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Flash is now “Googleable”?

November 12th, 2010

According to a post on the Google Webmaster Blog by software engineers Jifeng Situ and Sverre Sundsdal, great strides have been made in the ability to index Flash sites – and more improvements are on the way: “Last month we expanded our SWF indexing capabilities thanks to our continued collaboration with Adobe and a new [...]

 
 

Site:Command VS Webmaster Tools: Which to Trust?

March 31st, 2010

Search engine submission services work fast to get your site indexed, but how many pages are indexed at any one time? Opinions differ on how to track such data, since results obtained through different methods may vary wildly. In a poll carried out by Search Engine Round Table, webmasters were asked what they used to [...]

 
 

AJAX Crawling Live?

January 29th, 2010

Vanessa Fox at Search Engine Land has a fabulous post on Google’s proposed crawling of AJAX (click the link at the end of this post to read her definitive step by step outline of how to make your own pages more crawlable) but here we are just going to recap the Google journey to AJAX [...]

 
 

Top News from SMX East: Google Proposes to Crawl AJAX

October 8th, 2009

At the SMX East, the biggest news of the day was the proposal from Google to start crawling AJAX webpages. AJAX was persona non grata among many web developers, simply because it was virtually unindexable. Google estimates that about 70% of all web content is created dynamically, and that figure is likely to grow. “This [...]

 
 

Google Tools and Toolbelt

May 16th, 2009

Google Webmaster Tools is updated yet again to make it easier to see which page of your site has the highest Google PageRank. You simply log-in to the Google Webmaster Tools, click on your verified site (or click “Add a site” and follow the instructions), and then Diagnostics -> Crawl stats (in the new interface). [...]