Flash authors ponder Google pitfalls
This is a topic we’ve been revisiting here at the office. This is the debate we’ve had here at the office, which was the debate at this conference:
“Cox suggested two strategies for making Flash sites more receptive to Google indexing. One is to offer the site in both Flash and static versions, an already common practice.
His second suggestion was to embed Flash files within multiple static pages.
One participant noted that Flash had a feature for exporting text into a Web site’s metadata–invisible information describing the page to search engines–for easier indexing.
Another participant volunteered with an assessment of this approach.
“It doesn’t really work at all,” he said.”
My personal feeling is to just go with two seperate sites. But not everyone agrees with me… especially from a branding standpoint.
