Read the following if:
- you have a Silverlight application with many internal pages
- you want search engine to index your Silverlight content
- you want to manage Silverlight content for search engine and reader effectively
There isn’t too many particles articles in the web talking about Silverlight SEO. Therefore, I would like to share my seo optimization knowledge with all of you.
To start with, I would like to prove that my concept is practical. One of my application Silverlight Resources Directory, which has a lot of internal pages, is now indexed with Search Engine with most of the pages. Here are the links results from Goolge, Bing and Yahoo:
For your reference, the application just launched less than 10 days and it is now receiving more than 30 search queries everyday.
Create a SEO Application together
To better demonstrating the Silverlight SEO techniques, I will attempt to create another new application with a new sub-domain to keep track the performance. If you are interested in it, I hope you could follow my articles and create you own Silverlight application for testing as well.
The detailed steps are as follow:
- Create a simple Silverlight Application
I will utilize the navigation framework in Silverlight 3 to create a simple application with numerous pages. - Setup a PHP/ASP to host the Silverlight application
Your web server must be able to support either PHP or ASP. The server side script will be responsible for detecting who (Search Engine or Human) is viewing the page.If it is search engine, we will display a html page corresponding to the Silverlight Application.
- Start linking your website
This is the most important steps. Your website will never exist if you don’t do any link buildings. I will teach you how to create sitemap and also use webmaster tools to submit you website information. - Result and statistics
Of course, we also have to evaluate the performance of the work. I will post all the statistics for your reference.
What I can get from the testing
To make it clear, the testing mainly helps you to index your Silverlight content in search engines. It will not cover anything like search ranking or the use of keywords. Those topics will be outside the scope of my testing.
Your SEO Obstacles
One of the biggest obstacle in doing SEO is that your page takes many days before it can be appeared in search engine. You either have to link your newly launched website with some hight traffic websites or you have to build a lot of links.
But don’t worry, if you are interested to go though the testing with me, I will help you to index your site in my blog post as well.
I will tell you more details in the coming days.
