SEO and Flash, can they ever be friends

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January 5, 2009
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Hi All,

I have recently been questioning the SEO side of things; and am currently trying to better optimize my site. I use quite a lot of flash on my site, and it sorted dawned on me that Flash is doing me no favours when it comes down to SEO - I will need to get a good ranking, as this year I will be putting a lot of money and time into making our site a success story ;)

Am I a little green on this or what?

Anyone know any tips/tricks on how best to bring SEO and Flash together, to better work in page ranking?

What do folks with totally 100% Flash sites do when it comes down to SEO? As there is only a few meta tags and title tag available?

I love Flash, and would never let go! However, this SEO thing will always be a "Flash Avoidance" for new clients; how can one best assure them that Flash provides more than just a better brand image?

A few weeks ago, a potential client stated "I would never have a flash menu".

Kind Regards,

Boxing Boom

ActionScript

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kglad

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i suspect there are books on this subject and there's certainly a lot more info than can be posted in a forum.

for my part, when i care about search engine placement, i add html text (that can easily be spidered by search engines) to the bottom of my flash-embedding html page. i use a tiny font that has the same color as the page's background so no human sees the text unless they check the html source code.

but google is spidering flash content now and i see they have kglad.com in first position when searching for kglad. (and that site has no non-flash content and no "invisible" text.)

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Boxing_BoomAuthor

Inspiring

Hi Kglad,

Thanks for your contribution to this thread. Interesting, about searching for kglad; however, what happens when someone searches for "flash consulting services" ? How do you rank, regarding these keywords?

Without question, you are probably one of the best AS2-AS3 ActionScripters out there, but are you loosing out to lesser able folk (MONEY), due to your SEO? Just a line of thought ;)

As ever, your feedback is always appreciated ;)

Anyone else got similiar method(s)?

SOME FREE SEO TOOLS: www.pagerank.net

And Kglads response lead me to search and find this:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/improved-flash-indexing.html

And this is also exciting:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/swf_searchability.html

Something worth showing to my next customer ;) Happy Days!

Kind Regards,

Boxing Boom

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