Archive for July, 2008
Help Make a Difference and Get a Wii!
Posted on July 15, 2008, under Contests.
Hi peeps,
Jason from TheUniversityKid.com is holding a cracking contest: Make A Difference and Win A Nintendo Wii!
The purpose of this competition is to help two affiliate managers at Market Leverage - Debby Phillips and Jen Fluker - who are training for a 60 mile walk to raise money for breast cancer. Normally I don’t advertise contests but this one is worth a shot because a) I’d be helping them to raise money for breast cancer which is nice, and b) I might get a chance to get a Nintendo Wii or a Flip Mino for FREE 
Check Jason’s post to get detailed instructions on how to participate on this great contest!
Good luck to you all
Making your Blog Better - How To List
Hi peeps,
Today I’m going to share with you all a small compilation of must-read web developing articles to make your blog / site better 
Hopefully, you’ll find fresh ideas to improve your writing skills and make your site more appealing, attract more visitors and build a robust readership!
Here’s my Must-Read Article list!
- Traffic Building - For the Total Newbie | Rauru.com - Traffic building tips
- How to Analyze and Improve the ‘Bounce Rate’ for Your Website | DoshDosh.com - Traffic Analysis tips
- Link Building - How? | Rauru.com - Link Building Techniques
- 10 Techniques to Get More Comments on your Blog | Problogger.net - Blogging Techniques
- Road to Successful Blogging | Rauru.com - Write better contents, become a better blogger
- To Monetize or Not | The Melvin Blog - Site Monetizing
- I Ran Out of Ideas, Now What? | Rauru.com - Blogging Tips
- Monetizing your Site - Don’t Get The Wrong Idea! | Rauru.com - Site Monetizing tips
Happy reading!
P. S.: if you know of a great article that should be listed here let me know! If I find it useful you might see it published here
Traffic Building - For the Total Newbie
Posted on July 8, 2008, under Internet, SEO, Web Development.
Hi guys,
Today we’re going to discuss about some effective Traffic Building techniques to increase your site’s visibility and build some backlinks in the process (P. S.: this article is intended for the total newbies so don’t expect to find any advanced, NASA-like traffic building tactiques! xD)
Why do I need to get more traffic to my sites?
Whilst this may appear a stupid question, it is not. Most starting webmasters don’t know or are not fully aware of the importance of stimulating your traffic. They just expect people to visit their sites out of nowhere. A romantic idea, yes, but unfortunately things don’t work that way. (more…)
Googlebot and Flash?
Posted on July 1, 2008, under Gadgets, Technology, Web Development.
Hi peeps,
Yesterday, Google’s Software Engineers Ron Adler and Janis Stipins posted at Google’s blog some shocking news: Googlebot has learned to index Flash contents!
As incredible as it might sound, apparently this is possible now thanks to a new library developed by Adobe known as Searchable SWF Library. This library delivers improved web search capabilities for SWF applications and provides web crawlers the logic that chooses how to walk through a SWF. All of the extracted info is indexed for relevance according to Google’s algorithm. Neat, huh?
All that glitters is not gold
While these are good news for all the web developers and flash coders, Google still has some technical limitations:
- If your website loads a Flash file via Javascript, Google may not have it indexed since Googlebot doesn’t execute some types of javascripts (I didn’t know that Googlebot can execute Javascript scripts until now!)
- If your Flash file loads external contents (HTML, XML, TXT, FLV, another SWF, etc) they won’t be considered as a part of your contents in the Flash file. Instead, these contents will be indexed separately.
- If contents in your Flash file are in Hebrew or Arabic they won’t be indexed. Apparently, there are some technical issues that prevents Google from reading those languages on Flash files.
- Embedded images will be ignored by Googlebot for now. Only textual contents will be crawled.
What Should I do to have my Flash files indexed by Google?
Nothing at all. Google will crawl your sites and if a Flash file is found they will try to index its contents up to their technical limits.
I believe that we’ll start to see some changes in the upcoming months. I wonder how this will influence on everyone’s SERP. I guess that all we can do for now is wait and see!
Check the rest of the info here: Improved Flash Indexing | Google’s Webmaster Central Blog
Cheers!
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