Shockwave Flash and SEO

[rawkinrich]

Hi,

Just a quick question - Shockwave Flash obviuosly cannot be spidered with the text etc can it?

For example http://mainmankennels.deep-ice.com/ - only the meta tags will be considered? It would be easier and more effective to write the site in HTML so SEO can tan affect?

Any help/advice is great.

Thanks
Richard

[DogFaceBoy]

That is the downfall of flash. Looks attractive but does not attract.

[rawkinrich]

That is the downfall of flash. Looks attractive but does not attract.

So basically, having a website completely in flash is completely useless for SEO..

Correct?

Thanks mate,
Richard

[Gerakus]

So basically, having a website completely in flash is completely useless for SEO..

Correct?

Thanks mate,
Richard

I remember you can SEO a flash site, but it would require some work, i am not sure if it would requiere to convert the whole flash site into parts or whatever, but i am pretty sure it can be SEO.

Also try to reasearch about cms flash on google, your may find something useful from that.

[rawkinrich]

Thanks lads,

Rich

[Blarian]

A lot of times SEO'ing a flash site can be like trying to teach a horse to swim, but depending on the site you may be able to get some results (depending on what % of flash it is, how it is coded, etc.)

[marly]

break it up - full flash/shockwave sites are not good. Depending on the design, where there is text in the content make it plain html. It's really a downfall of Macromedia or embeded applications.

My advice is not to use flash at all. If you must use it, make it minimum.