[Flashcoders] search engine optimization for flash sites

Hi there, My client wants to have his website optimized for search engines. I don't know much about this topic. The binary data of a flash file can't obviously be read by a search engine though. I have this idea to create a html site map for my flash page. Basically this site map would have

Re: [Flashcoders] search engine optimization for flash sites

Robin, maybe this will help. It wont solve all your problems, but could make a solution a bit easier. http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/ Jiri Robin Burrer wrote: Hi there, My client wants to have his website optimized for search engines. I don't know much about this topic. The binary data

Re: [Flashcoders] search engine optimization for flash sites

Thanks Jiri, this however only let's you control the flash movie with the back and forward buttons of the browser. I'm looking for a solution that published the content (text) of flash pages as html. Cheers Robin On 9/6/07, Jiri Heitlager | dadata.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robin, maybe

Re: [Flashcoders] search engine optimization for flash sites

Best way would be saving your content in a database or xml and generate a html pages from it. the same content will be loaded inside flash. thus search engines can crawl your html pages which show the same content as your flash site. Robin Burrer schrieb: Thanks Jiri, this however only let's

Re: [Flashcoders] search engine optimization for flash sites

SWFAddress is not only the back and fwd button access, it has the ability for deep linking in search engines. Read the documentation on it, there's a lot more to it... it's very good! -Gerry Thanks Jiri, this however only let's you control the flash movie with the back and forward buttons of

RE: [Flashcoders] search engine optimization for flash sites

Hi Robin, Google DOES index flash content (out of the box) but there are some limitations. The biggest one is that Google only indexes the text and links that are embedded in the swf. So dynamically loaded content will NOT be indexed. Therefore most pro's will go another direction, the one of

Re: [Flashcoders] search engine optimization for flash sites

Message - From: Robin Burrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 3:46 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] search engine optimization for flash sites Thanks Jiri, this however only let's you control the flash movie with the back and forward

Re: [Flashcoders] search engine optimization for flash sites

First step: Figure out how people will likely try to find your website in the search engines. (You will *always* remain invisible on search term flower delivery, for instance... far too much competition. You might be able to place on 'flower delivery' 'san francisco' haight-ashbury, though.)