SEO in Silverlight

Last post 12-24-2009 6:15 AM by stevejones. 3 replies.
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  • 11-20-2009 12:28 PM

    • ilves
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    SEO in Silverlight

    Hi,

    I have a requirement of creating a search friendly Silverlight site with Silverlight 3. I need some suggestions on search engine optimization for a Silverlight site. If anyone has any idea then please suggest me a way to make a Silvelight site search friendly where pages are completely done with Silverlight. There's no mixture of HTML. I'm using Navigation framework of Silverlight 3 to navigate from a page to another page. It would be very helpful if someone could give the tips or idea.

    Someone Please help.

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  • 11-20-2009 12:36 PM In reply to

    • sonu
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    Re: SEO in Silverlight

    I guess the best approach would be to simply output HTML content when a robot visits your site and Silverlight content when a human visits your site. Also take a look at this article:

    http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/Silverlight-SEO.aspx

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  • 11-20-2009 1:22 PM In reply to

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    Re: SEO in Silverlight

    Hi Sonu,

    Thanks for the link. I was trying to make robot understand Silverlight content. In fact I have a requirement of helping search engine finding the url 's of each pages of my site. Problem is the navigation system has been done with Silverlight.

  • 12-24-2009 6:15 AM In reply to

    • stevejones
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    Re: SEO in Silverlight

    Hi,

    I'm agree with the way defined by Sonu but as you mentioned that "the navigation system has been done with Silverlight" that's why Search engine robots will not crawl/index those navigational URLs.

    I suggest to create a website in HTML (for search engine robots) as well as using silverlight (for visitors). By doing this only you can make your website search engine friendly.

    You can put links on your home page only which should point to HTML based website and Silverlight based website so that search engine spiders and visitors both can select the version they want.

    I think this will help you....

    Thanks...

    Best Regards,
    Steve Jones,
    Rich Internet Applications
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