Here is a good article on how to SEO Flash on your pages.
It’s actually doing a bit of switcheroo with Javascript, and I for one, am not 100% comfortable with that. I wish there were variables that you can place in tags within the Flash code block that gets read by Google and other search engines. Perhaps if there was a way for divs to live within the Flash code block that doesn’t render visually onto the page.
In a nutshell this is what happens in the article above:
- Make a page with a DIV that has the relevant content in HTML.
- When page loads, use a JS sniffer to swap out the DIV with the Flash Codeblock.
- Google and other search engines, don’t take the JS switch into account, so they’ll always crawl the HTML version of the page.
But the article also explains some other good ways to make different Flash content more optimized for searches. Good read.
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