What's the best way to make a Flash website show up in Google, etc? I've added 'keywords' to the html head section using Adobe GoLive, but still no dice.
Any suggestions?
You can pay to have it show up more often, or list the keywords in meta tags and wait.. it will show up more often, but it may take a few months, years..
you could quickly make a html version of the flash site so google has more content to spider then when the hits come in just redirect your visitors to the flash version...
from what i've heard and understand [cound be wrong], google no longer seaches meta tags [your keywords]. they search content on pages [not helpful for flash] and they search title tags [that title that is displayed at the top of a browser window when you go to a site].
some search engines now go through flash content. I still do not think it is as good as proper linking to and from other sites. There are also ways to submit your site for free through yahoo, etc. There are ways to do this for free, you do not need to pay for it, but e is right, it could take a few weeks. Look around, there are many sites dedicated to submitting your site to search engines. Many good tips out there. Good luck.
add your url to www.google.com/addurl if you don't mind them advertising on your site. also, if you get enough traffic they'll pay you (albeit not make you a millionaire). this is from a popular science magazine article, i have'nt tried it myself!
(1) do you have a robots.txt file ? its purpose it to direct a spider to search and access at your direction. This might be a typical robots.txt file. It goes in the main site content. For each directory, if you want it passed over by bots, you have to list it specifically. You can create a spam free universe by burying your email contact within a non botted world. Once the spiders and bots are on to you, you will be buried in spam most probably after about 6 months.
2) do you have a similar meta tag in your page
<meta name="robots" content="all"> all is msn, google, yahoo, dogpile, altavista, ask geeves, on and on. you do not have to register with anyone. you need to make them find you. they recatalog the net almost everyday depending on the spider. you can tweek your site and watch the changes within days in many cases if people are not finding you. I play with mine to craft it. Its great when you see immediate results if you monitor your stats.
3) for highly graphic pages, that do not have text or if text is embedded in table within table structures, you can create food for spiders and bots that is extremely successful at hooking your desired audience. Spiders do not analyze text within nested tables.
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Suggestion - make a splash page that has a simple logo with a transparent background that loads like lightening (under 10kb). you can add same color text that matches the page attribute for background color (eg "#FF2020" - hex code) is a bright red good for a splash page. At the bottom of the page <p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans serif, verdana" size="-1" color="#FF2020">text you want, what would have been your meta tags in every possible configuration </font></p>to a page at the bottom before the </body> tag. That will give you somthing to feed on
sample of something to try that will require slight customization to work.
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<html>
This might solve all your problems - let us know in a couple of weeks how it works. Bottom line is that spiders will always analyze untabled text content. You might not want it to be obvious, but you can stick it right out there for the spiders to see.
I learned all this by trial and error. It has worked pretty well. People find the pages that they are looking for. Not a $$ spent with anyone for registration or creating the site. Bots that i did not know existed are out there. You will find yours when you monitor referrals, etc. This was a nice morning refresher on code.
Have fun.
e-)
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What's the best way to make a Flash website show up in Google, etc? I've added 'keywords' to the html head section using Adobe GoLive, but still no dice.
Any suggestions?
You can pay to have it show up more often, or list the keywords in meta tags and wait.. it will show up more often, but it may take a few months, years..
you could quickly make a html version of the flash site so google has more content to spider then when the hits come in just redirect your visitors to the flash version...
from what i've heard and understand [cound be wrong], google no longer seaches meta tags [your keywords]. they search content on pages [not helpful for flash] and they search title tags [that title that is displayed at the top of a browser window when you go to a site].
it will take probably a couple of weeks for the changes to be seen. or as pencrush says, you can pay.
some search engines now go through flash content. I still do not think it is as good as proper linking to and from other sites. There are also ways to submit your site for free through yahoo, etc. There are ways to do this for free, you do not need to pay for it, but e is right, it could take a few weeks. Look around, there are many sites dedicated to submitting your site to search engines. Many good tips out there. Good luck.
