Re: Any Advice on Flash site building please
Hi Joe,
however sites that are done only in flash usually don't fair well in search engines
That's resonably true, but there are a lot of things you can do to work around this. I create all my sites in Flash but the index.htm page is always written in html for search engine optomisation.
The majority of sites only require the home page to be indexed by SE's. SE's seem to weigh heavily on the "description" text. If you get the correct text within this tag the ranking becomes good. Links are also another ranking system used by SE's, but these aren't so easy to manipulate.
Flash also has the "Text used in this site" and "URL's used in this site" function which SE's can use to parse the site. In fact this can be used to "cheat" S/E's by placing text off stage so it's never visible to the visitor but the search engine lists it. Very similar to the old method of having white text on a white background to cheat the old S/E's before the robots got wise to this trick.
Another method I sometimes use is to create a very bland, text only, html site / pages with all the relevant text so that S/E's log the content but place an image stating "This is a text only site ... to view the full site Click Here", which is an image and therefore the S/E's can't read the button text. Meanwhile clicking the button takes the visitor to the relevant flash page.
The biggest problem with Flash sites is one of anchor links. S/E's can't handle Flash anchor links. There are workarounds but not usable in my opinion. Probably a S/E shortcoming rather than a Flash one.
Last edited by Egg Bramhill; 13 May 2007 at 07:46 AM.
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