Google did not index ANY of the Flash content
For this Web site: http://KatzPlasticSurgery.com, no content has been indexed by Google. If you search, in quotes, for "everyone deserves to look and feel her very best", from the front page, it is not found. It is the same with other texts on the home page and other pages.
How likely is Google to look at text inside a fully Flash-based site. I am already using swfaddress and swfobject. Is there anything coded wrongly on the site that prevents (or discourages) Google from indexing the text content? Any suggestions of things to try (that you know and have seen work well) to get the content to be read by Google?
How likely is Google to look at text inside a fully Flash-based site. I am already using swfaddress and swfobject. Is there anything coded wrongly on the site that prevents (or discourages) Google from indexing the text content? Any suggestions of things to try (that you know and have seen work well) to get the content to be read by Google?
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Google will be most likely to find and share your site with others if...
1. You pay for Google Adwords - buy their advertising products.
2. Provide accurate and incisive <title> tags
3. Give careful attention to <h1> tags
4. Furnish descriptive <meta type="description" /> tags
HTH, ~Ray
1. You pay for Google Adwords - buy their advertising products.
2. Provide accurate and incisive <title> tags
3. Give careful attention to <h1> tags
4. Furnish descriptive <meta type="description" /> tags
HTH, ~Ray
Opalcomp,
1 - As pointed by lherrou, Google and others do NOT read Flash content, or very badly.
If you do not follow guidelines above, you are wasting time and money. Period.
1 - As pointed by lherrou, Google and others do NOT read Flash content, or very badly.
REMEMBER: spiders and robots do NOT run Flash nor Javascript, thus they do not "see" the result of such programs!
2 - Specifically, links in Flash are NOT read, which implies that the flash file cannot be spidered. So you MUST provide an HTML coded navigation bar or pagemap. (Of course this HTML can be generated by php or other).
NOTE: Same for javascript-only navigation bars, they cannot be spidered. (Actually they can in some obscure conditions, but why take the risk?). So there also you MUST provide an HTML coded nav bar.
3 - It is a good practice to provide some HTML coded text as an alternative to Flash content: this html content will be read and indexed by spiders and robots.If you do not follow guidelines above, you are wasting time and money. Period.
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If the plastic surgery site is pointed to by a malware site, could that cause Google to lessen its rank? I did check and found that the HTML text, under the Flash object, IS indexed by Google, while the text inside Flash is NOT indexed.