Thursday 29 March 2012

Flash Optimization Tips


Most of the web developer or SEO persones are in wrong impression that Flash is not SEO friendly. In other words it is just a humor that flash is SEO unfriendly. Creating reachable flash content for search engines is critical for you to maintain your online presence and attract traffic to your site.

Below are the Flash Optimization Tips to get good rank in major search engine by using Flash.
SWF alt content
An iron-clad method to guarantee that a SWF’s content is cached and ranked by search engines is to pull out the content and place it into the HTML source pages. Dreamweaver tool use SWF Object to implant Flash. In Dreamweaver, the code view displays comments where you can add your alternative tag (Alt tag).

Ignore flash pop-ups
We often visit sites which force us to click on Flash pop up content into a new window. Remember this search engine never cached or indexed this type of content. In fact search spiders not even able to see them and many browsers blocked pop-ups.

Unique URL
If your site is just one big inflammation of Flash in an HTML template, your page is never going to refresh. Consider having a different URL for each page of your site’s Flash content. Each page would have its own HTML source title, “H1” and body copy containing the keyword you want to rank.

New initiatives
Adobe has been working with Google and Yahoo! to make the search engine friendly Flash file. This will enable the engines to see what’s inside a SWF’s content and allows to index flash page.

Content dumping
The one-page HTML rich internet application (RIA) will not be SEO friendly by adding the content for each section of the Flash application into the HTML source of page. Doing this doesn’t set up any importance of content, as there is too many challenging term.

Robors.txt
Robots.txt is a text file created specially for the google and it found at the root of a server. This tells search bots that which files robots can cache for search engine data base or not. If your Flash text and HTML version content are the same then you can set the Robots.txt file as disallow for the SWF content and set as allow only for the HTML content.

Text into Flash applications
Add some Flash-generated text in your site when displaying or animating flash or flash application. You can do this in place of using text that’s a compressed bitmap. Flash text can contain keyword, which help to increase traffic.

Flash content with SWF Object
SWF objective is a best way to make Flash content as a search engine-friendly. Alternative content (alt tag) is formed first, and then leftovers JavaScript are used to change the alternative content with the Flash movies. This makes sure that search engine will index your page or content.