Meta-Tags & Google
Q: Chris, I updated my meta-tags and the page title tag on my home page and then checked but Google isn’t showing any changes, particularly in my page title tag? Why not?
A: Changes are not real-time so your expectations are wrong. Updating your meta-tags, or optimizing them, I should say, is a great idea, but don’t expect Google to see those updates or update your listing with them immediately. Chances are it will take a week to a month for you to see anything different at Google, particularly with your page title tag. Google might visit and crawl your website daily, or regularly, but that doesn’t mean they’ve updated their index and the results you see in a search engine results page with any of the information they’ve crawled at your site.
Flash Websites Still Don’t Index Well at Google
Q: My webmaster is telling me Google is indexing and crawling Flash websites just like .html websites now. Is this true?
A: Not true. Google has made some announcements that it has improved it’s ability to crawl Flash websites (all Flash websites) but it’s sort of a “qualified” announcement. Your webmaster will have to follow their guidelines but you should only expect this to help some – not put you on the same “crawlability” scale as a .html/non-Flash website. An all Flash website is still at a disadvantage to any competitor’s website that is NOT all Flash and is optimized for top ranking at Google, Yahoo!, and MSN. That’s what I’ve been saying for three years and I’m sticking to it (for now!).
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Marketing to Brides Online
