Is Silverlight SEO Friendly?

sofomor · #1 (**permalink**) 03-18-2008, 09:13 AM

Hello,

SEOs have reservations when optimizing site using FLASH. Are these reservations true for Silverlight as well?

Thank you

**wige** · #2 (**permalink**) 03-18-2008, 11:28 AM

As far as I have seen, the search engines are not able to "see" inside the silverlight applet, which means that anything you put there would be invisible to the engines. I found a test page supposedly demonstrating a workaround (Silverlight SEO Demo) but for right now, as this is a new technology with limited adoption and a proprietary codebase, I would not expect to see effective SEO for pages with these plugins for a while.

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