Patapage and site indexing

Does the “social” content of your web site get indexed under your domain? Normally, it doesn’t: if people write on Twitter, Facebook, blog posts about your web site or the topics it deals with, your site is not connected with such information. With Patapage you not only get connected, but also can get that the social content gets connected also for indexing.

An objection that could be raised to Patapage – to any Ajax-powered site – is this:

“Content that is inserted through Patapage is not under my domain so it will not be indexed by Google”

Actually, if you look at details, things are quite different.

If you build your site with Patapage as suggested, your site basic structure and HTML will be as simple as possible. All the “core” content will be hence as SEO-friendly as possible. What happens if you don’t use Patapage? Well, what normally happens is that whatever “talk” about your site topics is not indexed nor linked to your site in any way. And of course this includes indexing. This is the situation when Patapage gets added.

By adding Patapage, 1. Your site SEO-friendly structure is preserved 2. You connect “talk” and encourage visitors to connect to your content.

The extension of your site with Ajax-powered features, like widgets – increases your connectedness – and hence visibility: its an opportunity, not a problem.

The mistake would be to use Patapage as a way to build your core content – but this is not a good idea, and will not only not be SEO friendly, but likely nor user friendly too.

Patapage used correctly is a way to evolve a site remaining SEO friendly. Because the content remains simply structured. This said, there is work being done to index under your domain also all the content inserted in Patapage – see section 4.4 of the user guide.

Add a nice, light music player to your pages

We just published an additional button / link creator in Patapage that lets you add a music player on your site:

It handles both single files and playlists. To set the files to be played, it has a comfortable edit in place:

This way you can publish your podcasts,  music files, any mp3 file in the context of your site. Easy to set and to maintain, as all Patapage 🙂

A demo page is here.

Thanks to Happyworm and their jPlayer that has made this integration much easier than it could have been.

Flip your HTML text around

One of the problems we had to met while building Patapage was the ability of “flipping” text vertically in both directions, top-bottom  and bottom-top. This because many users want to activate Patapage services as docked buttons, as it is done in so many web 2.0 applications, adding some external application widget to your pages.

But in those cases the text pasted is fixed, and the widget’s button  is usually an image, with “on click” active on it. But we wanted more: we wanted the web site editor to be capable of freely editing the text of the button, so we needed the docked button to be in pure DHTML. We needed to be able to flip any text vertically, either bottom up or top bottom.

We thought there would be a hundred ready (possibly on jQuery) solutions to this, but we found none, in particular, none compatible with the usual series IE7-8 Firefox Safari Chrome, so our pupunzi built his own; it is a general jQuery component, freely available here:

http://pupunzi.open-lab.com/mb-jquery-components/mb-fliptext/

And then we included this feature in Patapage, if you are using docked buttons: