Silverlight SEO

Silverlight SEO

Ive just released a silverlight website and Im trying to spread the word to get the ball rolling.

Does anyone have any advice on SEO for Silverlight or other means to get the word out about me website.

Answers & Comments...

Answer: 1

Let's try make this more relevant to Silverlight...

SEO of Silverlight sites is certainly doable (ignore anyone that still says it is not), SEO for a Silverlight site is just the same SEO problem that every other site faces.

SEO on a Silverlight website

• First ensure that you provide a sitemap for the searchengines. That should map to all content pages.
• Provide a parallel ASP.Net website to publish your content for the search engines to read. This is now quite easy with RIA services as an ASP.Net website can consume a RIA service just like any other WCF service.
• Make good use of headers, meta tags, titles, human-readable urls to include relevant keywords

SEO for a Silverlight wesite

• Paid search via Google AdWords (look for free trial vouchers in some trade magazines). You have to know that your sales from traffic will actually pay for the clicks.
• Pay only for keywords that will get you the right kind of viewers. You are not intested in pageviews, you are interested in conversions (sales).
• Assume that if only 1 in 100 visitors make a sale that is actually a good conversation rate (actually 1% can often be a very good conversion rate).
• Provide useful, relevant content. The best way to gain ranking is to provide useful content relevant to the topic of your website.

There are professional SEO agencies taking $1,000s a month from clients to ensure the clients make many times that amount back. If you can't afford the professionals, start doing it yourself by contacting other relevant sites and offering to swap site links. Stay away from link farms, spammers etc as you may well get penalised for any black-hat techniques or relationships.

Answer by HiTech Magic for Silverlight SEO

Answer: 2

I worked in Devart Company and one of my product page was implemented using Silverlight - http://www.devart.com/dbforge/mysql/studio/. I was watching what's going on with SEO results after implementing. So I can tell you that it's OK. All pages were crawled without problems.

Take a look at this code, you can see all links under:

<div style="margin-top: 15px;">              <img style="margin-left: 18px;" src="/dbforge/mysql/studio/images/dbforge-studio-components.jpg"                  width="554px" height="426px;" usemap="#components" />              <map name="components">                  <area coords="10, 97, 83, 183" alt="Query Profiler" title="Query Profiler" href="query-profiler.html" />                  <area coords="358, 317, 443, 403" alt="MySQL Debugger" title="MySQL Debugger" href="code-debugger.html" />                  <area coords="103, 313, 185, 404" alt="Data Export/Data Import" title="Export/Import"                      href="data-export-import.html" />                  <area coords="465, 95, 542, 199" alt="Database synchronization" title="Database synchronization"                      href="database-synchronization.html" />                  <area coords="100, 21, 196, 128" alt="Administration and maintenance" title="Administration and maintenance"                      href="database-administration.html" />                  <area coords="240, 6, 318, 95" alt="Query Builder" title="Query Builder" href="mysql-query-builder.html" />                  <area coords="457, 223, 539, 331" alt="Intelligent SQL Coding" title="Intelligent SQL coding"                      href="sql-coding.html" />                  <area coords="6, 218, 79, 327" alt="Data reporting and analysis" title="Reporting and analysis"                      href="data-reports.html" />                  <area coords="227, 325, 330, 415" alt="Database Designer" title="Database Designer"                      href="database-designer.html" />                  <area coords="353, 23, 451, 114" alt="Database projects" title="Database projects"                      href="database-projects.html" />                  <area coords="182, 144, 361, 275" alt="dbForge Studio features" title="dbForge Studio features"                      href="features.html" />              </map>          </div> 

You can show me your website and I can tell you exactly where I can see problems and give you an advice!

Answer by Mark Validio for Silverlight SEO

Answer: 3

In addition to what HiTechMagic Suggest,

I recommend visiting this blog post where you can find detailed explanation on optimizing your silverlight websites.

bing(dot)com/community/site_blogs/b/webmaster/archive/2010/03/05/illuminating-the-path-to-seo-for-silverlight(dot)aspx

Answer by sophie for Silverlight SEO

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