SEO Tycoon

**Roger Fred** · 02-02-2011, 02:16 PM

What do you think, Flash sites are suitable for SEO?
How do you audit and then plan your SEO strategy for site like this?

I found this while surfing, sounds me interesting having 6000+ Facebook Fans but site is not much good as you should be.

. What's your opinion?

**chrishirst** · 02-02-2011, 02:26 PM

What have facebook "fans" have to do with SEO???

**Roger Fred** · 02-02-2011, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

What have facebook "fans" have to do with SEO???

Why you need to make a Facebook Fan/Business Page for your website because
it works as second home page for online business. BTW the site has zero ranked. I don't know they have good traffic or not?

**kline11** · 02-02-2011, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Roger Fred

Why you need to make a Facebook Fan/Business Page for your website because
it works as second home page for online business. BTW the site has zero ranked. I don't know they have good traffic or not?

You certainly don't NEED a facebook page. As far as SEO is concerned, you can optimize any website, flash or not.

**chrishirst** · 02-02-2011, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Roger Fred

Why you need to make a Facebook Fan/Business Page for your website because
it works as second home page for online business.

So nothing at all to do with Optimising then.

Possibly marketing, if your target audience are going to be users of Facebook.
But it certainly is not a NEED

**Kellyspa** · 02-02-2011, 09:18 PM

I think the op was talking about SEM rather than SEO.

**MrPolarZero** · 02-02-2011, 11:32 PM

for me, flash is no good for a site. Because it makes a web page too slow to load which will result to lack of visitors. If your users find your website has a slow loading time, they will likely to navigate away from the page and look for other services.

**seo.vijay** · 02-03-2011, 12:37 AM

Flash sites still can be optimized. There are several approaches to this:

Input metadata
This is a very important approach, although it is often underestimated and misunderstood. Although metadata is not as important to search engines as it used to be, Flash development tools allow easily to add metadata to your movies, so there is no excuse to leave the metadata fields empty.
Provide alternative pages
For a good site it is a must to provide html only pages that do not force the user to watch the Flash movie. Preparing these pages requires more work but the reward is worth because not only users, but search engines as well will see the html only pages.
Flash Search Engine SDK
This is the life-belt. The most advanced tool to extract text from a Flash movie. One of the handiest applications in the Flash Search Engine SDK is the tool named swf2html. As it name implies, this tool extracts text and links from a Macromedia Flash file and writes the output unto a standard HTML document, thus saving you the tedious job to do it manually.
However, you still need to have a look at the extracted contents and correct it, if necessary. For example, the order in which the text and links is arranged might need a little restructuring in order to put the keyword-rich content in the title and headings or in the beginning of the page.
Also, you need to check if there is no duplicate content among the extracted sentences and paragraphs. The font color of the extracted text is also another issue. If the font color of the extracted text is the same as the background color, you will run into hidden text territory.
SE-Flash.com
Here is a tool that visually shows what from your Flash files is visible to search engines and what is not. This tool is very useful, even if you already have the Flash Search Engine SDK installed because it provides one more check of the accuracy of the extracted text. Besides, it is not certain that Google and the other search engines use Flash Search Engine SDK to get contents from a Flash file, so this tool might give completely different results from those that the SDK will produce.

**forumaddicted** · 02-03-2011, 02:43 AM

6000+ Facebook Fans are a good customer base if you have then there is no need to spend money a lot for the SEO, just focus on that page with little effort to get some organic searches. BTW flash is not recommended to get visitors from organic search, and solution to do its SEO is to add the same links and content of the website in your html and import that flash video from external file.

**Html Web Design** · 02-04-2011, 02:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Roger Fred

What do you think, Flash sites are suitable for SEO?
How do you audit and then plan your SEO strategy for site like this?

I found this while surfing, sounds me interesting having 6000+ Facebook Fans but site is not much good as you should be.

. What's your opinion?

facebook fan and site popularity both are different things .... the no. you are showing i.e. 6000+ is for facebook fan page it is nothing to do with website

and flash site is not much seo friendly

**maria_cooper** · 02-05-2011, 06:17 AM

Flash is always harmful from search engine point of view because crawler do not read content of flash file. Better you use Jquery or Javascript for animation. Talking about facebook fans, it doesn't have any relation with search engine.

**ThailandForum** · 02-05-2011, 08:02 AM

Do google, yahoo, youtube or any of the other big sites have a facebook account? Got to admit I have no idea, really can't imagine wiki setting up a face book account, maybe I am wrong, but if they haven't bothered should you really bother?

**emaginationz** · 02-05-2011, 08:36 AM

We can do SEO for flash sites as well but i think achieving top rankings in search engines for these websites will be a tough task.

**skyinfo** · 02-05-2011, 10:29 AM

Generally we don't prefer flash site for SEO because it need long time to be optimized..

**PBScott** · 02-05-2011, 11:42 AM

I don't think a flash site is as detrimental as it used to be, I know with my own website, for 80% of all the pages, only the meta tags are being read these days anyhow, since caffeine was launched I have nearly 0% of my visitors from long tail keywords.

You can optimise flash for speed, try spreading the files over multiple URLs, however as SEO goes flash is not ideal to say the least.

**nasul** · 02-06-2011, 04:01 AM

If you have text content behind the flash than yes.

**maryparker** · 02-07-2011, 01:02 AM

Flash-based websites aren't good for SEO because they can’t be indexed by search engines. One way to take circumvent this issue is to utilize NOSCRIPT content. NOSCRIPT tags are basically used as text replacement for Flash or other Javascript elements in your browser. If you are looking at the site normally, you won’t be able to see them (Hint: view page source). Only a visitor who has Javascript turned off in his browser will see the <noscript> text.

**shayaristore** · 02-09-2011, 02:12 AM

It face some difficulties but can archive ranking

**ms123** · 02-09-2011, 05:43 AM

If you are looking out for seo friendly website, then I would recommend avoidance for usage of seo site as it will not help in ranking of website.

**Atcomaart** · 02-09-2011, 07:32 AM

I think flash is not good for our websites so if you work in SEO so avoid flash