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.
August 12th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
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December 16th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
Here is a insight from one of the top flash designers in the UK about html5 -
HTML5 is not ready yet for production, mainly because most browsers don’t fully support it. For example even IE8 doesn’t support most HTML5, and as a SEO you must know there are still lots of people using IE7 out there, even IE6 lol. So that’s the main issue with HTML5, it will take a few years before most people can view it, so at the moment it is more experimental.
But, if you take the example of a video player, you could have a Flash video Player, and have a HTML5 fall back for mobile devices (read Apple devices as everyone else supports flash), so in some cases HTML5 can already be used, but forget about animated HTML5 websites for another 5 years.
IE9 will support HTML5, but when you see that some people still use IE6 after 10 years, you can imagine how long it will take for IE9 to be adopted enough so HTML5 can be used and seen by most. Also 1 big problem with IE9 is that it doesn’t work on Windows XP.
Anyways, I wouldn’t propose HTML5 as an option to your clients yet, but I was curious if you were getting requests…thing is what I just said about the limitations of HTML5, a lot of clients don’t know, so it is very well possible that people start to believe HTML5 is ready, but currently you need “fall backs” meaning if HTML5 is not supported you must provide a plain HTML alternative, which means double the work and so double the price…so it is not practical to use HTML5 yet.
And in any case, any animations is coded in javascript…it’s a lot of hype if you ask me…HTML5 has been in development for 5 years already lol. If Steve Jobs didn’t open his mouth with “Flash will die, HTML5 is the future”, noone would be talking about it, but it seems everything Steve says, everyone believes
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