What is necessary to do for optimizing Flash sites?

Discussion in 'Google' started by itsupportservice, Mar 11, 2010.

0
  1. #1
    What is necessary to do for optimizing Flash sites?
     
    itsupportservice, Mar 11, 2010 IP
  2. abhishekseo

    abhishekseo Peon

    Messages:
    141
    Likes Received:
    0
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #2
    no need to do anything because now crawler cache flash and you have to SEO and you should do SEO work as per regular no extar effort should be in SEO
     
    abhishekseo, Mar 11, 2010 IP
  3. berg101

    berg101 Peon

    Messages:
    327
    Likes Received:
    0
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #3
    Flash files still are not a good idea for your websites, if used SEO can be done in the code or Alt tags.
     
    berg101, Mar 11, 2010 IP
  4. cngamemart

    cngamemart Guest

    Messages:
    105
    Likes Received:
    1
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #4
    that's really not a good idea when you choose to use flash.it seems only google can snap it.
     
    cngamemart, Mar 11, 2010 IP
  5. nickjason

    nickjason Peon

    Messages:
    414
    Likes Received:
    6
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #5
    Here are a few tips for optimizing Flash;

    1. Input Meta - This approach is often underestimated and misunderstood by many. Although metadata is not as important to search engines as it used to be, Flash development tools have an option to easily add metadata to your animation, so there shouldn't be any excuse as to why you won't enter it.

    2. SDK Tool - Also known as the swf2html tool. It will extract text from the Flash file and convert it into a simple HTML document (saves the time and effort of doing it manually). You will be able to directly see what the search engine spiders will see when they crawl your flash file.

    3. SWFObject 2 - Another SEO tip is in the use of CSS element..div (it has search engine accessible content); associated with a JavaScript function is what SWFObject plugin is about. This plugin is a must use to optimize Flash. It may not cause your site to spectacularly rank in search engines but it will definitely eliminate most ranking disadvantages of Flash.

    Provide alternative pages - It definitely requires more work to create separate HTML pages but the reward is worth (a good ranking on search engines). If the visitor wants to view it in Flash, they will see it. Otherwise, there is alternative HTML version, which is also 'crawlable' by search engines for indexing.

    4. Check that your Flash links point to HTML pages and not to other Flash pages

    5. Create descriptive Page Titles and Meta Descriptions

    6. The NOSCRIPT tag - It is similar to the approach of using the NOFRAME tag to optimize sites using frames. SCRIPT element displays the Flash site for users with scripting enabled and the NOSCRIPT element displays the HTML site for users, screen readers and search engines with scripting disabled. This tag is often forgotten but is of immense importance to optimize Flash.
     
    nickjason, Mar 11, 2010 IP