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Re: Flash and Search Engines From Dennis Savoy on 2 July '99 replying to Flash and Search Engines posted by Marc Hoffman >I make most of my pages 100% Flash, so there is little or no visible >HTML text for the search engines to examine. Therefore I am relying >on a gateway page that is mostly HTML. This gateway page has an >invisible (2x2pixel) Flash3 movie that gets the URL to my "real" >splash page (which is all Flash). That way, if a visitor does not >have Flash3, they will sit on the gateway page, which tells them >how to get the Flash plug-in. > >Long intro. Sorry. Here's the question: My invisible Flash3 movie >on the first page acts, in essence, like a Meta refresh, and >anyone visiting with the Flash3 plug-in will only be there for >a couple of seconds. Are the search engines likely to reject this >site on the same basis as a site with a meta refresh? > >Thanks. I can't answer your question, but we have 3 web pages with Flash, and it seems they don't do has good with SE top ranking. Other web pages we have don't have Flash and I find the ranking is better in SE.

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>>I make most of my pages 100% Flash, so there is little or no visible >>HTML text for the search engines to examine. Therefore I am relying >>on a gateway page that is mostly HTML. This gateway page has an >>invisible (2x2pixel) Flash3 movie that gets the URL to my "real" >>splash page (which is all Flash). That way, if a visitor does not >>have Flash3, they will sit on the gateway page, which tells them >>how to get the Flash plug-in. >> >>Long intro. Sorry. Here's the question: My invisible Flash3 movie >>on the first page acts, in essence, like a Meta refresh, and >>anyone visiting with the Flash3 plug-in will only be there for >>a couple of seconds. Are the search engines likely to reject this >>site on the same basis as a site with a meta refresh? >> >>Thanks. > >I can't answer your question, but we have 3 web pages with Flash, >and it seems they don't do has good with SE top ranking. >Other web pages we have don't have Flash and I find the ranking is better >in SE.