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While building your website, making all of the pages visible is more than just putting it online. You have to link to it so that you and your visitors can find it. creating a new web page and putting it online is just the beginning. Following these examples to notify the search engines about your new page, will get it noticed faster.

When you want all the pages that are meant to be public indexed by the search engines, there are 4 methods of making them available:

1. Internal Linking to each page from your home page, navigation menu and/or a sitemap.html page
2. Creating a sitemap.txt file and putting it in your home folder
3. Using the Google Sitemap plugin for WordPress, which creates the sitemap for you
4. External Linking: Those links from other websites to the specific pages

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Getting flash-based websites indexed by the search engines has always been a challenge. It meant making sure you added plain text to the page so the crawlers had something to read, while trying to incorporate the text so it blended in with the design.

That all changed recently when Google announced it now uses the Adobe Flash Player technology to read Flash. You are now free to design your websites in Flash and still get indexed in Google. This is a major jump in Search Engine Optimization strategies.

All those who have previously put off using Flash to build their websites now have the freedom to let their imaginations loose. While this is just on Google and Yahoo! so far, other search engines are sure to follow soon.

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