: How can I make my flash website more search engine friendly? I've got a website where just about all the content is in a flash movie. Is there anything I can do to improve my search engine

@Dunderdale272

A few links on Flash SWF file indexability:


SWF searchability FAQ (Adobe)
Flash and other rich media files (Google)


What Google has to say is:


Google can now discover and index text
content in SWF files of all kinds,
including self-contained Flash
websites and Flash gadgets such as
buttons or menus. This includes all
textual content visible to the user.
Google supports common JavaScript
techniques. In addition, we can now
find and follow URLs embedded in Flash
files. We'll crawl and index this
content in the same way that we crawl
and index other content on your
site—you don't need to take any
special action. However, we don't
guarantee that we'll crawl or index
all the content, Flash or otherwise.


I've never seen significant search traffic to Flash files.

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@Radia820

When a bot comes to your page you can display all the text contained in the flash instead of the flash. This way you will be able to select what text will be index and your page will have content associated to it.

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@Welton855

Yes you can. This article explains it fairly well.
www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/1007/1/Flash-SEO-Best-Practice/Page1.html
My opinion on the matter (take it or leave it)
It is a real pain in the butt in my opinion. I would highly advise you to abandon an all-flash website. Take the time you would put into making it SEO-friendly and rebuild it using HTML.

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