Re: [flasher] Linking flash sites to search engines

[Gregg Caines]

Most search engines don't follow the 'meta refresh'-style redirect,

and I'd hazard to guess that a javascript-style redirect would be

similarly ignored.  Google is the only one I've seen that actually 

makes it past the client-side redirect.  Also, many ignore frames 

and only look at your content in the <noframes> tags...


Sooo...the slickest way would be to create a server-side script that

detects them (You can identify them by the HTTP-USER-AGENT

info in the HTTP header;  Google shows up as 'googlebot', for 

instance) and serves up a plain old HTML page.  


This would solve the problem altogether, but I doubt the work 

would be worth it.  A very tiny portion of our hits are from search 

engines, so we don't even put the effort into them.  There are a 

million other ways to market yourself and many of them take less 

effort/money/time and give better results.  You could try the 

netmarketing list that chinwag also hosts... I sometimes find the

marketing-types there have ideas I'd never considered...


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Gregg Caines

n e o m e t r i x  systems inc.

http://www.neometrixsystems.com

gcainesneometrixsystems [dot] com

> Hi all...

> 

> Wonder if any of you had sussed out how to get good search results for a 

> flash site.

> I can't seem to get any recognition at all.

> 

> Initially I thought I might be because I had a redirect on my index page.

> But I've removed this and resubmitted the site but with no noticeable 

> improvement.

> 

> Any advice would be greatly appreciated...

> 

> Thanks,

> 

> Mark...