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smmforum - 19 Dec 2006 06:16 GMT

Hi! I am semi-skilled with Flash and HTML and SEO for HTML. A friend got me a
job building a website for a lawyer friend of his (let's call him Joe Smith). I
showed him some templates, and he fell in love with a full-Flash site. The good
news is that I built his site easily using this template and it looks
fantastic. He really likes it.

But... I did not know beforehand that search engines are blind to full-Flash
sites. And he has voiced his need to see his name indexed well by Google. I
have researched this a bit and I now realize that the best solution is to build
him an HTML companion to the Flash site, but I can't do it in a short span of
time. I feel bad - he's already paid me, but I can't just tell him "I don't
know", because my friend's reputation is at stake for recommending me. I need
to get this fixed in the next few days. Can someone please explain a simpler
way to have Google show his site as a result when a person searches for "Joe
Smith"? (note: his web address is www.smithlaw.com)

Thank you so much for your help!

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The Feldkircher - 19 Dec 2006 11:47 GMT

Hi

Seems a simple solution - create a single index.html containg all your Meta tags for google/yahoo to search.

When the visitor arrives at your index.html just redirect them to your flash site.

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smmforum - 19 Dec 2006 19:12 GMT

Thanks for responding Feldkircher! :smile;

I contemplated that - it seems easy enough. But I also thought I read that the
search engines frown upon that practice as some sort of spam?? I could be
wrong. :confused; Unless another (better) method is suggested, I'll probably
try this out.

Another method I read up on is to place the Flash site inside a frameset?
Anyone here ever do that? I have no clue on that one...

Once again, I greatly appreciate your assistance Feldkircher! :cool;

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Peter Blumenthal - 20 Dec 2006 10:14 GMT

Have you Googled this?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=fla
sh+seo+optimization&spell=1

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The Feldkircher - 20 Dec 2006 19:40 GMT

Hi

I would avoid framesets, there difficult to maintain at the best of times
within html. Probably a bigger nightmare for Flash.

If you have access to Dreamweaver, then create your index.html with your flash
site embeded.
This way you can create all your meta tags in the header and have your flash
site in the body -
no redirect and its visible to web-crawlers.

Hope it helps

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-jc- - 26 Dec 2006 22:35 GMT

Meta tags are not used by Google anymore and pretty much ignored by other
current SEs. You need a page with real spider visible (text) content, inbound
links and outbound links, etc., etc. I'd recommend you do a search at
webmasterworld on "Flash".

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