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For years the two major SEO don’t dos were building your site purely in Flash or using AJAX. Since major search engines such as Yahoo! and Google have received a sanctioned Flash reader from Adobe, they have both improved their results on reading SWF files. The next major battle is crawling AJAX websites.

Many website owners will have had the experience of Google indexing URLs that have only ever appeared in JavaScript so we know that there has always been some support, even though the message in the SEO community has always been that JavaScript is not crawlable.

For the less technical of us, the goals outlined in Google’s proposal for making AJAX crawlable are:

• Minimal changes are required as the website grows
• Users and search engines see the same content (no cloaking)
• Search engines can send users directly to the AJAX URL (not to a static copy)
• Site owners have a way of verifying that their AJAX website is rendered correctly and thus that the crawler has access to all the content

Let’s hope that there is more guidance on crawlability of AJAX than there is for Flash, otherwise many of you will be finding parts of your site that you genuinely do not wish to be crawled and indexed appear in search results.

This is the first report of this nature made publicly available around the Sumobaby clients analytics and non identifiable aggregated trends. The data is not taken from all Sumobaby clients but the majority of notable clients.

Traffic distribution

The traffic distribution across websites clearly shows that a majority comes from search engines and a fair distribution for many common business models.

The highs and lows of each traffic source needs to be taken in context of a particular website, so where you may think that a low direct traffic volume would indicate poor brand awareness it may not be the case if that site happens to particularly excel in SEO.

Search engine distribution

Q3 ’09 search engine distribution

A staggering 90% of all search referrals is from Google search. From experience this is not an uncommon story for UK and/or English speaking websites.  You may find a higher Yahoo! and Bing saturation in many certain categories in France & Germany.