Flash & Search Engines...just Use A Site Map?
I have a flash site that resides on only one page and want to boost it a little for search engines. Besides using meta tags, what else can you do to improve rankings on search engines?
If I create a html link to a site map at the bottom of the page...with html links to just the text from all flash pages...will this improve rankings? Assumingly this will allow SE's to spider the text that resides within the flash.
But, will this direct links to the sitemap rather than the homepage?
thanks
tony
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Posted on: 02-13-2003, 10:26 PM
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I have designed several "Flash only" web sites.
I knew that search engines can not read text in a swf file.
Therefor I have relied on adding lots of meta keywords in the index.html that hold my Flash object.
Now by entering my URL into at this simulator:
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