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Re: Flash and search engines? From Ęsmail Salur at Net Tourism Limited on 14 March '01 replying to Re: Flash and search engines? posted by David A You may freely submit your flash site to listings like yahoo but most of the search engines like altavista looks for plain text-html (also meta tags)I tried a way to avoid this.In my index.html (entrance page-its background color is white) I wrote some text about the company in white color(so you cant see the text if you dont select it) and by using javascript I opened a popup window which contains the main flash movie. Some search engines accepted this but I am waiting for the major ones. They must support flash animated sites. >>>My company is having our website completely redesigned, and the guy >>>who's doing it has designed it entirely as a flash movie. I'm >>>wondering how the search engines will view it. It looks really cool, >>>but loads really slowly, and there's no visible text. Would a >>>hybrid page of flash and html work better? >>> >>>Is flash the wave of the future, or another monstrosity like frames? >>> >>>You can look at a prototype of the site at >>>http://www.virtuedesigns.com/xltrans/comp19.html >>> >>>Keep in mind that this site is not yet finished. Also, I've found >>>that clicking on any of the links tends to crash your browser. >> >> >> >>Very beautiful and creative. > >I think that search engines will not like it, as it is missing many of the elements they look for.

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>You may freely submit your flash site to listings like yahoo but most of the search engines like altavista looks for plain text-html (also meta tags)I tried a way to avoid this.In my index.html (entrance page-its background color is white) I wrote some text about the company in white color(so you cant see the text if you dont select it) and by using javascript I opened a popup window which contains the main flash movie. Some search engines accepted this but I am waiting for the major ones. They must support flash animated sites. > > >>>>My company is having our website completely redesigned, and the guy >>>>who's doing it has designed it entirely as a flash movie. I'm >>>>wondering how the search engines will view it. It looks really cool, >>>>but loads really slowly, and there's no visible text. Would a >>>>hybrid page of flash and html work better? >>>> >>>>Is flash the wave of the future, or another monstrosity like frames? >>>> >>>>You can look at a prototype of the site at >>>>http://www.virtuedesigns.com/xltrans/comp19.html >>>> >>>>Keep in mind that this site is not yet finished. Also, I've found >>>>that clicking on any of the links tends to crash your browser. >>> >>> >>> >>>Very beautiful and creative. >> >>I think that search engines will not like it, as it is missing many of the elements they look for.