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and my all-flash index page is on google's 4th page - i dont subscribe to any search engine optimizations. ****************************************** --> Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) --> www.mudbubble.com :: www.keyframer.com --> http://flashmx2004.com/forums/index.php? --> http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/animation_guide.html --> http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search?q=group:*flash*&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 [quoted text, click to view] aphexkx wrote:
> i understand that it is a bad idea to have a big block of flash for search > engines finding your site, but i love flash and you can create the best > effects/interavtivity by using the whole page. Ive read countless articles, im > waiting for my Macromedia Flash File Format (SWF) Specification software (not > really sure what thats all about anyway) but basically i want my sites to get > good search engine results without having to cut up and play down my > animations. can anyone pass on any knowledge from their own experience or > methods. thanks for any input. :D > > aphexkx
i always hear and read very different thoughts on this. Here's what I have found:
http://flashmx2004.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3810 http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum104/259.htm http://www.webrankinfo.com/english/seo-news/topic-6598.htm http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=454163&seqNum=2&rl=1 http://www.webpronews.com/ebusiness/seo/wpn-4-20040907GoogleCanNowIndexFlashAnInterviewwithMichaelMarshall.html ****************************************** --> Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) --> www.mudbubble.com :: www.keyframer.com --> http://flashmx2004.com/forums/index.php? --> http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/animation_guide.html --> http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search?q=group:*flash*&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 [quoted text, click to view] cygon wrote:
> chris, your page comes up in the engine but it's not the content in your flash > movie that google is reading. it's your page title and the text between your > <noscript> tags. your page also comes up under "flash animator" becuase it's a > popular site. and other sites link back to you. > > from a conversation I had with a frined of mine who works for google, google > does not have the ability to "read" the content in a swf file...yet. the engine > is still slow to index and crawl pdfs but that's another topic. google will > index the page the flash movie embeded in however. > > your best bet with SOE and flash is to have your descriptions and keywords in > place.
i see what you are saying but my page title does not have the keywords "flash" or "animator" in it.
It may be due to links from other sites i am sure. but page 4 of google just because of links from others? perhaps - just seems like such a general term and page 4 being pretty high up there. [quoted text, click to view] cygon wrote:
> chris, your page comes up in the engine but it's not the content in your flash > movie that google is reading. it's your page title and the text between your > <noscript> tags. your page also comes up under "flash animator" becuase it's a > popular site. and other sites link back to you. > > from a conversation I had with a frined of mine who works for google, google > does not have the ability to "read" the content in a swf file...yet. the engine > is still slow to index and crawl pdfs but that's another topic. google will > index the page the flash movie embeded in however. > > your best bet with SOE and flash is to have your descriptions and keywords in > place.
i understand that it is a bad idea to have a big block of flash for search
engines finding your site, but i love flash and you can create the best effects/interavtivity by using the whole page. Ive read countless articles, im waiting for my Macromedia Flash File Format (SWF) Specification software (not really sure what thats all about anyway) but basically i want my sites to get good search engine results without having to cut up and play down my animations. can anyone pass on any knowledge from their own experience or methods. thanks for any input. :D aphexkx
chris, your page comes up in the engine but it's not the content in your flash
movie that google is reading. it's your page title and the text between your <noscript> tags. your page also comes up under "flash animator" becuase it's a popular site. and other sites link back to you. from a conversation I had with a frined of mine who works for google, google does not have the ability to "read" the content in a swf file...yet. the engine is still slow to index and crawl pdfs but that's another topic. google will index the page the flash movie embeded in however. your best bet with SOE and flash is to have your descriptions and keywords in place.
your key words play a big part in this too.
<META Name="Keywords" content="animation, animator, flash animation, flash animator, animating, animations, artist, art, film, video, flash mx, flash, macromedia flash, shockwave, freelance, multimedia, interactive, freelance, designer, design, art, communication, web, 2d, 2.5D, illustrator, webdesigner, graphics, media, interactive, artist, arts"> you have "flash animator" in your key words and no where else on your index page, not even in the content of the flash file. You also have a popular site that been out ther for a while, allowing others to have a stable link to you.
correct - but i have read from too many posts and various sources that google does not use META tags
- I am not cliaming what is true or not true - i don't know the exact technology behind various search engines - but there seems to be a lot of information and articles out there about how google parses text in SWF files - yet when I read public discussions about it, there is always somebody who knows someone who is an employee/developer/otherwise for the actual search engine company who claims it isn't true. \ You said your friend who worls for google says google can not search flash files - yet on google's site this is easily found: http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=4302&query=flash&topic=0&type=f "Google does index pages that use Macromedia Flash. However, our crawlers may experience problems indexing Flash pages. If you're concerned that Flash content on your pages may be inhibiting Google's ability to crawl your site, you may want to consider using a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site. If features such as Flash keep you from seeing all of your site in a text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site..." So this is admittedly confusing to read one thing then read another saying the complete opposite. Does your google friend know google can index flash pages? just curious. ****************************************** [quoted text, click to view] cygon wrote:
> your key words play a big part in this too. > > <META Name="Keywords" content="animation, animator, flash animation, flash > animator, animating, animations, artist, art, film, video, flash mx, flash, > macromedia flash, shockwave, freelance, multimedia, interactive, freelance, > designer, design, art, communication, web, 2d, 2.5D, illustrator, webdesigner, > graphics, media, interactive, artist, arts"> > > you have "flash animator" in your key words and no where else on your index > page, not even in the content of the flash file. You also have a popular site > that been out ther for a while, allowing others to have a stable link to you. > >
[quoted text, click to view] > from a conversation I had with a frined of mine who works for google, google > does not have the ability to "read" the content in a swf file...yet. the engine > is still slow to index and crawl pdfs but that's another topic. google will > index the page the flash movie embeded in however. > I realize you may have meant "content" meaning graphics, images, etc...anything other than text used
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