Entries Tagged as Flash

1. Timer Ticks

So you want to know how much time a visitor spent on your site, or the average amount of time spent by a segment of visitors.  OK, not much of a problem.  But now you want to know how much time was spent on a page.  Still not hard IF your page is a page.  If your site is in Flash however, you have a stickier issue.

Now you already know how much I love Flash (sarcasm), and here’s yet another reason I’m not a fan of Flash sites that aren’t coded properly.  A Timer Tick basically counts the elapsed time that occurs while viewing a Flash “page”.  You can set it up to increment for whatever interval you want (say 10 seconds).  The problem is this “increment” isn’t captured in a Time on Page metric.  It’s captured as a click.

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I wrote this a few weeks ago, and then Jeff stole my thunder by posting his SEO for Navigation Q&A column last week. The good news is that now we’re addressing our Flash issues problem from both an SEO and a Web Analytics hat.

To Flash or Not to Flash, that’s not the question

Let me tell you the bane of this analyst’s job when it comes to websites: Flash.

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I’m going to make an attempt at a series of posts around SEO questions/issues that often come up in my day to day workings and the techniques that help us in that work.  If you have specific questions that you would like to have answered, please feel free to leave a comment on any SEO Q&A post, tweet @ThreeDeep or by filling out the contact form.

Q: Why do you recommend creating unique files and/or file names for each page on a site when you can just use AJAX, Flash, Lightbox or Div tags to show/hide content without refreshing the page for a better user experience?

A:  There are several reasons why you would want to paginate your content.  Here are 4 prime examples:

1. SEO is important!  You took the time to invest in an SEO consultant, now listen to their advice and their techniques so that your site can be properly optimized for search.  If you don’t have pages dedicated to your keywords, how do you rank?

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