Google celebrates today the 57th anniversary of the first patent on the barcode in October 7, 1952.
More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode
seoLink in Flex
September 15th, 2009Hello,
In the past days I worked on the so-called seoLink project for Flex. It’s a more deep aproach of Google Friendly Flex applications (discussed here: http://blog.ag-prime.com/2009/06/permanent-links-in-flex-and-track-them-with-google-analytics/).
Well the main idea is to create a common XML file that stores actual content. Then this XML file is parsed by the Flex application and by an PHP file too.
Using .htaccess I redirect all incoming requests to index.php?p=<request>
So, inside the .php file, I dispach this path parameter and load the equivalent information from XML file.
The resulting html will have the SWF loader for Flex (with flashvars = p=<request>) and alternate content selected from XML. So both alternate text and actual Flex content will be according to the <request> set to the browser.
You can view full source just by right click and view source here: http://seolink.ag-prime.com/
I’ll soon come with updates.
Later update: Lynx view
[15.09.2009 21:20] Yes, we are getting there. The first results in google just arived: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:seolink.ag-prime.com
Also, how it look on Google Analytics. It tracks pageviews, landing pages…
Google indexes external loaded data in SWF files
June 25th, 2009Hello, recently, Google announced support for dinamicly generated SWF content (aka. Flash and / or Flex).
So, from now onw, every SWF file in your website will be indexed, and appear on Google’s search results.
Read more about tracking your Flex website and friendly url’s here.
Read more about Google indexing content from external resources in Flash / Flex here.
Note! There will be still a issue with this, by now they can only index sites scripted with AS1 and AS2, so not your Flex application.