Search Engine Optimization And Flash
Lately, I've taken to steering my clients toward HTML or HTML/Flash hybrids because of the problems ranking Flash with the search engines...... I miss doing full Flash sites.
Does anyone know of any ENGINE FRIENDLY techniques to allow the SE to see what's in your content?
I noticed that back in Flash 4 the HTML generated by Flash actually had all the text used in the movie within the code. Flash no longer does this. Anybody know why? Seemed like a good idea....
Goldpan,
http://www.bluegelmedia.com
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Posted on: 04-22-2003, 04:37 PM
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Does any one have any good tips on how to rank up in search engines? SEO's I've heard that having a html intro page is good and bad, along with that I've also heard that Auto-redirecting is a good way achieving some upward trends in rank. Or backward linking.
I'm using Flash 8 for flash and Dreamweaver for my html intro page. If anyone has any tips or could view my site and give some direction please let me know.
http://www.farinadesign.com
Does Flash 8 have a way of indexing content?
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FARINAdesign
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well, this is a question i should probably pose in a search-engine-optimization forum about flash instead of a flash forum about search engine optimization.
at any rate, here goes:
since we [presumeably] are not building sites solely for the sake of virtually represented masturbation, and we build navigations to be "user friendly," we do, in fact, need users to visit our site.
my question is about the HTML that flash spins, and how it affects search rankings.
meta-tags have all but become obsolete, since the hackings and trickery of the devious set sent unsuspecting searchers looking for "california real estate" to locations flaunting "gay hardcore" by using keyword doping and duping.
since, the engines have come to rely on a more complex combination of meta-tags and page content (and some, like Google, has left meta-tags behind altogether), other elements of the page are particularly important:
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the first 200 words of text in the <body> tag
the URL of the page
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