I have a small question. Is there a way to increase traffic for flash web site. Is there an action script to make your flash website “visible” for others. I heard that if I build a flash web site it will be difficult to get customers due to the fact that flash pages usually don’t show up in the data bases. Is it right?
so anyhow is there a way to increase traffic or make my flash site "visible’ in search engines. do you think building a splash page in html and then redirect them to flash is a good idea?
That’s what I did with my site, I have a splash page that is html the contains meta tags so that search engines can see it. Then I have the splash page linked up to my main page that contains my flash layout.
there are whole sites dedicated to making your site more search engine friendly. but i would not place too much importance on that. far more important is having good content, and updating it regularly.
traffic can be summed up:
get some people to the site.
get them to stay on the site for a while.
get them to remember the site.
make them want to come back to the site often.
make them want to tell others about the site - which leads back to 1.
if you do all of the above, your traffic will go up and up without you doing much about it. i pay no attention at all to search engine optimization, and last month topped over one million hits for january alone. it’s just word of mouth.
how many times do you do a search, click on the top result, look at the site and say, “nope. no good” and hit the back button? so much for all the work that person did to be the top site. on the other hand, how many times did someone recommend a site to you, that you’d never heard of, and it was awesome?
a couple more things:
1.) flash outputs the text of your movie inside a tag that the spiders will pick up–this isn’t an optimal solution, but at least it gets some keywords out there for the search engines to pick up what you’re about…
2.) besides adding the meta tag info, another good idea is to add text/html that reflects your content inside the <noframes> tags. spiders also pick up this info, so this can help your cause as well…
-mojo