Flash Seo

Alex006 · Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 3 Location: UK

Hi every one

I know that Flash is the worst thing i can do for SEO.

I told my client that but i still want to do the most i can to get him in the Search engens

Any ideas what i can do

dcz · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:22 pm Post subject: Re: Flash Seo

And welcome Very Happy

I barely do not use flash as I am a poor designer myself Wink

But Search Engine Optimizing Flash based web site is very possible, but it requires quite some work, especially on static web site where you cannot just write things once and for all.

The principle is simple, you want a lot of html around your flash.

First, you need one URL per page of content, which is the number one problem with flash as you can basically built a site using one single URL. Bots are not able to see anything more than the html code so they'll miss more than most of the web site. And it's as well a matter of how are your users or clients going to be able to just bookmark a flash page, post deep-links links elsewhere and such.

So the idea here is to use flash in html pages rather than using flash for everything. This is more work as you need to handle some html as well where you'd have needed just one page when using only one URL.

This does not necessary mean you need to totally redo all of your flash application if you already started to build up one single flash file to handle all the web site, as you can pass parameters in you flash application in the object call.
So you can always manage to built up one physical or dynamically generated html page (and here doing it dynamically using php for example is very handy if you plan to go for more than few pages), being basically your flash container, per page in your flash application.

So you'll end up with one URL per Flash page.

Then you need to use HTML links and to tell bots what's in your flash pages as well, which can be performed mixing flash and html.

To do this you can either use :

lavinya · PR1 Joined: 24 Jul 2006 Posts: 159 Location: Turkey

hmmmm

I'm using latest standart w3c xhtml. using swfobject (with js and css and text).

please visit go http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/

dcz · Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:42 pm Post subject: Re: Flash Seo

Interesting.

Pretty much the same behaviour as :

rick74 · phpBB SEO Team Joined: 01 Jul 2006 Posts: 64

Google is getting better and better in indexing flash. I had a new header made in flash with some links to new pages. Pages that are listed nowhere else except in the flash header.

These pages are indexed by google and what do you know: the header itself even count's as an internal backlink

dcz · Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 9:28 am Post subject: Re: Flash Seo

Well, the fact pages are discovered without links does not necessarily mean they where found in the flash menu.

Google uses many ways, all available actually, to find content, and this includes the Google bar, AdSense and Google analytics.

The fact it would consider s a backlink a link in your flash header would tell more about it. But I cannot find it : http://www.google.fr/search?q=link:http://forum.bouwlink.nl/&filter=0

What made you think so ?

For sure, adobe now want to open a lot more the flash standard, which would help out bots dealing with it, but there will always be a problem with flash when all the content is served on the same URL I think.

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