Google doesn't read the flash text in my flash website. This is because I use movie clips within other movie clips. I wondered if anyone knew a workaround or trick that I could use to get text into google. I have a couple ideas but they're just ideas. I would like to create an alternate page that is not flash, but a regular html page with all of the text I want google to read inside it. Somehow I use code to tell it that when a user clicks on the link, to redirect them to the flash webpage, but when a search engine sees it, to send the search engine/google to that regular html page, where it will gather all of the text and then that text will show up on google's page when you do a search and my site on google? Even if this was possible, would google frown upon this and ban me or something? The other idea I have is to use invisible text at the bottom of my page. This will be regular html text that is the same color as my background. But I heard this can get you banned from search engines like google if you are using lots of keywords, but I wouldn't be using keywords. I'd be using the few sentences of content that their stupid crappy technology doesn't read, forcing me to bust my hump trying to find a workaround for. It sucks that google doesn't even use keywords in my metadata for rankings either. So I can't even use that with them. Anyone got some ideas/info? Thanks in advance. [TABLE] [/TABLE]
I'm not sure if this would help, but I've used <label> tags before in my html. I've always read that search engines have a tough time crawling flash sites.
Ugh, flash websites. You can't cut and paste from them, crawlers can't read them, they're slow, and whenever I hit one I instantly close it (or look puzzled because my flashblocker isn't showing anything). Isn't there a boring default thing you can do if the visitor doesn't have flash?
You could try flash detection to serve alternate content with users that have no flash. kirupa.com/developer/mx/detection.htm
You should try and avoid the using of excessive flash and images in your site. If you have images then you should use the <alt> tag and then use keywords in it. If you use flash and then there must be some alternative for that as well.