I don't know how many of these posts I have read, but in the spirit of spamming the internet, here is my list of my all time favorite WordPress plug-ins. When picking a plug-in, I keep in mind that I will not be making the updates, but my clients will be. So I try to pick plug-ins that are easy... Read More...
Canonical urls are a way of specifying a clean url for a given page. A single page can have several urls directing to that single page.
For example
http://www.yoursite.com
http://yoursite.com
http://www.yoursite.com/
http://www.yoursite.com/index.html
So I was up last night, working… surprise surprise, and I ran into a funny thing with Google. I went to enter a keyword to search and Google Blocked me! Ugh… The keyword I had entered seemed suspicous, enter a captcha to proceed. Funny right? So I try just random words, like “happy”, and the same thing. Is this new? I have never seen such a thing like this before. To think Google has added spam blocking techniques on their general search engines. But I wonder, WHY?!?!
I share my connection, but both computers on this line were experiencing the same thing. If google doesnt want us to search their engines, we can very well find another search engine! Little ol’ Yahoo! isn’t too far away… I actually started on Yahoo! and had no idea what a google was! Ha, my parents actually introduced me to google… Kind of funny. And they are not the most computer saavy people. Anyways thats my rant on Google. If anyone had seen this, please let me know! We’ll find a new search engine! 
A big problem when using flash on a website has been seo. It was generally a bad idea to use flash for any main content or navigation on a site, search engines would not recognize it. Flash has always been a way to add movement to a site. Many websites took full advantage of this and went full flash. In the early days some would hide search engine keywords under a flash swf to get searched on. This would become an exploited technique and Google later frowned upon. Earlier this year, Adobe came out with a way for flash applications to allow text and links inside of the flash player to get index by search engines.
Adobe has created a special Flash Player that allows search engines to run through the application and translate the content into something search friendly. This being said, it still poses a problem for back linking. Since a flash site generally keeps a single URL during a single site visit, back linking to a particular page in the flash application is virtually impossible. A site might get index for the flash content, but it will still manage to have a hard time getting up in the search engines.
Probably the best rule to keep when using flash would be to use it wisely. Do not use flash navigation or full website. It should accent a page, not dominate it. Maybe one day flash will be fully searchable by search engines, but until then its safer to stay away from SEO Swf.
For more information on Adobe’s searchable swf, please check it out here.
For more information on Google’s searchable swf, please check it out here.
