No problem... good luck! :thx
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No problem... good luck! :thx
I have no idea what you re talking about there Frank.
My post pointed out that your preceding post didn't quite make sense. The source for the OP's site as linked is fine. IOW: Nothing wrong with it. You asserted that it was invisible to SE's. In my opinion, it is not invisible.
trukkerz site is invisible to search engines because there's not a single visible link on his home page to his site. It's quite irrelevant whether his html validates or not. His home page may well be visible, but the site is invisible to search engines.
I'm sorry, this was obvious to me (maybe only to me)...
"Just because you can [do a Flash navigation menu], doesn't mean you should"
Frank
I should add as a qualifier the following:
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Flash Web sites tend to be one of the poorer types of Web sites in terms of SEF (Search Engine Friendly). Many of the search engine spiders/robots/bots/ crawlers cannot read the contents within the File file (.SWF). Till Date, Google and FastSearch are able to read the URLs or Text within a Flash file. That is why it is important when creating Flash sites to also create a simple but text rich HTML Web site for spiders and for Web users that prefer the less eye-candy media. After all it is totally dependent on the website owner to take a call for the website development.
There are several ways to use Flash within a site’s design that can help reduce the negative qualities of the Flash files. The first method is to use a partial flash site and partial HTML site. Many sites opt for this solution because you can have the eye-candy with the benefits of the HTML site. Here, there banner can be made in flash & the rest of the part can be made in HTML. Second method is to create a splash page that gives the user the ability to choose either an HTML version or a Flash version. This solution is very common as well. The spiders will crawl (no pun intended) the HTML version while your Web visitor will be dazzled by the Flash version. The third method to combat the illegibility of the Flash files is to use the noscript tag or noframe tag when using a flash only site. This is however not the good option and one should only use these tags when there is no other option.
About noscript tag – The <noscript> tag is used to provide an alternate content for users that have disabled scripts in their browser or have a browser that doesn’t support client-side scripting.The noscript element can contain all the elements that you can find inside the body element of a normal HTML page.The content inside the noscript element will only be displayed if scripts are not supported, or are disabled in the user’s browser.
If the URL links in your Flash file are image text or your hotspots are defined by, for example, tabs and not text objects your Flash file cannot even be read by Google. In any event, a Flash file is not to date read by any other search engine.
Run your website through this Search Engine Spider Simulator to see what links it picks out to follow (but bear in mind the Google addendum):
http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/spider/
hi yes i understand what you are saying about flash only menus - the site is still a work in progress so i will put a text menu down the side like i have here http://www.watersedgehotel-blackpool.co.uk = will this help - like i said i am not too hot on SEO = can you point me to a good free keyword generator site - also do I have to put ALT-TEXT for every pic on the site - - - thanks for the info
ok on a diff subject where can i find a good explanation on the ROTATE comand in the animation part of XWD - I have looked at the help files but doesnt really explain - basically i am doing a site for a florist and he has asked if i can get a flower on the home screen to rotate ?? but cant find out how
Thanks