Prepare Your Flash Website for Search Engines
Author: Shilpi
Category: Internet
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Flash Web sites always pose great challenge to Web site designers. The reason: search engines are text based whereas Flash files generally do not contain text contents. "In order to be crawled and indexed, your content needs to be in text format," says a Google SEO Help document. Google, however, states you can include images, Flash files, videos and other rich media contents on your Web site, provided any content you embed in these files should also be available in text format; otherwise, it won't be accessible to search engines. The above statement is encouraging in the sense that Google is not hostile towards Flash Web sites with text contents.
Google and Adobe recently announced an algorithm to index text contained in the Flash file. This is good news for Web site owners as well as custom Web site design service providers. However, there is still problem associated with some of the Flash contents, especially those using JavaScript. If any Web page loads a Flash file via JavaScript, it may not get indexed in Google. Google is further investing on techniques that would favor Flash files, so we can hope that a better Flash-friendly search engine strategy will be in place in the near future.
There are ways to optimize a Flash Web site for search engines, but it involves a great deal of effort from the part of designers. Many web development India agencies offer custom Web site design services, including the design of search-engine friendly Flash Web sites. If you plan to launch a multimedia Web site, it is ideal to take help from any of these Web site design agents in India, who are aware of various SEO techniques. Being attractive does not mean that the Web site functions properly. To gain business out of your Web site, you need to optimize its contents according to the search engine logics.
Some Flash Web sites contain all content and navigation links within a single Flash movie embedded in a single HTML page. This is a major disadvantage for the Web site in terms of SEO because the search engines assume it as a single page, so individual pages of the Web site will not be optimized. Generally, each page of a Web site is ranked differently. Having multiple pages with different page ranking is beneficial for SEO. Therefore, it is essential that you re-design the Web site, giving priority to SEO. Web design services in India address various such issues associated with optimizing Flash Web sites.
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Date Submitted: 3/5/2009
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