Search engines are web services which help search through Internet addresses for user-defined terms or topics in which you are interested. So, the site owners can get success if their sites get good rank in search engines, because in this way they can get more traffic to their site. By taking all these points into consideration webmasters optimize their websites for search engines. Getting top search engine rankings requires that your site is designed well and is easily spiderable. All three major search engines- Google, Yahoo and MSN say that they prefer well-designed sites. Designing a search-engine-friendly website is not difficult; you just have to keep a few basic concepts in your mind.
Is Flash Site Search Engine Friendly?
Before giving any rank to any website, search engine spider crawls different pages of that website. From this you can understand that your site should be designed in such a way so that it will be easy for search engine spider to crawl different pages of your website. Many times graphic designers prefer to use flash because of its accuracy of design, the ease of animation, its cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility. As we know, Search engine spider can crawl the source code of one particular page and from that it collects different information about that particular page. It was a problem for websites that were built completely in flash. So if you will use flash in your first page then the indexing of your site will stop at the first page.
But time has been changed now. A software tool has been developed by Macromedia and that is making possible for search engines to index content inside flash sites. Search engines can now convert the Flash files to HTML and can even follow links embedded in flash. But you should use less number of flash or images in your web pages, because it doesn’t work so well. Search engines are simply too important for traffic and using flash creates unnecessary obstacles.
Therefore, we can recommend you that use flash and create an HTML version to complement your flash site. Try to use good title, good header and good description in your tags to get indexed by search engines.
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