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May 2009 be as good as 2008
Well, 2008 was a really good year for me, I got to work on nice projects (HomeDepot, Viagra, TELUS) and this blog’s audience grew nicely. I had an objective of getting 10k visits each month at the beginning of January 2009 and I finally got 150% percent that, so 15 000 visits. I can say that everything rolled my way nicely this year.
I know 2009 is supposed to be a tought year considering the recession and all, but I am confident that I will do well no matter what. A couple of things can explain this confidence, first I see the bunch of projects that I have lined in front of me for the comming months which will provide me work until the second half of the year. Also witnessing how much I improved this year technically speaking, I can’t imagine where I will be next year. All in all 2009 will be a good year.
So, as all starting year post I will set myself new objectives. Writting them here will give me more incentives to attain them in order to protect my pride. I guess my first objective will be to augment the attendance to this blog to 35 ooo visits a month. That is a bit bigger than doubling what I have right now. My second objective would be to write 2 – 3 articles for other publication like the one I did for InsideRIA. I would also like to start looking for speaking opportunities, I don’t put to much emphasis on that one but my long term goal is to give a presentation (about topic like SEO, Google Analytics for Flash, PureMVC) in a conference somewhere in 2010. My last goal would be to look around for MBAs that I might find interesting. I always wanted to do a master degree, but since I started working that thought as been pushed back a bit, but I think next year might be a good year to go back to school; at least part time.
I also have some personal objectives like going to the gym more often and eating better, but that is of lesser interest to this blog.
I hope you all get a good 2009 year and that the recession does not darken to much what you see for yourself in the coming year.
Show your support for PureMVC; Donate a click!
If you use PureMVC and you like it I suggest you head to insideRIA and vote for it on this week poll. I have multiple reasons to ask you to do this.
First off I think it’s a great project and it deserves the attention. More attention means more people might start using it and might get involved which can only be good for the project.
Also, we started using PureMVC on 3 different projects (one being HomeDepot – redefining floors) and I use it in a personal project and I really like it. I developed some skills with it and if PureMVC does well, those skills are going to be more valuable. Also, the people at my jobs might not be so happy if in the near future PureMVC would just crumble (which I don’t think could happen), I would have made them invest expertise in something that would have been shortermed.
Lastly, PureMVC is one off the few framework that support both Flash or Flex based project and that is really important for me; so go ahead, give PureMVC some love.
My article on Flash SEO on InsideRIA
Well I wanted to mention that one of my article was posted on InsideRIA. That was a great opportunity for me and I am already thinking about another article I could write for them. There is actually a good story (in my opinion) to tell about this.
I was at first writing a longuer article, about 6 pages or more long, on how Google was indexing Flash content. I was thinking that I could write it at the same pace that I write a post for my blog but I was wrong. I really wanted to write it in a professional way which is a bit different from this blog which I write in a more casual manner. I was putting a lot of pressure on myself and when I am pressured to do something I actually end up post-ponning it indefinitively. Well, in the mean time of all this post-ponning, Google changed its algorithm, so my artcile was good for garbage. That was my fault, because I had many occasions to finish my artcile and I just didn’t.
But there was a good side to this story too; if Google changed its algorithm, it means that I could write an article about it. That`s what I did but this time I wrote it in a more casual way and I didn`t care how long it would end up. So it gave: Google changes the way it indexes SWF content. As for now, I will start to try to write a longuer article and we will see where that ends up.
In the mean time, enjoy my half-done redesign!
Flash and Flex SEO experiment part 2
I had previously made an SEO experiment to see what in Flash and in Flex was getting indexed by Google and I was able to get some results. Well, I decided to push the experiment further so I created seven new test cases both in Flash and in Flex. I have to warn you that I am more proficient in Flash than in Flex so my Flex test cases might be a bit off. Here are the new test cases (numbers start at 8 because I have already made 7 test cases):
Flash8. Static texfield embedded in the HTML using SWFObject 2.0
Link : http://www.fleximagically-searchable.com/fleximagically-searchable-v8/
Expected result: I really don’t know, some rumors say it gets indexed anyway, Google says it doesn’t; this will shed some light.
9. Multiple static textfield on different frames
Link : http://www.fleximagically-searchable.com/fleximagically-searchable-v9/
Expected result: From what I have seen before, Google will index the multiple texfields as if it was one text, so you could write a text with one word on each frame and it will appear as one.
10. Dynamic textfield prefilled with content after a preloader on the first frame
Link : http://www.fleximagically-searchable.com/fleximagically-searchable-v10/
Expected result: I did this to see if the preloader would prevent the content from being indexed. Since Google is able to index Flex content with the default preloader, I think this test case will get indexed.
11. Dynamic textfield outside the viewing area
Link : http://www.fleximagically-searchable.com/fleximagically-searchable-v11/
Expected result: I read that this was working, but with the new special player it shouldn’t. Let see what happens.
Flex
12. Simple custom MXML component
Link: http://www.fleximagically-searchable.com/fleximagically-searchable-v12/
Expected result: I saved a Text component in its own MXML file and used that file in my main application. I think this will work because logically it’s like writing the second file(custom component) in the first one (application).
13. Using States
Link : http://www.fleximagically-searchable.com/fleximagically-searchable-v13/
Expected result: I don’t think any of the content from this swf will be indexed because states use the words addChild in its mxml and I think(logically) this gets translated into the addChild function in AS3 and content added using addChild doesn’t get indexed.
14. Using the ViewStack component
Link : http://www.fleximagically-searchable.com/fleximagically-searchable-v14/
Expected result: I think this has more chances to work than states but since this is a more complex component than the Text one I cannot say for sure.
Now that everything is set up, we just have to wait for Google to crawl those pages. The results and a general recap of the experiment will be posted in an article on InsideRIA.
