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Mirror Sites for Flash
Date: 2006-01-31 Source: Search Engine Guide
My sister had a nice (Flash-based) site created for her. The web developer told her he is going to create a mirror site with HTML to deal with the issue of an all-Flash site.
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Can't We All Just Get Along? - The Battle Between SEOs and Web Designers
Date: 2006-01-16 Source: Search Engine Guide
I have been following an interesting thread over at Search Engine Watch Forums entitled "Do Designers Hate SEO?" where forum member "glengara" began with the question of whether all-Flash sites should be used in the commercial web space. It is certainly an interesting topic and one that has been hotly debated time and time again. The SEO argues for an "optimized" site that search engines can comprehend while the web designer argues for artistic liberty and creativity.
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Get Flash Sites Ranked in Search Engines
Date: 2004-10-11 Source: ClickZ
If a site absolutely, positively must contain Flash, there are ways to get it indexed by the search engines. Warning: Proceed with extreme caution.
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Optimizing Flash for Search Engines ^pop
Date: 2003-05-06 Source: SearchDay
Macromedia Flash and other non-HTML formats can pose problems for search engines, unless you take appropriate steps to optimize the content.
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Accessible Flash Part 1 - Optimise Your Flash Site For the Search Engines
Date: 2003-05-01 Source: SitePoint
A step towards accessible Flash content: providing real- time Flash content for search engines, and bookmarking Flash Websites.
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Translating Flash for search sites
Date: 2003-03-07 Source: News.com
Macromedia, the maker of the popular Flash tool for Web animations, is courting search engines in a bid to raise the visibility of Flash-created content, which is frequently passed over in Web indexes.
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Recommendations when using flash
Date: 2003-02-17 Source: PromotionData.com
Although Flash is nice, and generally attractive to users, it can harm your search engine optimization efforts.
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Optimizing Flash for Search Engines
Date: 2003-02-11 Source: SearchDay
Your glitzy Macromedia Flash animations may dazzle and impress, but over-reliance on Flash may render your website all but invisible to the major search engines.
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FAST Breaks the Flash Barrier ^pop
Date: 2002-09-18 Source:
Expanded visibility for Flash sites is good news for designers and users alike because it means that AllTheWeb, Lycos, InfoSpace, and other partner sites using FAST technology can readily display links to a cache of Flash content that wasn't available to users before.
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Heather's Heated Flash Debate
Date: 2002-01-10 Source: Search Engine Guide
If you can keep your ultimate goal in mind (pleasing the spiders while wowing your prospects), you can still create sites with Flash components, convert prospects, and get the rankings you want.
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What If Your Client Wants Flash AND Good Rankings? ^pop
Date: 2000-11-17 Source: Search Engine Guide
When you can explain the benefits of keyphrase-rich marketing text compared to a pretty site that doesn't do squat long-term in the engines, most clients will opt for text.
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Optimizing? Trash the Flash!
Date: 2000-09-08 Source: Search Engine Guide
Search engines rely on visible, html body text for their ranking determinations - and your home page is the most crucial page to optimize.
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