Thread: Help!

My website is a pure flash can anyone help me how to get more traffic? Coz someone told me that a pure flash site is a very difficult for google to read..

yes, Search Engines grasp the content of the sites from META as well as the words repeated in the site. It may be text content, alt tags, links etc. In a full flash site you can add Meta only, so the chances of search engine listing is very less.

An option would be to provide a non-flash version of your site within the "No flash plugin detected" section.

This way when Google hits your flash based page, Google at least gets some HTML content to scour and index.

That's incorrect, you can get traffic to a white page with no content. All the methods that are generally discussed such as links, press release, articles, ppc's etc. are powerful methods of promotion. The problem is that no one wants to do it the correct way which requires research, time, and spending money.

Originally Posted by knslms

That's incorrect, you can get traffic to a white page with no content. All the methods that are generally discussed such as links, press release, articles, ppc's etc. are powerful methods of promotion. The problem is that no one wants to do it the correct way which requires research, time, and spending money.

you will get traffic, but not from any search engines.

U can only be visible by many major search engines by running html text on the background of the flash. This is only solution to be recognized by search engines.

Thanks

actually a pure flash website can be hard for user to load, someone may have 56k and takes long time to load, so they just avoid your site.

I tried to post three links from Google as to how they index Flash. To post the URL's I need ten post. Good rule. I well understand. The BEST source for Google information is Google. Soo... If you want to know from Google about how Google deals with Flash (excellent news for Falsh developers) Google the following phrases. (minus the "quote" marks)

"Official Google Blog: Google learns to crawl Flash" - This is on googleblog / blogspot domain and is owned by Google and written by Google employees.

"Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Improved Flash indexing" - This is on googleblog / blogspot domain and is owned by Google and written by Google employees.

"Flash and other rich media files - Webmaster Help Center" - This is on the Google domain.

Randisist

A few tips for using flash (if you must use it):

* Create descriptive useful page titles and meta descriptions.
* Embed the flash into HTML pages and use regular text links on the page if possible.
* If it does not screw up the design too bad add HTML text to the page.
* Create textual representations of what is in the flash using no-embed tags.
* Instead of including everything in one flash file it may make sense to break the content into different flash files so you can create different HTML pages around the different ideas contained in it.
* Most sites are still best off using textual representations of the flash files on the HTML content of pages

U can only be visible by many major search engines by running html text on the background of the flash. This is only solution to be recognized by search engines.

you will get traffic

It's hard to make a site rank specially if it is done with flash. While authority sites doesn't really care or matter whether they were done in flash. One example is adobe.com.

Originally Posted by juliya

A few tips for using flash (if you must use it):

* Create descriptive useful page titles and meta descriptions.
* Embed the flash into HTML pages and use regular text links on the page if possible.
* If it does not screw up the design too bad add HTML text to the page.
* Create textual representations of what is in the flash using no-embed tags.
* Instead of including everything in one flash file it may make sense to break the content into different flash files so you can create different HTML pages around the different ideas contained in it.
* Most sites are still best off using textual representations of the flash files on the HTML content of pages

Okay, if we follow these techniques is there any chance to change the design and layout also?

I'll add a simple HTML Site Map. You can link it in the bottom of your flesh site but use an HTML link (meaning that in the bottom of the flesh page put the link with a simple HTML tag).
The site map should link to every page (or if the site is huge to every major page) in your website.

I suggest that you restructure your website..purely flash is really good to see but thats not the main concern there..its the "quality" of the site..and html tags are crawl by search engine that put your site on there list base on the user search...don't just depend on the flash object..

Try google "free Online banner Generator", try meta tag is the best

If traffic is all your concern do not worry it will get traffic even if it is a flash site but I don't know really if crawlers could index your content that easily.