Webmaster Forum / Flash / Flash Site Design / April 2007

not really, flash is still not a good buddy for the search engines all I can say is include good meta tags that is about all you can do

Actually there is a heck of a lot more you can do.  

Read up on a thing called SWFObject.  - http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/

SWFObject allows you to "hide content under" your primary Flash content.  The
search engines are able to crawl the text to help you get your content inside
the Flash based site seen.  

This is just one method of doing it.  You can also use PHP and a few other
technologies to capture "bot" traffic (web/search-crawlers) and flush different
content to the bots than you would the browser.

1) the latest version of flash is Adobe Flash CS3 (Flash 9)
2) dynamic text in swf indexed by google.

dynamic text in swf is indexed by google.....  not as well as most would think.
content injection still proves a more reliable method than trusting in googles
backend to get it right.  Secondly, google isn't the only engine out there so
you still need to handle their nuances as well.

I've tried another way using php, not sure is it a proper way, but so far it is
quite efficient. Check this site http://www.muzakraf.com/

1 website, 1 php, multiple swf files, 1 for each page, pages swf loaded into 1
main swf. Each page of the flash site indexed by those major search engine.

http://www.google.com.my/search?hl=en&q=site%3Awww.muzakraf.com&meta=

http://search.msn.com.my/results.aspx?q=site%3Awww.muzakraf.com&form=QBRE


http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch?p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.muzakraf.com&b
wmf=d&bwm=p&bwms=p

May be there are some other better way. Give me some feedback too.