flash and Meta tags

[macko]

I would like to know the proper way to create meta tags for a flash site that
will be picked up by the spiders of the search engines what i am trying out
right now is not working effectively!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[DiaMondBusteR2004]

I just finished my first 100% flash website and was wondering the same.

I read this information on an earlier post and I am tring it on my site.

Inside your body tags use the <NOSCRIPT></NOSCRIPT> with all your keywords
that you put in your <META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT=" ">

I am tring this and hope it does the job since making your clients website
highly searchable is a very big selling point!


My website I am referring is
[L=www.SeasideReptiles.com]http://home.comcast.net/~diamondbuster2004/seaside/in
dex.htm[/L]

Hope this helps

If anyone else has any other information Please Do Share!

This is very important to me!

[Kathy]

Excerpt from FlashNewz newsletter dated 4/2/04

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Flash based web sites and the search engines
By: Stefan Mischook of Killersites.com


As with many of my articles and newsletters, this one is inspired by a
question put to me:

" Is it true that you should not have a flash web site since search
engines do not recognize flash? "

The short answer to the question is yes and no. :)

Search engines traditionally cannot see flash - but since Flash 4,
Macromedia (the guys who make Flash) built into Flash the capability to
be 'seen' by the engines. Today search engines like AlltheWeb.com, Lycos
and Google among others can index (see into) Flash movies, but only in a
limited way. As far as I can tell, the engines can only extract links
from the Flash movies and not much else. Compare this to an HTML page
where the search engine robots (the automated programs that search
engines use to surf and catalogue the web) can read everything about the
page and thus your web site will have a much better chance of appearing
in the search engines.

How to use Flash and make the search engines happy
It is best to combine both HTML and Flash on the same web page to cover
your bases. Flash is best at creating interactive presentations,
handling video and displaying animations. HTML still renders text better
than Flash, as such it is my opinion that if your web sites' job is to
present information that will just be read by your visitors (ex: our
company does x-y-z), I would then stick to HTML. In the end content is
king; an animation is not going to keep them coming back, good content will!

If your not convinced, check out [url]www.macromedia.com[/url] , even they combine
HTML and Flash on their own pages.

About the Author:
This week's article was written by Stefan Mischook of Killersites.com.
KillerSites.com, the official website to David Siegels book 'Creating
Killer Web Sites'*. In addition to the classic web site, killersites.com
now has a web site designers forum, newsletter and many new articles!
Killersites.com is now more than ever, a web designers resource on
creating web sites and database driven web applications.

macko wrote:

> I would like to know the proper way to create meta tags for a flash site that
> will be picked up by the spiders of the search engines what i am trying out
> right now is not working effectively!
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>

[cVarz]

I am wondering if browsers also pick up <!--commented information--> as well as
content, text ect... If so, maybe you could list key elements in comments on
your index page for the crawlers to pick up?

Another idea, was to link each page to a blank html page with the keywords
etc.... in those blank pages for search engines to pick up?

For example a 2px virtual include header that contains all of the tags for
your web site?
Just an idea. I am kinda pull'n stuff out of my a.... here so take this info
with a grain of salt.