March 2010 Digest
The following blog post is an amalgamation of March 2010 highlights in SEO, web design and web coding. If you missed any of these articles, you might find them useful.
SEO Highlights
Bing Webmaster Center Blog: Illuminating the path to SEO for Silverlight
Bing have been posting some great content on their Webmaster Center Blog, and early in March they released an article discussing optimisation of Silverlight video content for search. The article is well-worth a read for SEO’s and Webmasters (and a lot of the principles apply to Flash as well).
LBi Search Blog: SEO breadcrumbs for site hierarchies in Google
My colleague at LBi – Simon Howland – wrote an interesting article looking at breadcrumb trail best practice for SEO.
SEO Gadget: Surviving a Site Migration (An SEO’s Guide)
Moving a site is something that strikes fear into the hearts of many webmasters. Loosing rankings and traffic are a real risk if site migration is done incorrectly. This article gives some good pointers for moving a site to a new domain the right way.
Search Engine Journal: SEO for Ajax
Ajax has long been a sticky subject when it comes to creating search-friendly websites. This simple, best practice guide should help make Ajax-heavy sites more search-friendly (although I would still recommend steering away from heavy use of Ajax for content that should be crawled and indexed by search engines).
Conversation Marketing: Subfolders, subdomains and new domains: Where your blog should live
Ian Lurie wrote a nice article highlighting some of the Pro’s and Con’s of using a subdomains, subfolder or a new domain for adding a blog to your current site. In agreement with Ian’s article I have to say in a lot of cases, using a subfolder would be my preference (although of course each site, server setup and clients requirements are different).
Stone Temple Consulting: Matt Cutts Interviewed by Eric Enge
An extensive interview with Google’s Matt Cutts by Eric Enge. This interview is definitely worth a read for SEO’s and webmasters-alike.
Web Design/Development & Coding Highlights
Web Designer Notebook: The Little Known font-size-adjust CSS3 Property
Using font-stacks is common-practice, but how can you deal with relative differences in the sizes between fonts? The CSS3 font-size-adjust technique let’s you do just that (at least in Firefox).
Nettuts: Uncovering jQuery’s Hidden Features
Delving below the surface of the jQuery JavaScript framework to see some of its not-so-obvious features and capabilities.
CSS3, please!: Cross-Browser CSS3 Rule Generator
Quickly and easily check CSS3 capabilities within your browser by editing the inline styles. Then copy and paste the CSS into your own stylesheet. This is definitely a bookmarked tool for me.
Cats Who Code: 10 Useful code snippets to develop iPhone-friendly websites
Some very practical code snippets for detecting an iPhone, optimising content width, applying CSS and hiding the toolbar… among other tips.
Each month I will be hand-picking a selection of the most useful articles in SEO, web design/development and coding in a digest format. If there are any specific topics you would like me to include please drop me a comment below.
