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dsulvett -> SEO Friendly website (1/29/2007 9:57:03)

Hello All;
I am in need of some advice. (I am a novice you know)

I need to develop a SEO friendly website. I need my site to be able to be seen by the search engines with no obstacles..in my business if your site doesnt rank high in google, you suffer!

Anyway, does flash, frames or tables block search engine crawlers? any help would be appreciated! any advice is good advice (if you know what your talking about).

im using exspression web



jurgen -> RE: SEO Friendly website (1/29/2007 10:25:15)

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Anyway, does flash, frames or tables block search engine crawlers?

The crawlers are not necessarly blocked when you do it right. But I would vote against all of the above....



jaybee -> RE: SEO Friendly website (1/29/2007 10:57:28)

The easiest way to see what Google sees is to open your page in Lynx browser. http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html

You can install it on your machine but it's not straightforward. If you use the link it will ask you to put a file in your root directory for it to key off. That's very simple to do.

Look carefully at the page in Lynx. What you see is what Google will use to index. No readable content, no index.



Tailslide -> RE: SEO Friendly website (1/29/2007 11:00:18)

I like Jurgen. He's sensible. He'll never last here! [:D]



dsulvett -> RE: SEO Friendly website (1/29/2007 11:13:07)

Thank you for your help!

When i say flash i am not referring to the entire page, i mean just a flash banner or some pictures that change etc...is that a bit more forgiving to the search engines???

I forgot to ask..."menus"
1. do they hurt SEO results, AND
2. When i have a menu that has an option with a SUB menu, are those pages viewable to the search engine?

Thank you very much and thanks for that tool



jaybee -> RE: SEO Friendly website (1/29/2007 11:23:41)

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I forgot to ask..."menus"
1. do they hurt SEO results, AND
2. When i have a menu that has an option with a SUB menu, are those pages viewable to the search engine?


Menus are the way SEs move around your site, if you don't have links to other pages then they can't find them BUT, it depends on the menu. Likewise sub menus. If you want to be certain all your pages get picked up then do a site map and have a link to it on every page.



Tailslide -> RE: SEO Friendly website (1/29/2007 11:24:54)

As long as the links in the menu are "real" links rather than just javascript ones then you should be fine.

I use lists for all my menus including ones with submenus and then style them with CSS.

Having a Flash banner or images is no problem and won't affect your Search Engine rankings either way.

Just ensure that you use heading tags properly - i.e. use one H1 tag on a page for your main and most important heading, then use H2, H3 etc in decreasing rank of importance. Again, you can style them how you like using CSS. Search engines LOVE H1 tags so make sure it counts!




jurgen -> RE: SEO Friendly website (1/29/2007 13:11:28)

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ORIGINAL: Tailslide

I like Jurgen. He's sensible. He'll never last here! [:D]


You wanna bet? [sm=whistling.gif]



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