add your url to www.google.com/addurl if you don't mind them advertising on your site. also, if you get enough traffic they'll pay you (albeit not make you a millionaire). this is from a popular science magazine article, i have'nt tried it myself!
great, thanks everyone
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Do I just contact google/yahoo to pay for it? This is for a condo project and we need it up as soon as possible
here is a link for google ads >> http://www.google.com/ads/
Melvin,
(1) do you have a robots.txt file ? its purpose it to direct a spider to search and access at your direction. This might be a typical robots.txt file. It goes in the main site content. For each directory, if you want it passed over by bots, you have to list it specifically. You can create a spam free universe by burying your email contact within a non botted world. Once the spiders and bots are on to you, you will be buried in spam most probably after about 6 months.
user-agent: *
disallow: /_private/
disallow: /mailtemp.txt
disallow: /_vti_pvt/
disallow: /cgi-local/
disallow: /etc/
disallow: /guestbook/
disallow: /graphics_dir/
disallow: /mpc/
disallow: /stats/
disallow: /images/
2) do you have a similar meta tag in your page
<meta name="robots" content="all"> all is msn, google, yahoo, dogpile, altavista, ask geeves, on and on. you do not have to register with anyone. you need to make them find you. they recatalog the net almost everyday depending on the spider. you can tweek your site and watch the changes within days in many cases if people are not finding you. I play with mine to craft it. Its great when you see immediate results if you monitor your stats.
3) for highly graphic pages, that do not have text or if text is embedded in table within table structures, you can create food for spiders and bots that is extremely successful at hooking your desired audience. Spiders do not analyze text within nested tables.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Suggestion - make a splash page that has a simple logo with a transparent background that loads like lightening (under 10kb). you can add same color text that matches the page attribute for background color (eg "#FF2020" - hex code) is a bright red good for a splash page. At the bottom of the page <p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans serif, verdana" size="-1" color="#FF2020">text you want, what would have been your meta tags in every possible configuration </font></p>to a page at the bottom before the </body> tag. That will give you somthing to feed on
sample of something to try that will require slight customization to work.
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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="NotePad">
<meta name="description" content="Melvin's website">
<meta name="author" content="Melvin">
<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright 2005, Melvin, All Rights Reserved">
<meta name="robots" content="all">
<meta name="keywords" content="melvin">
<title>Melvin Flash Splash</title>
<basefont size="1" face="arial, verdana, sans serif, helvetica"></head>
<body bgcolor="#FF2020" text="#FFFFC0" link="#FFFFC0" vlink="#FFFFC0" alink="#FFFFC0">
<p align="center"> </p>
<div align="center"><center>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="745" height="383"
bgcolor="#FF2020">
<tr>
<td width="700" height="200" valign="middle" align="center"><p align="center">[url=INSERT YOUR FLASH SITE LINK HERE]<img src=" STICK YOUR LOGO HERE.gif" class="splash"
alt="Melvin Flash Splash®, All Site Contents Copyright © 2005, Melvin, All Rights Reserved (11kbs)"
WIDTH="650" HEIGHT="78" border="0">[/url]<br>
</p>
</td>
</tr>
<p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans serif, verdana" size="-1" color="#FF2020">Here is where you add what you want to use for the spiders and bots to find you. it could be done in the style of meta key words, or content. I suggest eschewing any punctuation and do double spacing between word groups that work well to snag your prespective viewers.</font></p>
</center></div>
</body>
</html>
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This might solve all your problems - let us know in a couple of weeks how it works. Bottom line is that spiders will always analyze untabled text content. You might not want it to be obvious, but you can stick it right out there for the spiders to see.
I learned all this by trial and error. It has worked pretty well. People find the pages that they are looking for. Not a $$ spent with anyone for registration or creating the site. Bots that i did not know existed are out there. You will find yours when you monitor referrals, etc. This was a nice morning refresher on code.
Have fun.
e-)
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