Flash Tricks For Improved Search Engine Rankings

OK, I’ll admit that this is not something that I expected to be reading about today. In some way, it almost feels like we are cheating to implement such tactics by using the following Flash tricks…

Normal wisdom says that if you use Flash in a web site it will hurt your search engine placement. This is due primarily to search engines having a hard time to index Flash content. But with a little ingenuity we can use that very problem to our advantage.

Let’s first take a look at how search engine indexing can cause you problems on your web site.

Most web sites are built up of menus and context areas. The menus are frequently text based, making them easy to update or change. The content is dependent on our writing creativity. Both of these can lead to search engine indexing trouble. [Read the rest]

[tags]flash tricks,search engine placement,writing creativity[/tags]

[tags]search engines,flash tricks,ingenuity,flash content[/tags]