An excellent blog post detailing ways to make your Flash site user–friendly on the iPhone and iPad (or in fact any other device devoid of the Flash plugin).

As an SEO I don’t recommend building Flash sites in the first place. But if you must—aim to make it play nicely by following the steps highlighted in the blog post:

• Use SWFObject and make use of the alternative content feature
• Develop a simplified HTML version of your site for mobile devices
• Use JavaScript to detect mobile devices and automatically forward to mobile version of site
• Set viewport to width of iPhone
• Make the iPhone stop resizing text on rotation
• Create an iPhone home screen icon/li>
• Use Helvetica!

Read the article here

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).
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There was much speculation suggesting that Apple would reject the iPhone Spotify app due to it’s placement as a direct competitor to Apple’s iTunes Store – giving users the ability to access hundreds of thousands of tunes without having to pay for them individually. However, after a profit sharing deal was settled with Apple, the Spotify app was approved earlier this month. (more…)