For what it's worth... If you are truly keeping in mind html-only users (vis-a-vis the alt content), it would be wise to merely include LINKS to all the images rather than embedding the images themselves. Otherwise the page load time could become formidable. Naturally you could test it by temp. removing Flash availability in your test environment, to see for yourself.
Wayne On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Aran Rhee <[email protected]> wrote: > There is not really such as thing as "too much" alternative content. This > is the content most search engines will see, so as far as they are > concerned, the alt content IS the content of the page. The idea with > whitehat SEO is that what the users see must match what the search engines > see. As long as your users are seeing the same words and text (in Flash or > HTML) as the what the bots are, then you are not breaking any rules etc. > > Given that SWFObject uses the domready event to init etc, the user > shouldn't have the overhead opf having to load the alt content images AND > the swfs (but they will download the text portion of the alt content). > > > Hope this helps, > Aran > > > > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:32 PM, koolaid <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Hello, i am writing a CMS (content management system) for a Flash >> gallery. There will be user driven content images and descriptions. I >> have the flash and flash backend (swf + php + xml) covered. I now need >> to write the alternative content output. It is important to my client >> to have the images and descriptions SEO friendly. >> >> That being said. Is there a limit to the amount of content i can put >> in the alternative content section. I ask because there may be 50 or >> 100 images with paragraphs of text associated with each image. I will >> need my php to output alternative content for html only users, as well >> as xml for the swf content. Is this realistic. Will search engines >> flag me for too much alternative content? >> >> >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SWFObject" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
