Search engines and flash

[srsix]

We just completed a website using Dreamweaver and Flash. There's a Flash intro
to the site and some on the welcome page. My question is has anyone heard of in
having Flash open preventing search engines from finding a site? All of the
keywords associated with the site were placed in the index. When the url is put
in there's no problem the site comes up. I'm perplexed as to why it's not
coming up when using the keywords. The site has been submitted to Lycos, Alta
Vista, Inktomi, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves.

I've been told the content is invisble to search engines. Are there work
arounds or will the intro have to be converted to html?

Any suggestions?

thanks

[Billy]

> I've been told the content is invisble to search engines. Are there work
> arounds or will the intro have to be converted to html?
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> thanks

Even though your intro is in Flash it is still embedded in a HTML window
which can have all your keywords etc added to. Just remember that every time
you publish the site from Flash you will lose the keywords that you have
manually put in so just upload the swf file instead of the html each time.

It takes a while for search engines to recognise your site - it doesn't
happen overnight

Hope this helps

Billy

[Theresa Bennett]

Search engines cannot index Flash files and dynamically created content
on-the-fly. And most search engines do not even look at the keyword meta tag
anymore. One workaround is to create a static HTML page with text and link
to it from your sitemap so the search engines can index it.

HTH
--
Theresa Bennett
[url]http://webworksite.com[/url]
Webworksite SEO for Site Builders
Free SEO Site Evaluation

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> We just completed a website using Dreamweaver and Flash. There's a Flash

intro

> to the site and some on the welcome page. My question is has anyone heard

of in

> having Flash open preventing search engines from finding a site? All of

the

> keywords associated with the site were placed in the index. When the url

is put

> in there's no problem the site comes up. I'm perplexed as to why it's not
> coming up when using the keywords. The site has been submitted to Lycos,

Alta

> Vista, Inktomi, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves.
>
> I've been told the content is invisble to search engines. Are there work
> arounds or will the intro have to be converted to html?
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> thanks
>