as long as what you serve to the bots and as no flash content isn't different to what gets read by your flash i think it's cool...
On 20 April 2010 14:29, Juan Pablo Califano <califa010.flashcod...@gmail.com > wrote: > Isn't that kind of thing considered "unfair" play and penalized by search > engines if discovered? > Cheers > Juan Pablo Califano > 2010/4/20 tom rhodes <tom.rho...@gmail.com> > > > use some server side script to serve up your site, check to see in the > > headers sent to the server if the request coems from a bot or from a > > browser, if from a bot, serve up your xml, if from a browser server up > your > > site. > > > > have a google for "swfaddress SEO" > > > > > > On 20 April 2010 11:52, Paul Andrews <p...@ipauland.com> wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > > > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Flashcoders mailing list > > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders