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• Sample Code for Search Engine Optimization for Silverlight
• Powerpoint: SEO for Silverlight Applications
• Sample Ecommerce Site Demo

Today was the Minneapolis Silverlight User Group. It was my first user group presentation, so kind of glitchy! All the GUYS (ok there were Four women this time) were very kind and attentive.  No one got up and walked out - so I'm a happy camper.

We talked about Search Engine Optimization and how to enable applications that use Silverlight to keep Search Engine Rankings as high as possible.  Those topics are discussed freely on the web and I pulled a lot of the content from Nathan Buggia's Mix08 talk and Nikhil Kothari's blog.  So thanks you guys. 

But, the sample code is mine, at least.  It's a minimal Ecommerce site demo which is based off of an actual ecommerce site that is in development.  So I hope it's helpful.  I may pull some of the relevant pieces out of the app and write up some details - why it's there, it's operation, it's purpose.

Some of the features in the sample application are:  web.Sitemap to Silverlight menu, WrapPanel for category listing, a sample of how to use the same .xap file for multiple page areas (those are the islands, look in app.xaml), registering your url (for deep linking)  and turning off the html when javascript is enabled. 

To see the page as a search engine would just turn off your javascript and the html formatting will be there.

Those links are at the top. Have a great day!