SEO for Flash Sites

Optimizing your website which is mainly all flash can be very difficult, for one main reason - Search Engines can’t read flash files. That means that Search Engines can’t pickup new pages from your site, and you get very little pages indexed. Worst of all, you probably shouldn’t wait on Google to add flash support because they probably won’t, it would be too unsecure.

There are however some options that you could do to at least help you out a little, and not make the situation as bad.

HTML
You could simply start your website over and create it in usual HTML. That way, it would take a lot of time to get back to normal, but your website wouldn’t have the big disadvantage.

Cloaking
If you don’t already know, Cloaking is where you show the Search Engines a different thing to Users. For example, you could show the normal flash website to ordinary users, while you could have a better SEO-optimized flash website for the Search Engines. This is viable by the use of PHP or ASP.

Keeping Flash Without Cloaking
If you were really intent on sticking with a flash site, there are a few things you could do to at least help your site slightly. META Tags. Use a detailed (but not too long) title tag, keyword-rich description tag, and use relevant keywords (but not too many) in your keyword tag. This will allow you to keep your flash file but keeping some SEO there. The other options are better though.

HTML Sites As Well As Flash
This could be useful. Basically, you create a HTML version of the flash site (so you have both the flash and the HTML versions online) and then you send all of your inbound links to your HTML version, therefore Google will see the HTML versions. You could alternatively use this method combined with the Cloaking method.

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