Best SEO Tips for Flash Website?

[fpforum]

Hello All, A company I work for is wanting to improve their search engine rankings. The site is establish..Domain is a good 3-4 years old..has a PR5 with PR4 inner pages..The only problem is, the website is done partially in flash. The menu is done in flash, but the pages themselves are done in PHP

I'm curious what are some of the best tips and tricks for optimizing a site that is done in flash? Here are a few ideas I have..

*Link exchanges (always a must for seo)
*More inner pages with keyword rich text

and thats where i'm stumped. Anyone have some other good suggestions for optimizing a flash based website?

Just so you know, site Here incase you would like to see it

[webd]

Search engines won't reliably follow links embedded in Flash.

Edit: deleted middle section about Flash navigation -- the menu is not done in Flash.

Edit: To learn about how to do SEO on that site I recommend getting some books on SEO and reading them. You can apply the basics to that site -- like unique <title> elements on every page. Adding <h1> headers, etc.

Also, they should remove the audio. Audio that starts playing when a page loads is very annoying to many visitors. It interferes with music that might be playing on the visitor's computer. It's also very annoying when you open up several links in tabs and one of the tabs starts playing music but you can't figure out which one it is.

[Arragon]

add some keyword text in the content and create some anchored text on its footer.

[MDSandB]

Here is what i think may help>> Try link baiting to inner pages of the site to improve its ranking. My site also has flash on it and is fairly new and link baiting has worked for me, i got PR2 for my homepage and PR1 for my inner pages in the recent Google PR update. It was a PR0 earlier.

[stevesko]

recreate the menu and any important text in footer

[zorag]

In other words surround the main flash elements "which are completely useless as far as SEO is concerned" with as much textual content as the page/design would esthetically allow. Bare in mind also, if you have a flash element used as the forefront of a marketing awareness/campaign then this is never going to see light on ANY search engine unless the page also conveys the point in textual content.

Personally, I've never used flash other than for commercial banners and the odd animation, it's of no use on it's own in tandem with a project requiring any amount of SEO - unless you add textual content along with it.

Hope this helps.

[ragesw]

I would recommend the following;

- A footer on each page that duplicates the main sections of the navigations bar
- A purely HTML Sitemap linked directly from the homepage
- A meta description tag and a title tag
- An XML sitemap file submitted to http://www.google.com/sitemaps
Google webmaster tools will actually tell you the pages that do not have enough content on them for their crawlers (ie too much FLASH/javascript etc...)