Hi Paul, Your best bet is to use something like SwfObject to write the flash in JavaScript, while serving indexable content to Google. That can be just some static text, or dynamically read content from the xml files. A fringe benefit of that is the ability to serve alternate content to browsers with no Flash (eg, iPhone and iPad).
Karina > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:flashcoders- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Andrews > Sent: 20 April 2010 10:52 > To: Flash Coders List > Subject: [Flashcoders] Flash & Google > > I have a client whose website I developed (something like a year ago) > in > Flash and the site is totally driven by xml configuration files. It > works well. > > My client has told me that google has indexed the site, but the google > indexing contains an warning message - basically the flash site app > saying it was unable to read an xml file. > > I have never encountered the message myself and the site works as > expected, so I guess it's something to do with the google spider or > there was some sort of problem when the spider ran. > > Unfortunately the google search result currently makes the site look > broken: > > "Oops! I think something went wrong! Unable to load website XML from > 'website_config.xml' - loading timed out." > > I'm no google expert, so what's the best remedy to get google to index > this site properly? > > I might be encouraged to write less flippant messages in the future. > > Paul > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
