Comments on: Abe. I think I have something you’re going to love… http://www.thoughtprocessinteractive.com/blog/abe-i-think-i-have-something-you%e2%80%99re-going-to-love%e2%80%a6 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:52:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Erin http://www.thoughtprocessinteractive.com/blog/abe-i-think-i-have-something-you%e2%80%99re-going-to-love%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1#comment-21 Erin Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:47:26 +0000 http://thinktpi.tpidev2.com/www/blog/?p=31#comment-21 Ok, the person at Bruce Clay who posted this article is totally a flash-hater, so Abe you may want to ignore most of this article. Or maybe we can create our new flash website as a game where you can zap Lisa Barone with Flash guns and then feed her to Googlebot. http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/archives/2008/07/dont_build_your_site_in_flash.html But there is one part of this article worth noting for our test site: “Google did note, however, that the crawler will not execute any type of JavaScript, so if your page loads a Flash file via JavaScript, you’re still out of luck.” Ok, the person at Bruce Clay who posted this article is totally a flash-hater, so Abe you may want to ignore most of this article. Or maybe we can create our new flash website as a game where you can zap Lisa Barone with Flash guns and then feed her to Googlebot.

http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/archives/2008/07/dont_build_your_site_in_flash.html

But there is one part of this article worth noting for our test site:
“Google did note, however, that the crawler will not execute any type of JavaScript, so if your page loads a Flash file via JavaScript, you’re still out of luck.”

]]> By: Abe http://www.thoughtprocessinteractive.com/blog/abe-i-think-i-have-something-you%e2%80%99re-going-to-love%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1#comment-20 Abe Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:44:18 +0000 http://thinktpi.tpidev2.com/www/blog/?p=31#comment-20 This is excellent. And Erin, I think your idea of testing it is also excellent. Might be worth putting some obscure phrases in there in different ways, so that we can test which ways get ‘seen’ by the spider: timeline buttons vs. buttons that are attached via actionscript, links that are triggered by something other than mouse-events (keypresses, for example), links that are loaded in via external data such as xml, etc. Also, I wonder what url gets indexed, and when? If we implement address-bar re-writes via swfaddress, will the spider grab the re-written URL so that it can actually deep-link straight into a sub-page of the flash movie? Let the gaming of the system begin (again)! This is excellent. And Erin, I think your idea of testing it is also excellent. Might be worth putting some obscure phrases in there in different ways, so that we can test which ways get ‘seen’ by the spider: timeline buttons vs. buttons that are attached via actionscript, links that are triggered by something other than mouse-events (keypresses, for example), links that are loaded in via external data such as xml, etc.

Also, I wonder what url gets indexed, and when? If we implement address-bar re-writes via swfaddress, will the spider grab the re-written URL so that it can actually deep-link straight into a sub-page of the flash movie?

Let the gaming of the system begin (again)!

]]> By: Cathy http://www.thoughtprocessinteractive.com/blog/abe-i-think-i-have-something-you%e2%80%99re-going-to-love%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1#comment-19 Cathy Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:03:09 +0000 http://thinktpi.tpidev2.com/www/blog/?p=31#comment-19 Oooh I love that idea! Probably wouldn’t take too much to do and would be a great case study for our blog. Oooh I love that idea! Probably wouldn’t take too much to do and would be a great case study for our blog.

]]> By: Erin http://www.thoughtprocessinteractive.com/blog/abe-i-think-i-have-something-you%e2%80%99re-going-to-love%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1#comment-18 Erin Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:32:58 +0000 http://thinktpi.tpidev2.com/www/blog/?p=31#comment-18 Well I have 3 comments actually: 1) I can’t wait to spam Abe’s swf files. 2) It’s about time. One more point for SEO!!! :) 3) “Google has integrated it and Yahoo will in a period of time.” Hahahahaha. Yahoo will integrate it when they stop losing all of their employees. Seriously though, if Google has integrated it now we should start testing it to see if it actually works. I propose creating a simple flash site that is optimized (only in the swf file) for some very obscure keyword phrases. Phrases like “James is a tag cloud hater” and “Abe’s flash is ghettofabulous” and “Matthew has a pet Shmoo” Then, about a month from now, we can start testing to see if it ranks in Google for those obscure phrases. If it doesn’t, then I won’t be a believer… Well I have 3 comments actually:
1) I can’t wait to spam Abe’s swf files.
2) It’s about time. One more point for SEO!!! :)
3) “Google has integrated it and Yahoo will in a period of time.” Hahahahaha. Yahoo will integrate it when they stop losing all of their employees.

Seriously though, if Google has integrated it now we should start testing it to see if it actually works. I propose creating a simple flash site that is optimized (only in the swf file) for some very obscure keyword phrases. Phrases like “James is a tag cloud hater” and “Abe’s flash is ghettofabulous” and “Matthew has a pet Shmoo”

Then, about a month from now, we can start testing to see if it ranks in Google for those obscure phrases. If it doesn’t, then I won’t be a believer…

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