Comments on: SEO : Best use of Flash in Webby http://www.profitingideas.com/2008/03/05/seo-best-use-of-flash-in-webby/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:22:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Dmitriy http://www.profitingideas.com/2008/03/05/seo-best-use-of-flash-in-webby/#comment-350 Dmitriy Fri, 23 May 2008 23:16:52 +0000 http://www.profitingideas.com/2008/03/05/seo-best-use-of-flash-in-webby/#comment-350 I am a flash developer and I am amazed by the number of sites that say how you should not build a what appears to be a 100% flash site, because it would be a death to your search engine optimization. To make a long story short, all you need to do is use a system like sIFR that would display your flash content over html, xml or xhtml layout. That means that if a user or a bot visits your site without javascript or flash they will see your html-style layout (that's what google's or any other search engine's bot would see). There you go problem solved, you can have a 100% looking flash site to all those that have flash and a 100% html or xml-based site to all your visitors that cannot see flash(like search engine bots). So, you would have to develop a flash application that would parse and display the contents of a for example, xhtml page that would be displayed behind the 100% flash site and not visible to usual browsers like Firefox or IE. Problem solved! Use as much flash as you want on your site, this will not hurt you SEO as long as you set up your site properly. Don't listen to people that say you'd pretty much be stupid to build your site using tons of flash. 90% of those people base their knowledge on similar articles. I am a flash developer and I am amazed by the number of sites that say how you should not build a what appears to be a 100% flash site, because it would be a death to your search engine optimization. To make a long story short, all you need to do is use a system like sIFR that would display your flash content over html, xml or xhtml layout. That means that if a user or a bot visits your site without javascript or flash they will see your html-style layout (that’s what google’s or any other search engine’s bot would see). There you go problem solved, you can have a 100% looking flash site to all those that have flash and a 100% html or xml-based site to all your visitors that cannot see flash(like search engine bots).

So, you would have to develop a flash application that would parse and display the contents of a for example, xhtml page that would be displayed behind the 100% flash site and not visible to usual browsers like Firefox or IE.

Problem solved! Use as much flash as you want on your site, this will not hurt you SEO as long as you set up your site properly.

Don’t listen to people that say you’d pretty much be stupid to build your site using tons of flash. 90% of those people base their knowledge on similar articles.

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