 Search Engines And Flash |
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 Apr 8 2006, 06:17 AM
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Super Member  Group: Members Posts: 202 Joined: 7-November 05 Member No.: 13,928  |
how are the search engines handling the flash sites? It's been any evolution? Can Google read through them ? -cause the .swf format is available for some years now-...
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Apr 8 2006, 12:55 PM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 702 Joined: 17-February 05 Member No.: 3,817 |
As early as late 2004 Google made news saying that it can search and read through what is written in flash. And there has been much hype over this, even Yahoo also is learned to have been able index flash sites and its content. But the fact is that it can never be the same as those of non-flash sites. Even if they are index they seem to be in the bottom of the search engine results.
This way of analysis has been made and an article on this has been posted HERE Therefore, after reading this article I have come to the conclusion that flash sites are not indexed properly like non-flash sites. |
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Apr 8 2006, 02:51 PM
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Privileged Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 584 Joined: 5-March 06 From: Warsaw, MO Member No.: 19,564 |
QUOTE(Dragonfly @ Apr 8 2006, 07:55 AM)  As early as late 2004 Google made news saying that it can search and read through what is written in flash. And there has been much hype over this, even Yahoo also is learned to have been able index flash sites and its content. But the fact is that it can never be the same as those of non-flash sites. Even if they are index they seem to be in the bottom of the search engine results. This way of analysis has been made and an article on this has been posted HERE Therefore, after reading this article I have come to the conclusion that flash sites are not indexed properly like non-flash sites. can you list a reference to what you just said? i would like to review that. |
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Apr 10 2006, 05:09 AM
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Premium Member  Group: Banned Posts: 160 Joined: 10-July 05 From: Bogotá, Colombia, South America. Member No.: 9,238 |
hello!, sorry i don'+ know wha+ is happening +o my keyboard so i will replace +he le++er "+e" wi+h +he plus signus "+", well i don'+ know so much abou+ i+, bu+ have lisened +ha+ you can define me+a da+a in swf movies, if i`m no+ wrong, i+ is in +he publish se++ings, bu+ sure you can ge+ flash si+es correc+ly indexed in+o search engines and i+'s so easy,+he only +hing you have +o do is edi+ +he me+a da+a in +he h+ml code con+aining your swf, and you are done.
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Apr 12 2006, 04:10 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 29-March 06 Member No.: 20,952 |
QUOTE(Dragonfly @ Apr 8 2006, 01:55 PM) As early as late 2004 Google made news saying that it can search and read through what is written in flash. And there has been much hype over this, even Yahoo also is learned to have been able index flash sites and its content. But the fact is that it can never be the same as those of non-flash sites. Even if they are index they seem to be in the bottom of the search engine results. This way of analysis has been made and an article on this has been posted HERE Therefore, after reading this article I have come to the conclusion that flash sites are not indexed properly like non-flash sites. Hey, If you want your flash site to be indexed you should use internal links when linking to your homepage as opposed to absolute links. The problem is that google spiders will ignore absolute links in a web page because normally absolute links take you to another web site so the spider cannot finish indexing a site propperly if it's being sent somewhere else. What you should do is on your intro page, if you have one, use internal links only to link to your homepage where you have your flash movie or whatever. This way at least your intro page will be indexed so visitors can find their way to your site. BY the way: absolute links are like: www.trap17.com and internal links are like mysite/images/index.html Let me know how you get on. |
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Apr 12 2006, 10:30 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 1,161 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Brisbane, QLD Member No.: 6,818 |
Actually, I think you're confusing your terminology. Absolute paths are /yourfolder/ whereas relative paths are ../../yourfolder/
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Apr 13 2006, 12:14 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 106 Joined: 1-April 06 Member No.: 21,148 |
QUOTE(Tyssen @ Apr 12 2006, 06:30 PM) Actually, I think you're confusing your terminology. Absolute paths are /yourfolder/ whereas relative paths are ../../yourfolder/ Many people (myself included) use "absolute" to refer to the complete path of a file (e.g. http://www.yoursite.com/index.html, c:\foobar.txt) and "relative" to refer to any path that is relative to the current file or directory. Hence both /yourfolder/ and ../../yourfolder/ fall under relative paths, because they're both relative to the current path. To be more specific, /yourfolder/ should really be denoted as ./yourfolder/ |
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Apr 13 2006, 12:22 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 1,161 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Brisbane, QLD Member No.: 6,818 |
QUOTE(WindAndWater @ Apr 13 2006, 10:14 AM) "relative" to refer to any path that is relative to the current file or directory. Hence both /yourfolder/ and ../../yourfolder/ fall under relative paths, because they're both relative to the current path. But /yourfolder/ isn't relative to the current folder, it's relative to the root folder. It seems there's some divergence of opinion on the terminology because a quick search on Google brings up tutorials that refer to both examples as 'absolute'. |
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Apr 13 2006, 08:37 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 202 Joined: 7-November 05 Member No.: 13,928 |
It's a pity flash sites can't be efficiently indexed because they really can get multimedia sites in front of people, not like simple xhtml sites, even enriched with php and other stuff. Anf i don't think flash sites can't be enough text-rich to offer the information a html site would offer. And i'm so sick of the differences browsers disply css and that u need another hacks for every new browser out there...and here it comes the new InternetExplorer!!! bleah
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