Hi,
Google - the main protaganist in SEO is now able to crawl Flash
sites and extract text. I did hear that recently this included dynamic
text, but I am not sure how "good" this is.
Using SWFAddress gives you a nice way to allow people to bookmark
your URL's, it does not necessarily make your site search engine
friendly just by having it - you need to put a bit of work in or use
the SEO example on the asual examples page (this adds some PHP stuff and
redirection so that your URL's can be properly crawled by search engines...)
http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/samples/seo/ - download this and
look at the server side code too...
The main thing about SEO is making sure you have a well structured
site that contains content that is relevant to the search terms people
are looking for. No-one knows the exact algorithm that Google uses to
rank pages, but it does a lot of adding up of weighted scores to get
your overall rank. The one thing that seems to make you rank highly are
links from other ranking sites to your own, where those links are
relevant to your site. It's a bit of a hit & miss, but making your site
fairly compliant and following the Google Webmaster guidelines will help
you a lot - even though I don't believe that a fully browser compliant
website is one of the key things seeing some of the rubbish out there
that ranks.
Don't forget though - SEO is just another marketing avenue. If your
target audience visit's FWA everyday then invest your time in making it
win SOTD rather than 1000's on getting a high rank in GOogle, etc...
HTH
Glen.
Gustavo Duenas LRS wrote:
you could use to optimize a flash site the swfaddress, you can
download it from here:
http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/
and I'll send you a link for you to see how to apply this to your
code, Actually the structure I have now is based on that.
You can use the metadata available in your keywords, description and
others part also if you are using swfobject you can put in the part
where is supposed to be the warning about the
flash kind you actually have running in your flash object (I'm doing
that with no problem at all).
You can use indexation using a xml.tar.gz file to index the files in
your website, you can make more than one page in html and named as the
different parts of your website.
That is what I've been using.
Gus
On Jul 2, 2009, at 11:22 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote:
Hello List..
I could go to Google and try and find this out, but I figured being
the seasoned designers you are, I would be in better hands if I asked
here.
Excuse me if this is a little off-topic, but what, in your opinion,
is the best way to optimize your flash site for search engines?
S.E.O is what I believe they call it.
Search Engine Optimization.
Doesn't this more pertain to the type of MetaData you have in your
HTML then in your flash file???
Or is there a separate technology for S.E.O??
Any and all responses are welcome..
Best,
Karl DeSaulniers
Design Drumm
http://designdrumm.com
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