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The Truth About Search Engine Optimization
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The Truth About Search Engine Optimization

by Rebecca Lieb
February 2009
Beginner to intermediate
224 pages
4h 9m
English
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Truth 15. Think twice about hot new technologies

Search engine spiders like big, dumb, ugly sites, remember? They like text, and they like links they can follow to discover new pages and other websites. Search engine crawlers care not a whit for lush photography and fancy-pants design elements.

But site owners, and often users, like glitz, glamour, and flash. And Flash, too, as this certainly applies to sites built in Macromedia Flash, which affords the opportunity to construct dazzling animations—for people, at least. Unfortunately, sites that rely too heavily on Flash can be all but invisible to the search engines.

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