Hey people, I'm completely new to SEO and all that. I've read a lot of stuff about meta tags, keywords and optimised content and stuff but was wondering how all this worked when it came to flash and database driven content. How does a robot index the content of external files? If it doesn't how do the big news sites or other database driven sites get their articles spidered and on google?! They must be using database driven sites, no?! How about blogs? My site is Flash and although I've heard google's bot now can read text inside flash files, most of my content is going to come from external files and databases... could I stick a page of content with keywords and phrases inside a flash file and simply not show it in the movie? Or is that spamming?! ...very confused... can anyone point to a flash SEO article or give me any tips? Cheers!
make raw html site with your content split into categories etc, and replace (via javascript) content with flash movie for regular visitors so that spider will see just raw content. also add google sitemap
@Basoone: http://www.internet-marketing-analysts.com/Google-Flash_tutorial/ @ MrSupplier thanks for the advice... my site is 100% Flash right now though + all text is from a database... I'm beginning to think it's un-SEO able!
SEO for flash is hard, you need to make sure you only use flash for the presentation of the site and never for the navigation or any links. Search engines only read the html code of the site so they can't tell whether this is generated using a database or some server side include files or scripts. All they see is the final result.