[thelist] Flash site and Search Engines

.jeff jeff at members.evolt.org
Thu Dec 5 15:56:01 CST 2002


gregory,

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> From: Gregory Wostrel
>
> Right off the bat, I know that the strict
> usability/purist folks will want to take me out back for
> this.
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oooh, can those of us with an accessibility bone jump in too?

*grin*

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> Now that that is out of the way, I have made a site for
> a Client that is pure Flash. She is supporting it with
> Direct Mail marketing, word of mouth and it really is
> mostly a portfolio site. But it brings up the (not
> critical in this case) question of how best to make it
> find-able by search engines. I figured that in the
> depth of knowledge on this list someone would have
> opinions on this.
> The site is: http://www.requestedpresence.com
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it's already been mentioned that links to your site are important.  that's
overlooking the most obvious and most important -- content.  sure, to the
flash-enabled user there's content (though not alot), but to the non-flash
user (which would include search engines), there's only a paragraph or so of
content on a single page.  that amount of content most surely will not get
your site indexed with any amount of relevance or page rank (far more
important and difficult than just getting your site indexed).

.jeff

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