Flash in SEO??

[shennon]

Hey,

Here I have come up with some suggestions.

Flash website design (http://www.semaphore-software.com/software-solution/flash_development.htm) is not as search engine friendly as websites which are designed in HTML. However, there are some tactics by which effectively optimize your Flash website.

1) You should place your Flash files within HTML files. So you will be able to add your META Tag data and add some HTML above the Flash elements which can effectively be spidered by the engines.

2) Create a version of your site which doesn't use Flash. So you will get the best of both worlds.

3) I would recommend to use SWFObject 2.x using static delivery which provides best flexible way to publish your flash content. It will enables you to provide crawlable alternative html content.

[Paz]

Hi,

Thanks for these tips on search engine friendly flash.

Isn't swfobject 3.0 out already? Does it have any benefits vs 2.x?

Cheers.
Paz.

[convalescent]

well that and i know that the big G is indexing flash with static text embedded in it, they've also stated that they are now able to index flash sites that have XML based feeds.

pretty cool

but i still think flash should be used for graphic embellishment and not as a content delivery method.

[loganlambe1155]

Anchor text, headlines, bold/strong text, img alt tags, and even title tags are not simple elements to properly include in Flash, and 9 times out of 10, the designer won't build them in properly. Developing Flash with SEO in mind is not just more difficult than doing it in HTML, it's not part of the cultural lexicon of the Flash-development world.

[daisyallen123]

As per my experience I would like put it here instead of using the default code, my recommendation is to hand code Flash pages with primary HTML content, and a method of automatically testing for Flash support before attempting to insert the movie.

[ralphjeo]

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[xyzacorleone]

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[janiquebroune]

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[andywily89]

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[gibbsvill]

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[samzaker]

Flash content in SEO is often heavy on images and interactive features and light on text. The leading web development tool, Adobe Dream weaver and embeds Flash in web pages with code that fails to provide accessibility for search spiders who cannot handle Flash.

[breadtaylor]

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[prkrshawn]

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[margarets]

Informative suggestions.Well so many of us are avoiding flash because of the same reason that flash is not seo friendly,but I think form now onwards your suggestions may help them a lot.Please keep sharing such updates in future.

[zacbrownn]

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[johnfranks]

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