My site not indexed past the home page

[Andrew Hardscape]

Hello All,

This past winter I has a guy build my company a new web site.

It appears none of the search engines are getting past the home page.

My site DOES have a flash feature, but the designer and engineer swear that because it has hidden DIV, that the flash is not blocking anything. I do not completely believe them.

Can someone please look at my site and tell me what is wrong?

www.outdoorfinishes.com

Also, I am not sure the other pages are linking with the home page. My web designerr said he will add links. What do you think?


Thanks in anticipation,
Andrew Hardscape

[TexSurance.US]

Flash AND Frames ???????????????????????????????

Damn Bro

In my opinion ( others here are smarter than me but ) you should do:

Fisrt and foremost I would cut back on the flash and use a little more html.

* don't use flash header, use the flash under an html header.
- you should have some kind of html navagation.
- be it primary or secondary

so to keep solution simple and cheap, above your flash website,
add a simple link ( not the skip link below ) to an html vesion of site.

* problem solved.

Secondly, consider NOT using Frames, at least not in the html version of your site.

Again problem solved. It should take less than 1 hour to convert your
flash site to a full out html site that WILL get indexed completely.

Maybe a little longer if you take the time to use an image rotator to partially simulate the flash effect.

* Don't worry, lots of people have both flash and html versions of their site, you have not wasted your money, but you need to finish the job with a complete html version if for nothing else the search engines.

* I'll only add that the html version can be edited by you, but any updates to your flash put you dependent on your Flash developer

( You have a very pretty site - but pretty aint everything )



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[Andrew Hardscape]

Thanks Tex, anyone else have any thoughts / suggestions?

[Andrew Hardscape]

Also, my site has drop down links that lead to the other pages.

I looked at someone else's web page stastics and I see Google is recognizing all their links that lead to their other pages.

At this point I believe I do feel that adding links to our home pages WILL allow the spiders to crawl our entire site.

Any thoughts on this?