FLASH Sites - What can you do about your ranking

[Dirtbag]

I run two Flash sites...
Flash is brilliant for designers, video, pictures, & embedded text in a totally creative freedom,

The bummer of the problem is your ability to be seen by search engines. Now I've been designing sites for a while so please don't start replying with the common ways of getting round this and I do know now that ASK, Yahoo and other major search engines are getting on board for reading the flash content

But what about Google, what techniques can you do to help your ability to be searched by Google if you want a total flash site?

Thanks

[Lilly]

Although I believe that it will be a long while before Flash sites are on equal footing with their static page competitors (as far as Google is concerned) there have been reports in the search optimization industry that Google is, in fact, capable of combing through Flash movies for keywords.

A couple of strategies for making Flash sites more receptive to Google indexing:

One is to offer the site in both Flash and static versions, an already common practice.

Second suggestion is to embed Flash files within multiple static pages.

Also, I think Flash has a feature for exporting text into a Web site's metadata (invisible information describing the page to search engines) for easier indexing, however I'm not all that proficient regarding Flash so I may be mistaken.

Lilly

[markov]

Thanx Lilly for the post ! Really one is worried about SEO of flash sites.