Since Mitch wants to get paid to share his ideas or knowledge. Here are some links on what Linearization means. Second link goes into more details.

http://searchangle.com/seo-sem/fractal-semantics-linearization-powerful-seo-concepts/

http://www.miislita.com/fractals/keyword-density-optimization.html

I really wish we could use this forum more for sharing ideas instead of shooting each other down or bragginig about what we know. What a concept! Google never charged for using their search engines. Youtube never charged for using their video search. Keyword here is FREE. You did not come up with any of your knowledge yourself, you read it elsewhere or copied techniques from others. It’s free. So can’t we make these discussions about what we can learn from eachother so we all get better?

Wow. That hurts! “No web developer understands in this business” I think most people on this forum understand, but most of us are limited by third party websites, time, and what our managers want.

I do want to point out though that “what is on your page” actually is the biggest factor in ranking well. I agree that keyword relevant links has the biggest influence, but with no relevant content on your pages, your rankings will quickly tumble.

“If you care about site content and how it relates to search presence, you ought to get busy writing content that people will link to rather than writing content you think spiders like to read.”

Seems like this is a contradiction to “What’s on your page is the least important aspect of SEO”

Just a thought!

I do totally agree with the fact that dealership SEO is very very easy since the competition is very limited. That is probably the only reason I have not created my own website over using a automotvie specific vendor. It’s not worth the investment or time for me.

Many times the answer to video is with the OEM’s and the regional managers asking them for a resource and contact person.

Many times a mistake is going to the Ad Agency which views this whole process as a threat to their business or (like dogs) they are terrorital about things.

Another beauty of this process is we are becoming the solution to finding our own way to success in what we do, selling service and product. It is more cost effective, more personalized for our company and sales department, most important it allows us to be more visable to the potential client, developing the relationship with them.

You said “However with all this attention on Flash ETC why waste the time when Video Streaming is making hugh inroads and will allow the dealers to use existing video footage supplied by the manufacture’s to promote the products and services??? at a fraction of the cost??”

OMG so true!! This is something I have been focusing on over the last several weeks. Obtaining much of the running footage from the OEM can be a pain in the butt at times but if you’re aware of the right sources, it’s usually out there.

The wonders you can work with these assets.

Gotta Video CD and DVD ripping software!!

Jeff

MS has developed a great solution which I have posted a few months ago: Microsoft has developed a competitor to Flash called Silverlight, which (before today) was more search engine friendly than Flash.

While Microsoft’s apparent from first access will give more power to the guys and girls at Google, Adobe’s assistance may help bloggers seeking fancier layouts via flash, without having to sacrifice invisibility from the never sleeping web crawlers.

However with all this attention on Flash ETC why waste the time when Video Streaming is making hugh inroads and will allow the dealers to use existing video footage supplied by the manufacture’s to promote the products and services??? at a fraction of the cost?? They spend millions of dollars to produce this footage and few dealers take advantage of this, they would rather spend $$$ money on Flash and other fancy toys / tools which makes little to no sense with todays economic climate.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/improved-flash-indexing.html

http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/01/adobe-makes-flash-sites-visible-to-google-yahoo-but-not-microsoft/

http://brajeshwar.com/2008/google-yahoo-and-other-search-engines-will-index-flash-files/

“What’s on your page is the least important aspect of SEO.”
“If you care … you ought to get busy writing content …”

come on, i’m not going to let you get away with that.

Hmm… on second thought, who cares! Those tachometer loading pages are so cool!

#1. Linearization. No web developer in this industry knows what that is, or what it means to Google. Flash has allowed these vendors to come up with some disgustingly non-linear content layouts, and now those developers will have even less reason to grasp the idea of linearization and the value it has for spiders AND users.

#2. What’s on your page is the least important aspect of SEO. The biggest deciding factor in your site’s search presence is how many inbound links you have, what level of quality the links are, and how those links describe your site. This is another aspect of SEO that no web developer understands in this business, as evidenced by the total ignorance of the canonicalization strategy when building a site. The only reason you see noticeable changes to the SERPs when you change your site’s content is because our industry has little competition for most keywords. If you care about site content and how it relates to search presence, you ought to get busy writing content that people will link to rather than writing content you think spiders like to read.

#3. On second thought, someone should be paying me for this information. That’s all you get. Spinning wheel animations and flashing headlights for everyone.

I’m a HUGE fan of flash! I love the creativity it inspires and the enhanced abilities it gives over GIF’s. I think flashing headlight roll-overs are cool (don’t need a full flash video for that though), and I even like the carousel Mr. Metter put on Mileone.com – it is cool looking…..what do you think Jeff? [haha].

On the other hand, Flash can be over-done and absolutely destroy your indexing if not used in small doses.

Someone made a good point about spiders taking the path of least resistance. I’m not sure how true that statement is, but it sure sounds like human nature to me and I think those spiders are still programmed by humans. Maybe that’s just my weird logic.

I think it is great that there will be some flexibility in the future, but I will remain somewhat traditional with CSS, HTML, and the other indexable languages as long as I can still be creative with them. Flash will continue to play a small part in image slideshows and videos in the meantime…..and I’ll still be learning how to use Flash CS3.