• Verin
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Topic: Getting my flash site on google???

I've put together a website using flash entirely.  I've been researching how to get my site on google and i've been finding that flash sites are much harder to get noticed.  does anyone have any solutions to this problem?

  • LSW
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Re: Getting my flash site on google???

Make a HTML version. The problem is Search Engines are machines and Flash is visual. Search engines, Blind users or those with poor site, epileptics and mobile phone users... none of them can use Flash. So your really need a HTML version as well hand have that indexed.

Other than that, You have to put the Flash in a HTML page with Meta tags in it. But most indexing of pages is based on Content and header tags in the content... all of which you have burried in a flash movie it can't use.

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Re: Getting my flash site on google???

So when you say make a HTML version do you mean design an entirely new site separate from the flash site I have now?

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Re: Getting my flash site on google???

YEP!

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Re: Getting my flash site on google???

Exactly... That is why Flash sucks for web design... double the work. best is to have a HTML site with Flash elements so the content is still accessible. You can use a database and have the HTML & the Flash site draw from it so both sites have the same content.

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Re: Getting my flash site on google???

I write flash and still have google seeing it just fine it can see my urls and my text. may i ask how you are saving your files?

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Re: Getting my flash site on google???

You could do as I did with my flash...

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="250" height="400">
        <param name="movie" value="home.swf">
        <!--[if !IE]>-->
        <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="home.swf" width="250" height="400">
        <!--<![endif]-->
        <ul id="altnav">
          <li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
        </ul>
        <!--[if !IE]>-->
        </object>
        <!--<![endif]-->
      </object

Last edited by Eric (2009-08-04 18:13:28)

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Re: Getting my flash site on google???

Depends also on how you embed Flash. Using SWFobject embed method allows to have altenative content which is accessible for search engines.