Comments on: Does Google Know that You Have Online Obits? http://www.funeralfuturist.com/google-funeral-obits/ Helping funeral and cemetery professionals embrace the future! Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:47:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Obituary for Newspaper Obituaries | Funeral Futurist | Robin Heppell http://www.funeralfuturist.com/google-funeral-obits/comment-page-1/#comment-195 Obituary for Newspaper Obituaries | Funeral Futurist | Robin Heppell Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:13:42 +0000 http://www.funeralfuturist.com/?p=224#comment-195 [...] the early years the Newspaper Obituary served its community well, disseminating the biographical and funeral service information about its [...] [...] the early years the Newspaper Obituary served its community well, disseminating the biographical and funeral service information about its [...]

]]> By: Kevin Chen http://www.funeralfuturist.com/google-funeral-obits/comment-page-1/#comment-162 Kevin Chen Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:45:07 +0000 http://www.funeralfuturist.com/?p=224#comment-162 I really agree with your comments above. Many funeral homes aren't aware of the importance of showing up on a search engine (google, yahoo, msn). This can mean a lot of lost business, not to mention giving families the ability to find the online memorial that they paid for and you created for them. Many online memorial websites I've seen are poorly optimized for Google and the other search engines. Many sites are difficult to navigate, and leave important content hidden under many layers. Some sites are also heavy users of Adobe Flash, which is difficult for the search engines to index. The google "spiders" aren't able to read the flash graphics, and as a result, many of those pages look blank. In general, I think there are a lot of technology partners of funeral homes that seem to be doing a poor job of keeping funeral homes aware of important trends on the web! Kevin Chen email: kevin.chen at famento dot com http://www.famento.com I really agree with your comments above. Many funeral homes aren’t aware of the importance of showing up on a search engine (google, yahoo, msn). This can mean a lot of lost business, not to mention giving families the ability to find the online memorial that they paid for and you created for them.

Many online memorial websites I’ve seen are poorly optimized for Google and the other search engines. Many sites are difficult to navigate, and leave important content hidden under many layers. Some sites are also heavy users of Adobe Flash, which is difficult for the search engines to index. The google “spiders” aren’t able to read the flash graphics, and as a result, many of those pages look blank.

In general, I think there are a lot of technology partners of funeral homes that seem to be doing a poor job of keeping funeral homes aware of important trends on the web!

Kevin Chen
email: kevin.chen at famento dot com
http://www.famento.com

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