A Little Frustrated
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While it’s still to be seen what changes will come to the SL Reports web site, I am frustrated with the fact that I wasn’t seen as a person that could potentially take care of what needs to be done. It looks like the changes will be made without any involvement on my part, by a company in Belgium. A company that has built their whole web site using flash. Anybody that knows a little bit of SEO techniques knows that if you want a web site to actually be indexed by search engines, you use something (anything) other than flash.
Sure, the search engine will see their site, but will not see “any” content on the site, at all. Search engines do not look at keyword and description meta tags and base the decision to list the site on those, alone. Sites that are built using flash, alone, usually aren’t indexed, at all.
I just hope that SL Reports isn’t turned into something that can’t be found anymore. If they needed the site to be optimized to make more money on advertisements, that’s something I understand. To not be considered for the job, when I make more than my fair share from AdSense and TLA, due to my optimization techniques, is just frustrating, though.
Granted, even though I never personally “asked” for the job, I will say good luck.
December 12th, 2007 at 9:46 am
There are more than SEO issues with using Flash. I generally avoid sites with Flash as much as possible. They have a tendency of crashing my main computer (which is very old). They also tend to do very poorly in accessibility issues for the visually impaired.
My two cents.
December 13th, 2007 at 8:30 am
I also love how Kyumoto’s website assumes you would like it to maximize itself. On a dual-screen setup, it centers itself across both of my screens and drops off the bottom of my screen, so I have to move and resize my browser each time.
Ever wonder why the best *designers* always work from home? It’s usually because they lack the business or production skills to be hired on by a real-life agency or design firm. Nobody ever said that you are competent just because you know how to use Flash or Photoshop.
December 16th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Well, it looks like the site is starting to change, today. I’m really a little confused, now, though…. LOL… frustrated, confused… what’s next, huh?
From the looks of things, he is keeping the exact same template that I had changed it over to, months ago. The only changes that I see are the colors and some button images. I honestly hope there’s more to it.
The whole idea behind redesigning the site was to get better ad placement, I thought. The ads are still in the same place… maybe moved up a bit, since some of the things on the site have been removed.
I really hope this isn’t the extent of it, though. If this is all, I “know” I could have given Arbitrage Wise more bang for his buck. If ad placement was important, it would have looked more like this.
At least the site isn’t all flash! There’s hope for search engine optimization.