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Hey all
I am sure i have seen this topic before but i did a search and nothing came back sooo. I have heard alot of people saying that flash sites will not get ranked even if you put meta tags in, and others saying they will. Does anyone know if it is worthwhile putting the tags in and if so could they give me some advice on how to do it or point me at a tutorial? thanks alot
Ryan
I can't rem where i did the tutorial now but it was simple you just put this in the top of your html soarce code and save it.
I give you this example of how it should look like, it gets in google top ten and for all other search engines for the purpose i use the it for. The search term "Positive Cashflow Calculator" so a tip is to use the most likely used search term in the title.
I know that my site uses some of these terms for people to find it because it shows up in the stat's.
//just open your html that flash publishes and open the source file and copy and paste this below code into the top bit leaving the other code thats in there as well and change the mettatags to what your site is about and key words. The decription is what google and other engines will list your site as
<head>
<TITLE>Positive Cashflow Calculator</TITLE>
<meta name="description" content="Positive Cashflow or Negative Cashflow, Reno, Development, Investment Analysis Calculators 'FREE'. Australian made. Property Investment resources. A central user friendly place for all things property.">
<meta name="keywords" content="positive cashflow , cash flow calculator, cashflow calculator, property spotter , reno calculator">
Can use more key words then this olso but dont do to many more then say 25- 30 search terms.
Is this still relevant in 2010?
I was wondering how to get google search to find me, it seems unless i put my exact site name in to google search then it can't find my Flash site.
my site name is footagenest.com but if I try google; video footage, video clips etc my site doesn't appear, even 15 pages into google its still not listed
Firstly, meta data doesn't hold that much weight for Google's indexing. Google will only really take notice of your meta tags if the content happens to match them, so for that your gonna need a paragraph of two containing similar content.
The best way to do this is to create alternative content on your page that is hidden visually. Something like:
The styling on the div will not crush the box to 0px high and overflow hidden makes sure the content doesn't "spill out" the crushed box.Code:<div id="alternative_content" style="height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">
<h1>X, Y and Z</h1>
<p>This site is all about x, y and z.</p>
</div>
<embed put your flash file here />
Secondly, expecting to be found under "video footage" is very ambitious - consider how many other sites are out there who's content is related to video footage and you realise what an over-crowder place it is.
Some basics of getting good traffic are:
1. Have good content that Google can index (that means content in paragraphs and headings)
2. Build good quality links from external sites (and you can link back to theirs to strengthen those links as far as Google is concerned)
3. List yourself in directories
4. Use social networking to attract attention and trust: use a blog, twitter, facebook account. There all free places you can effectively advertise.