Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Google

2010-04-21 Thread allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)
does google still ignore the fragment identifiers used in swfaddress urls? if so do you do any .htaccess redirecting to get around this as otherwise, even with a set of links in your no flash div, you'll still only end up with a set of links into the index a On 21 April 2010 01:21, tom rhodes

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Google

2010-04-21 Thread tom rhodes
the links that get served up to the bots have no #. and with mod_rewrite a deep link like yoursite.com/section/subsection/ can tell your flash exactly what it should be doing. when a user navigates from there then you'll see a #, google never will though. On 21 April 2010 13:50, allandt

[Flashcoders] Flash Google

2010-04-20 Thread Paul Andrews
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

RE: [Flashcoders] Flash Google

2010-04-20 Thread Karina Steffens
to browsers with no Flash (eg, iPhone and iPad). Karina -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders- boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Paul Andrews Sent: 20 April 2010 10:52 To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] Flash Google I

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Google

2010-04-20 Thread tom rhodes
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

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Google

2010-04-20 Thread Juan Pablo Califano
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

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Google

2010-04-20 Thread tom rhodes
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

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Google

2010-04-20 Thread Nathan Mynarcik
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:42:21 To: Flash Coders Listflashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Google 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

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Google

2010-04-20 Thread Dave Watts
Isn't that kind of thing considered unfair play and penalized by search engines if discovered? It depends on how it's done, exactly. If you have very similar content within Flash and within the alternative HTML you serve, it's not considered cloaking:

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Google

2010-04-20 Thread Paul Andrews
On 20/04/2010 21:37, Dave Watts wrote: Isn't that kind of thing considered unfair play and penalized by search engines if discovered? It depends on how it's done, exactly. If you have very similar content within Flash and within the alternative HTML you serve, it's not considered

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Google

2010-04-20 Thread Dave Watts
In the case that Flash is driven by dynamic content dependent on user interaction, I don't see how such a criteria of similar content can reasonably be applied. Most web applications that I work on, that have HTML interfaces, also have dynamic content. Presumably, you'd have the same dynamic

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Google

2010-04-20 Thread Paul Andrews
On 20/04/2010 22:51, Dave Watts wrote: In the case that Flash is driven by dynamic content dependent on user interaction, I don't see how such a criteria of similar content can reasonably be applied. Most web applications that I work on, that have HTML interfaces, also have dynamic

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash Google

2010-04-20 Thread tom rhodes
google bots follow links. like i said before look at the swfaddress SEO stuff to get started. as long as what google finds at yoursite.com/section/is the same content you deliver in your flash when you go directly to yoursite.com/section/ then there is no foul play going on. it's not doubling up