robertalert8
New Member
Adobe Flash is invisible to Google, essentially. It doesn't help, and it doesn't hurt. So if you have a Adobe Flash website, you need to either create keyword heavy, well structured tag content at the BOTTOM of your pages (especially your home page), or create specific pages that are text heavy to serve as 'landing pages.' But somehow, someway you have to get more keyword heavy, structured text on the website.
The XML sitemap is NOT linked to from the real site; it is mentioned only in the robots.txt file, and you alert Google as well in webmaster tools. So don't worry about links there. You DO want an HTML sitemap, and the best practice is to link to it FROM the home page.
As for your domain, if your domain is already well known, already enjoyes inbound links, then do not worry about it. You really only need a keyword heavy domain in very, very competitive industries. (Hence, jm-seo.org). That said, if you want to go that route you have to balance the needs of humans for short, easy-to-spell domains and the preference of Google for keywords. Choose perhaps a two word domain at maximum, maybe three words. But they look spammy with lots of dashes.
The XML sitemap is NOT linked to from the real site; it is mentioned only in the robots.txt file, and you alert Google as well in webmaster tools. So don't worry about links there. You DO want an HTML sitemap, and the best practice is to link to it FROM the home page.
As for your domain, if your domain is already well known, already enjoyes inbound links, then do not worry about it. You really only need a keyword heavy domain in very, very competitive industries. (Hence, jm-seo.org). That said, if you want to go that route you have to balance the needs of humans for short, easy-to-spell domains and the preference of Google for keywords. Choose perhaps a two word domain at maximum, maybe three words. But they look spammy with lots of dashes.
