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Can anyone here could tell me that why it is said that SE have difficulty in crawling flash websites and since flash websites are having high Pr. Why is it so.

Flash sites has the scripts that are not able to read by SE but I had often seen that flash websites that goes for PPC have done good in SE.

Flash-based websites are becoming more important and popular on the Internet. Sadly, Flash websites are not exactly SEO-friendly. If you want to improve the indexing (and hopefully ranking) of your flash-based website, keep reading.

Historically, it has been difficult to get Flash content indexed and ranked by search engines. In the past, search engines, such as Yahoo and Google, did not spider Flash content as they could not read the compressed file and much of the text inside the SWF appeared as graphics to the search engines. The main page of a web site, if Flash-based, rarely ranked well, unless off-page factors such as link popularity or link reputation were sufficient enough to carry the page. Flash files that were indexed by Google, Lycos and other search engines, which did not have any text or key words associated with them in the search engine results pages (SERP).

One of the best ways to get a pretty good idea of what your Flash files will look like once search engines index them is to use Macromedia's Flash Search Engine SDK. Using the SDK can give you a Google's-eye view of what your Flash files look like to search engines. Unfortunately, the often-jumbled output that you are likely to see stands as reinforcement for why you should not entertain much hope that search engines will parse your Flash files and actually get things right.

flash sites can only have high PR, but not on traffic specially organic traffic....

most of the SEO specialist do some special task where they can make their own flash websites can crawl and index by search engines, i wonder how they do it....

Flash web sites are not SEO friendly but flash website also ranks the efforts behind it is double than normal sites.

jhonsean wrote:

seenathkumar wrote:Flash web sites are not SEO friendly but flash website also ranks the efforts behind it is double than normal sites.

How do you say that Flash web sites are not SEO friendly? I would like to know and clear something. Any concerns much appreciated.

Yes, I am also looking to know more about Flash site optimization. Sure there are some special tricks that some how optimize this short of web site. Ranking to day is mostly dependent on off page optimization than on page so ranking may need hard work but possible for search engines.

Karan Singh wrote:Can anyone here could tell me that why it is said that SE have difficulty in crawling flash websites and since flash websites are having high Pr. Why is it so.

Flash websites just contain Flash images that run as a movie and no content, hence search engines cannot recognize even it there are any content on the flash templates or movies, as all those are considered as images.
Hence, if you plan for a flash website, do not go for an entire flash website. Flash never hurts, if there are HTML content on the website too. So, have some HTML content and then use Flash movies, which will make your website not only attractive, but also search Engine friendly.

Thanks for sharing the information regarding seo for flash websites as I dint knew much about it..

here is some steps to follow for flash site seo according to webconfs.com


Input metadata
This is a very important approach, although it is often underestimated and misunderstood. Although metadata is not as important to search engines as it used to be, Flash development tools allow easily to add metadata to your movies, so there is no excuse to leave the metadata fields empty.


Provide alternative pages
For a good site it is a must to provide html only pages that do not force the user to watch the Flash movie. Preparing these pages requires more work but the reward is worth because not only users, but search engines as well will see the html only pages.


Flash Search Engine SDK
This is the life-belt. The most advanced tool to extract text from a Flash movie. One of the handiest applications in the Flash Search Engine SDK is the tool named swf2html. As it name implies, this tool extracts text and links from a Macromedia Flash file and writes the output unto a standard HTML document, thus saving you the tedious job to do it manually.
However, you still need to have a look at the extracted contents and correct it, if necessary. For example, the order in which the text and links is arranged might need a little restructuring in order to put the keyword-rich content in the title and headings or in the beginning of the page.
Also, you need to check if there is no duplicate content among the extracted sentences and paragraphs. The font color of the extracted text is also another issue. If the font color of the extracted text is the same as the background color, you will run into hidden text territory.




SE-Flash.com
Here is a tool that visually shows what from your Flash files is visible to search engines and what is not. This tool is very useful, even if you already have the Flash Search Engine SDK installed because it provides one more check of the accuracy of the extracted text. Besides, it is not certain that Google and the other search engines use Flash Search Engine SDK to get contents from a Flash file, so this tool might give completely different results from those that the SDK will produce.

These approaches are just some of the most important examples of how to optimize Flash sites. There are many other approaches as well. However, not all of them are brilliant and clear, or they can be classified on the boundary of ethical SEO – e.g. creating invisible layers of text that is delivered to spiders instead the Flash movie itself. Although this technique is not wrong – i.e. there is no duplicate or fake content, it is very similar to cloaking and doorway pages and it is better to avoid it.

Karan Singh wrote:Can anyone here could tell me that why it is said that SE have difficulty in crawling flash websites and since flash websites are having high Pr. Why is it so.

do same techniques just add your flesh keywords tags and start same way of optimization whatever your are using as yet...

Hello.........

Yes, It is correct that Flash website would take a long time to get rank in google because google does nor identify flash script.........

Well flash website are engaged with java scripts, so crawlers face some problem to read them properly. I am not sure but it might be possible that crawler read it after long time.