If I were building a site, rather than an app in Flash, this is what I'd do:
1) All data exposed as 3 forks: #1: mydomain/xml/my/content/url #2: mydomain/xhtml/my/content/url #3: mydomain/flash#/my/content/url 2) Flash pulls all data from #1 3) #2 is an XSLT transform (or templating engine, whatever) using the exact same data as #1 4) Have /index make a guess based on capabilities, and redirect. 5) Allow the user to choose a different fork, easily enough. Remember this choice with a long-life cookie. 6) Add <link rel=""/> elements in all 3 forks, pointing to the same content in the other two forks. 7) Have a good long hard think about if you really need to do this. Flex is for apps, not sites. Just not being able to middle-click a link and open a new tab is really flaming annoying for users :) -Josh 2009/8/24 kris range <[email protected]> > > > Google doesn't index anything af the hash value (#) so this doesn't > work in a larger more dynamic websites since it looks like all content > is provided in the single HTML source. I'm also dubious of Google > indexing content inside of a SWF since I haven't seen any sites that > are full-flash enabled with this...though I would love to see some! :) > > IMO for SEO, HTML is the easiest way to achieve it. Flash/Flex makes > things difficult but achievable. SWFAddress uses a nice technique but > I've also heard good things about the Gaia Framework. A site I am > working on currently uses the SWFAddress technique where you provide > an SEO friendly URL and then redirect to the hash value URL. For > example: > > SEO URL: http://www.yourdomain.com/us/catalog/some-product/ > SWFAddress URL: http://www.yourdomain.com/us/catalog/#/someproduct/ > > Kris > > > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Carlos > Rovira<[email protected]<carlos.rovira%40gmail.com>> > wrote: > > > > > > You could go with a full flex site that support SEO. We did it with our > site > > at Codeoscopic: > > > > http://www.codeoscopic.com > > > > but we as well use html to get the SEO capabilities, so you get the best > of > > both worlds ;) > > > > for example try to search for "codeoscopic avant" and you get something > like > > : > > > > > http://www.google.es/search?q=codeoscopic+avant&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:es-ES:official&client=firefox-a > > > > you can see the web in other devices not flash enabled like iPhone > > > > C. > > > > > > > > 2009/8/22 Jeffry Houser <[email protected] <jeff%40dot-com-it.com>> > >> > >> > >> > >> But, it is largely believed that google does not yet offer a way to > >> search the swf content it is indexing. > >> > >> Can you provide me one example that says otherwise? Ryan Stewart had a > >> contest, which just fizzled because no one could get their SWF to show > up in > >> a Google search. Has that improved? > >> > >> Nate Beck wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> Google already indexes SWF content, they talked about it at MAX last > >> November. > >> > >> Here is a recording of the > >> presentation: http://tv.adobe.com/#vi+f15384v1000 > >> > >> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:09 AM, toofah_gm > >> <[email protected]<garym%40byu.edu>> > wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> If you are a competitor of mine, build a full flex site, otherwise HTML > >>> is the way to go for SEO. ;) > >>> > >>> --- In [email protected] <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, > "christophe_jacquelin" > >>> <christophe_jacque...@...> wrote: > >>> > > >>> > Hello, > >>> > > >>> > Is it better to make a full flex site or is it better to add some > html > >>> > pages with flex to have a better position in Google ? > >>> > > >>> > Thank you, > >>> > Christopher, > >>> > > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Nate > >> ---------------------------------------- > >> http://blog.natebeck.net > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Jeffry Houser, Technical Entrepreneur > >> Adobe Community Expert: http://tinyurl.com/684b5h > >> http://www.twitter.com/reboog711 | Phone: 203-379-0773 > >> -- > >> Easy to use Interface Components for Flex Developers > >> http://www.flextras.com?c=104 > >> -- > >> http://www.theflexshow.com > >> http://www.jeffryhouser.com > >> -- > >> Part of the DotComIt Brain Trust > > > > > > > > > > -- "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald - [email protected] - http://twitter.com/sophistifunk - http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/
