I have a website with an URL that was selected for content reasons, but it is not the Name of my business. My advertising shows the name of the business, not the URL. Therefore people searching for my business on the net would not be able to find it. To allow potential customers to find me, I plan on getting a new URL in the name of the business and putting up a Flash Entry Page (name-of-business.index). I would then have the "ENTER" button on the flash page point to the URL that is NOT the name of the business. Which leads to my questions: 1. Is there a way to get the engines to index the URL of the Flash Page (name-of-business.index) with only this flash page? 2. Will Google consider the flash page to be a redirect page and ban it? 3. Can anyone suggest an alternative method using a flash page?
I don't think you'd want to use Flash. What about customers who don't want to have the Flash Player? Dial-up users? The blind? I'm not totally sure I understand the situation you mean, but if you just want a redirect page, you could maybe just do it in regular html: In the <head> area, you can have a <meta> tag saying this: <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;url=http://www.yourrealwebsite.com"> Code (markup): The 5 is number of seconds you want the user to sit on your page before it sends them to the real site. I dunno how long you want the page to sit there-- also, the user has no choice to hit ENTER nor can they use the Back button which sucks. But this way does work. It'd be nice if it has some content on it, though, like a description of why there is a redirect... and if the redirect has the same header, footer, colours, otherwise looks like your site, that'd be nice too. Otherwise, you can have a page with a main link to your business that people can choose to click. This would not get any google bans. The last thing is to change your advertising. It can't be that hard. Name of Business, with url in tiny letters on the bottom. If they are clickable advertisements, then of course clicking on them will take them to your main site. No problems. Flash pages are, though, a pain in the ass. The user's browser has to load this big ugly Flash movie before getting to the goods.