It has become almost a norm for graphic and web designers to create their own sites in Flash. It is also fast becoming a trend with hotel sites, restaurants and many other businesses that don't know much about SEO . Flash is a programming language that creates stunning visual effects, but is really bad for business. Flash sites may look visually impressive but they get almost no organic traffic. They are impossible to index and therefore seldom make it to the top of the search engines. Read the rest of this entry »

If you want to put video on the internet, you have to host it somewhere. If you upload it to your web server, you will most probably pay a fortune for bandwidth and clog your hosting service . Amazon S3 provides cheap and easy alternative to YouTube.

The size of a 4 minute video with music and some bells and whistles can be around 40MB. If you have only 500MB bandwidth per month, 12 visitors to your site would use up your entire bandwidth and your account will automatically be suspended, your site shut down, or you will have to pay a massive surcharge for exceeding your allocated bandwidth...
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