more Flash content. I can tell you this, when I heard this a little bit of wee come out! It will be spectacular as all the RIAs and Flash content that I develop will be searchable which will lead to the content being listed on Yahoo! and Google.

When will this new searching begin though? Well Adobe has anounced that the new SWF searching has already been implmented in with Google and that you should be seeing better results already.

Excuse me, but now I have to go and clean my self.

 

July 2, 2008
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