Comments on: Making Flash websites searchable http://madowney.com/blog/2006/12/12/making-flash-websites-searchable/ Mike Downey is the Principal Evangelist for Platform Business Development at Adobe Systems and focuses on Adobe's platform technologies including AIR, Flash, and Flex. This is his personal blog. The views expressed on this site are his and his alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of Adobe Systems, it's employees or partners in any way. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:09:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Tink http://madowney.com/blog/2006/12/12/making-flash-websites-searchable/#comment-1898 Tink Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:52:27 +0000 http://madowney.com/blog/?p=267#comment-1898 "For human visitors, it is impossible to bookmark a particular page because going back to that same link will take them to the beginning of the Flash experience" Bookmarking can be achieved by using deep linking within your SWF's so that aint quite true. “For human visitors, it is impossible to bookmark a particular page because going back to that same link will take them to the beginning of the Flash experience”

Bookmarking can be achieved by using deep linking within your SWF’s so that aint quite true.

]]> By: Ian http://madowney.com/blog/2006/12/12/making-flash-websites-searchable/#comment-1897 Ian Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:14:08 +0000 http://madowney.com/blog/?p=267#comment-1897 I have to say, I found the subtext of Jeff's article very negative. Surely as a representative of Adobe he should be extolling the benefits and countering the myths? The Flash platform is a technology like any other, and provided it is used competently there shouldn’t necessarily be an issue. The real issue is that of exposing content to users who are unable to “view” that which is rendered by the flash player. I work on an application which leverages the Flash platform in order to present a rich, intuitive experience for non-technical website authors. The application has evolved over many years and in recent releases we have focused on ensuring that sites built using our software expose their content as well as any HTML only solution. Many of the sites built using our software achieve high search engine rankings. http://www.moonfruitlounge.com/post/2006/11/17/SiteMaker-Flash-and-Search-Engine-Optimisation Thanks. Ian I have to say, I found the subtext of Jeff’s article very negative. Surely as a representative of Adobe he should be extolling the benefits and countering the myths? The Flash platform is a technology like any other, and provided it is used competently there shouldn’t necessarily be an issue. The real issue is that of exposing content to users who are unable to “view” that which is rendered by the flash player.

I work on an application which leverages the Flash platform in order to present a rich, intuitive experience for non-technical website authors. The application has evolved over many years and in recent releases we have focused on ensuring that sites built using our software expose their content as well as any HTML only solution. Many of the sites built using our software achieve high search engine rankings.

http://www.moonfruitlounge.com/post/2006/11/17/SiteMaker-Flash-and-Search-Engine-Optimisation

Thanks.

Ian

]]> By: Algis http://madowney.com/blog/2006/12/12/making-flash-websites-searchable/#comment-1896 Algis Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:36:19 +0000 http://madowney.com/blog/?p=267#comment-1896 Thanks Mike for the link to an article. I don't know how, but somehow I missed it in October. Thanks Mike for the link to an article. I don’t know how, but somehow I missed it in October.

]]> By: greg h http://madowney.com/blog/2006/12/12/making-flash-websites-searchable/#comment-1895 greg h Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:24:09 +0000 http://madowney.com/blog/?p=267#comment-1895 Subsequent to Jeff's article, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced support for the SiteMaps protocol. John Dowdell suggests SiteMaps are yet another tool for enhancing SWF visibility to SEO. See John's comments here: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/search_tech/index.cfm Learn more about SiteMaps here: http://www.sitemaps.org/faq.html And for yet more on SEO and SWF, also see this other Devnet article by Bobby van der Sluis of Refunk: Developing Flash websites using progressive enhancement www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/progressive_enhancement.html Happy Flashing! g Subsequent to Jeff’s article, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced support for the SiteMaps protocol.

John Dowdell suggests SiteMaps are yet another tool for enhancing SWF visibility to SEO. See John’s comments here:
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/search_tech/index.cfm

Learn more about SiteMaps here:
http://www.sitemaps.org/faq.html

And for yet more on SEO and SWF, also see this other Devnet article by Bobby van der Sluis of Refunk:

Developing Flash websites using progressive enhancement
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/progressive_enhancement.html

Happy Flashing!

g

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