SEO: would this index my flash navigation links?

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Hi,

Reading up a bit on SEO and flash and I was wondering if this


<!-- URL's used in the movie
http://www.mydomain.com/link1
http://www.mydomain.com/link2
etc
-->
<!-- text used in the movie-->
....here my flash navigation

would be Search engine friendly?

Or should I just use simple site map linking to every page on my site?

What’s your way???

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For Flash you can use deeplinking to increase your SEO… you can do a google for deeplinking or you can check out: http://forum.24-7media.de/viewtopic.php?t=5289

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use a google site map made with XML, info on google somewhere, that is very effective, if you also go the deeplink route as mentioned then it would be a good as anything…

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I was talkin to a SEO guy that works with google, and/or beta’s their stuff sth like that. But they are creating a new googlebot that’s able to search through swfs, for possible metadata… now that’d be tight :smiley:

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that is the holy grail, there are open source projects poping up with this aswell, one that springs to mind is Ripple - http://osflash.org/ripple

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wow thx guys that’s valuable info.

I don’t make my website all flash just the navigation, but it’s good to know google is working on a “get-inside-your-flash” bot ;).

Like I said I just use a flash navigation and I want to make it easy for SE to indexed and where to find my files.

@simplistik, tx for the link (looks like a great website) but the topic doesn’t exists

grt\

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i would use a site map, but also high level navigation in html at the bottom of each page. then if you so desire, hide that high level nav with css (display: none)

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@bwh2, aha a little trick. I see what mean, jut the “high level” what do you mean with that? z-index???

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It’s does, you need to register. But you can just google for deeplinking in flash

hiding it will actually get you banned from bots I believe. It’s like when ppl put a whole bunch of keywords in their body then make it the same color as the background. I’m pretty sure (not positive) that it’s a no no

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well, it’s not currently figured into google’s algorithm. it’s an extremely difficult line to manage b/c on one hand, hiding text is often very useful in promoting accessibility. on the other hand, it can easily be abused for seo reasons. my guess is that when google and other engines start to factor it in, they will look at the “display: none” sections and weigh it against the rest of the page in both size and actual content as well as link relevance. that seems to me the only way to automate such a process.

btw keitai, i’m not talking about z-index at all. just look up “display: none” for div tags. and i would avoid calling it a “trick”, but that’s just semantics.

hmm… i also wonder if you could do a no index, no follow for css. not sure.