[thelist] Flash site and Search Engines

[Gregory Wostrel]

On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 04:54  PM, .jeff wrote:

> gregory,
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>> From: Gregory Wostrel
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>> 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*
>

Absolutely! Take the jump!

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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).
>
>

Since the site is not a mass market type it isn't such an issue, as I
mentioned. For a site with broad appeal and much text content I would
have recommended against the use of Flash (I have my accessibility
moments!). So maybe the best direction here is to look for relevant
sites to trade some links with.

Gregory