# Search Engines and Flash Sites

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/search-engines-and-flash-sites/27514>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 3, 2003, 12:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/search-engines-and-flash-sites/27514 "2003-08-03T12:57:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![jimhere](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/jimhere/32/137_2.png) [@jimhere](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jimhere)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 12:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/search-engines-and-flash-sites/27514/1 "2003-08-03T12:57:13Z")

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I just read the tutorial/essay on Search Engines:  
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/searchengines.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/searchengines.htm)  
but I’m still confused. Can spiders crawl through loaded .swf’s?  
A “Flash Site” usually resides on an html page, with the “pages” loading on top of itself.  
So how can different Sections of a site be meta-tracked? Should the index page have ALL the metas? What about the working links that spiders like to trace?  
(I’m getting ready to do a site for a real estate company, and they’re asking about google, etc)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/search-engines-and-flash-sites/27514/2 "2003-08-03T13:00:14Z")

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**it’s always a good idea to write ALL metas in index page**

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 1:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/search-engines-and-flash-sites/27514/3 "2003-08-03T13:04:40Z")

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uh maybe a stupid question, but what are metas ? 😛

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**Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 1:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/search-engines-and-flash-sites/27514/4 "2003-08-03T13:07:29Z")

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metas? what’s metas? maybe meta but a lot of them?

search engine site recognition (keywords assigned to a specific page)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/search-engines-and-flash-sites/27514/5 "2003-08-03T13:10:03Z")

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heh another stupid quesiton 🙂 How do you get em into the index page? do you just put lots of words between the \<meta\> \</meta\> ???

ok i think thats what you do 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 1:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/search-engines-and-flash-sites/27514/6 "2003-08-03T13:14:39Z")

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```php
<head>
<meta name="description" content="this is a cool page ya 'no">
<meta name="keywords" content="good site, good ****, god, site,****">
<meta name="author" content="fluid_0ne">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="30 days">
<meta http-equiv="title" content="cool page">
<meta name="copyright" content="none">
<meta name="distribution" content="Global">
<meta name="rating" content="Adult">
<meta name="robots" content="All">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2">
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="pl">
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="Sun, 31 Nov 2010 13:00:00 GMT">
<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="Cache">
<meta http-equiv="window-target" content="_top">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<meta http-equiv="classification" content="Adults">
</head>

```

this should give you an idea… 😛

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**Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 1:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/search-engines-and-flash-sites/27514/7 "2003-08-03T13:29:28Z")

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ooh, ok maybe this should be in the dreamweaver/frontpage section, but while we’re at it i might as well do it here 😛 Are the “descritiption” and “keywords” etc the same for all? or can it be made up??? (hope you understand what i mean :))

And how do you know when to use “meta name” OR “meta http-equiv” thanks!

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**Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/search-engines-and-flash-sites/27514/8 "2003-08-03T13:32:39Z")

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you can use “Meta Tag Expert” 😉  
you can do it in DV as well

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**Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/search-engines-and-flash-sites/27514/9 "2003-08-03T13:33:54Z")

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whats meta tag expert ?!! :-\  
and DV?? do you mean DW (dreamweaver?)

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**Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/search-engines-and-flash-sites/27514/10 "2003-08-03T14:32:55Z")

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When you publish your movie from flash, all the text in the movie is printed in your HTML like:

```php

<!-- Text used in movie --!>
My name is Freddythunder I have a dog his coat is shiny He's not a smart dog He eats food etc, etc, etc.

```

That’s how search engines find the text from a movie.

META tags are very important to web crawlers. Your keywords are key. (Hey…hahaha) These are the words that create relevance to a directory. I forget the actual numbers I’ve read before, but I think it should be limited to 200; not sure about that. You’ll find tons of stuff on Google. Another thing you may want to do is list your site with the search engines. (-:

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**Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 10:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/search-engines-and-flash-sites/27514/11 "2003-08-03T22:48:20Z")

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I just tried the publish from Flash, and it’s true! Text AND links were hidden in the html! Thanks for the tip, it makes justifying Flash-sites to clients that much easier.

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**Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 11:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/search-engines-and-flash-sites/27514/12 "2003-08-03T23:56:51Z")

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this should be made sticky somewhere