Comments on: Flash and Search Engine Placement Debunking: Part 1 https://jessewarden.com/2004/08/flash-and-search-engine-placement-debunking-part-1.html Software | Fitness | Gaming Fri, 06 Aug 2004 18:43:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: JesterXL https://jessewarden.com/2004/08/flash-and-search-engine-placement-debunking-part-1.html/comment-page-1#comment-1928 Fri, 06 Aug 2004 18:43:05 +0000 http://jessewarden.com/?p=591#comment-1928 Good point about the SWF text in and out… it’ll definately take a few months to hash out each variable, assuming their algo’s stay constant, which is doubtful. Still, it’s fun to try!

]]> By: disc7 https://jessewarden.com/2004/08/flash-and-search-engine-placement-debunking-part-1.html/comment-page-1#comment-1927 Fri, 06 Aug 2004 17:04:01 +0000 http://jessewarden.com/?p=591#comment-1927 Thanks. If anyone’s up for helping to promote the Flash Movie Test please only link through to this page (www.disc7.com/flash-movie-test/).

Regarding Mark’s how to obtimize Flash article, James Ellis wrote a technique that goes into more detail and looks at the practicalities of loading a HTML version of a Flash site for bots and redirecting SERP traffic to the Flash version if they have the correct Flash player version installed.

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/accessible-flash-parts-1-2

The trouble I have with this method is for most clients its not a viable option to expect them to pay extra for effectively two versions of the same site. It is tho recommended as an excellent method for getting multiple pages within a Flash site to rank well.

Also both articles are slightly dated now in the fact that Google appear to be able to index text within SWF files.

One last point, it may be no coincidence that while Google seems to be trying to stamp out Google bombs (detailed here: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/000685.html) they’ve also added SWF text indexing that may counter Flash only sites being penalised for the terms not appearing within the pages content.

]]> By: JesterXL https://jessewarden.com/2004/08/flash-and-search-engine-placement-debunking-part-1.html/comment-page-1#comment-1926 Fri, 06 Aug 2004 16:14:09 +0000 http://jessewarden.com/?p=591#comment-1926 Great article David, thank you! I’m thinking if instead of loading your content via .txt files, you load it instead from vanilla .html files, that is a better to have multiple pages that are the content for your main Flash file.

]]> By: David Urech https://jessewarden.com/2004/08/flash-and-search-engine-placement-debunking-part-1.html/comment-page-1#comment-1925 Fri, 06 Aug 2004 15:48:29 +0000 http://jessewarden.com/?p=591#comment-1925 use html basics

– Place your content within <noscript> tags
– Place your content within <object> tags
– Use keyword descriptive <title> tags
– Use keyword descriptive <meta> tags

source:
http://www.search-this.com/website_promotion/optimize_Flash.aspx

]]> By: JesterXL https://jessewarden.com/2004/08/flash-and-search-engine-placement-debunking-part-1.html/comment-page-1#comment-1924 Fri, 06 Aug 2004 04:59:56 +0000 http://jessewarden.com/?p=591#comment-1924 Disc7, that is tight! That is definately along the lines of what I wanted to do.

That last article has great information, thanks for the link! Question 1 should of been worded differently; they asked a key question in architecture of the Flash, and how you should do it. I like how their main solution is link building. Thinking inside the box, most would focus on just the site itself, but using the blog spammer’s and google bomber tactics, that is another great way to help. You rock man, thanks a lot for the info. I’m not really sure what to add to the SWF file itself your testing… you kind of hit it all!

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