Flash SEO

[sanitarium]

Does somebody have any experience in search engine optimization for flash based websites ?

[sanitarium]

@ admin , can you please move the post to the SEO section

[D856C]

Based on what I've read, the idea that "search engines can now read Flash" is misleading.

First, take flash only sites. Usually it is very handy to optimize for certain search phrases on certain HTML pages. If you have one flash file, you only have the option of one set of keywords. The SE's do index, but interpret the single flash file as one page.

It's highly suggested to do a hybrid site of html with inserted minimal flash. Another way to go is a progressive layout technique like U.F.O. (Unobtrusive Flash Objects)

SEO can be done with Flash design, but it's not as easy as the flash fans like to make it out with "search engines automagically index site content now" spiel.

Articles you may find informative:

Search Engine Optimization for Flash Websites. We did it, here’s how. The issue is not that you can't optimize flash for SEO and accessibility -- it's the amazing backflips you have to perform to do it.

JK Rowling site goes accessible Flash route "On the one hand, it demonstrates how accessible a Flash-based site can be. On the other, it shows how many expensive experts it may take to make a deep Flash site accessible."

Unobtrusive Flash Objects "...designed to support W3C standards compliant, accessible and search engine friendly web design. It also contains several features and best practice techniques that other scripts currently don't have."

Due to the Flash designer focus on actionscript and the non-flash community really doing nothing more than bashing flash, there are very few people who produce actual solutions to the problems. UFO is one such solution.

Many times even though you are currently using a flash website, the only layer of the website that this hurts is the fact that you have no "Fresh Content" readable by search engines by your site, all this means is you are going to have to use "Anchor Text" to take the search engine rankings that you are trying to get, this is how you would be able to succesfully promote a website that had no kind of Content as well as possible get your flash website some PR.

[Mack]

What you do is put HTML content on your index. What i would recommend is taking your flash site's index and make an html Sitemap that sits underneath the flash content. clicking it opens a div to show content that is contained on your site. And, if you know how to link inside flash content... then you can put direct links to differnet sections within flash.

[Business]

It is mention in google design guideline that google cannot read the text from the picture. So If you cannot use flash to get top SERP. All my website always design using html.