# Sorry - but help needed for Flash & Search engines

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sorry-but-help-needed-for-flash-search-engines/115532
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**Created:** [July 9, 2004, 11:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sorry-but-help-needed-for-flash-search-engines/115532 "2004-07-09T11:50:46Z")
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### Author: ![Pup\_100](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/da6949/32.png) [@Pup\_100](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Pup_100)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2004, 11:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sorry-but-help-needed-for-flash-search-engines/115532/1 "2004-07-09T11:50:46Z")

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[font=Times New Roman]Can someone please tell me in simple terms what is the deal with Flash & search engines.[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]I have just submitted my first commissioned site to a clients ISP & the client has been on the phone to me waving her hands in the air saying that a guy at the ISP has told her that because the site was constructed in Flash it will not be picked up by any search engines.[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]I have heard mumblings of this in the past & tried to read up extensively on the subject but I’m currently none the wiser.[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]Macromedia’s technical notes say to use “Meta tags” in the HTML file that embeds the SWF, which I have done, but everybody else, (including searched postings on this site) takes a much more doom laden & complicated view encompassing server side scripted pages & summoning up the Dark Lord of Web Bots with horrendously complicated solutions.[/font]

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[font=Times New Roman]Simple question will my HTML embedded Meta tags work with the MX site I have constructed & if not what do I do?[/font]

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