Hello, So I've been starting up a new website that has Flash Games with a 400-500 Word Review of each game. There are separate pages for each game, each page has the Flash Game Embedded and the Review Text for that specific game. It's got me thinking, for SEO reasons, does it matter which I put first on the page, the text review or the game itself? Here's my options and reasons - Text at The Top / Flash Game at The Bottom - Good for Search Engines to read the article straight away so they know what the page is about and can use the keywords etc in the search rankings. But may put off users who only want to play the game and not scroll through the article. or Game at The Top / Text at The Bottom - Users who want to play the game get to it straight away so higher play rate. But when the page gets crawled the search engine has to get through the Flash Player coding first. or 50% Text at Top, Flash Game in Middle, Then Remaining 50% Text at Bottom - Again, this may confuse users who just want to play the game, and it may annoy them that there is text above and below the game. But then the Search Engines has text all around the Flash Game coding. Anyone have any thought's on this and what would you suggest? Andy.
I would recommend: 50% Text at Top, Flash Game in Middle, Then Remaining 50% Text at Bottom Remember to place anchor text within the textual content to link to other important pages within your site. This will help improve keyword performance of different pages within your site. If you would like for me to give you a more detailed example using your site, feel free to MSG.
Thanks for the Advice, This is what I've been doing for now, with around 70% of the Text at the top and 30% at the bottom.
You are welcome... One last thing I wanted to add: Remember to also sparingly use <h1> <h2> <h3> tags along with some bold and italics text when you are able to naturally work it into your content. Doing it all naturally is important for SEO, Google does not like when these tags are overused.
I've added a <h2> Sentence to the Footer of my Site (sitewide) and Bolded text on 2 Keyword Phrases on my Home Page. I only have 8 pages of content so far while I'm getting it the way I like it and trying to keep the SEO natural as you said. Is your SEO Service free by the way?