Testing trackbacks on Fleximagically.com

July 18th, 2008 . by polyGeek

Fleximagically.com is an experiment in Flash player Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ). Adobe, Google, and Yahoo recently announced that they now have the capability to index dynamic content inside Flash based websites.

Fleximagically’s experiment is to take a Wordpress blog and create a Flash front end for the user to see. The backend is still the same Wordpress Admin/Dashboard that any other blogger might see.

Even though it’s Flash the browser’s history buttons ( back/forward ) still work. As does deepLinking directly to a post. In fact, unless your right-click on the page you’re likely to not notice that you’re on a website that is all Flash - actually, it’s built with Adobe Flex.

And trackbacks work as well. Here’s a link to a post about the semantic markup that the Flash player can render.


Avoiding spam-bots by renaming comments.php

February 17th, 2008 . by polyGeek

I’m at my wits end trying to keep spam-bots off my blog. I’ve tried renaming key PHP files as these guys suggest to see if that helps.

By the way, all spammers are invited to go hiking with me in the Grand Canyon anytime. Just say the word and I’m there.