[thelist] Re: Is flash always bad - how Google deals with flash

[Cayley Vos]

I imagine you will find this a flash hostile list. For practicality, flash is
diificult for normal users to use:

print page rarely works
you cannot email a user a link or send people to a specific page
broken back button
can be very slow on non broadband connections
invisible to search engines
can be difficult to update - only a flash programmer can make major changes


http://ask-marketing-experts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=24&highlight=flash


> Does anyone out there have any suggestions or methods etc to improve
> search
> engine stuff for flash only websites.

the following will help:
good keywords and description,
place all the external links from your flash app in a comment tag
put the copy from the flash site in a comment tag
use the noembed tag to insert structured (h1, p etc) html of the
important copy

when you publish your flash file you should have the comment tags there
to update
ie
<!-- urls used in the movie -->
<!-- text used in the movie -->

apart from building a text only version of the site, this seems to be
the best you can do.

ben




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