Re: FLASH: Sniffers & Search Engines: Doesn't anyone deal withthis problem?

[John McKenzie]

Marie wrote:


> 

> Now I'm afraid that we won't be listed because the page is blank of html copy.

> My understanding is that search engines match meta tags to text on

> page for site ranking - How have any of you handled this problem?


Try this (imagine flash attributes to all these tags):



<object>

<param>

<param>

<embed></embed>

<object>Descriptive text</object>

</object>


That's legal and is intended as a kind of browser triage where a browser

digs in to the nested objects till it finds one it likes. I think non

flashed people might see the interior descriptive text, which may be an

advantage or a disadvantage depending on your situation. Robots would see

it, and flashed people definitely do not. If you try it, let us know how it

works!!! I will probably be trying it shortly; your e-mail got me thinking

about it for my own use.


Another legal way to do it:


<object classid="blablabla" standby="descriptive text">

<param>

<param>

<embed></embed>

</object>


The intention here is that this would work like a LOWSRC attribute, loading

first and disappearing when movie's loaded. It is not yet supported in

browsers (IE5 maybe?) but that shouldn't stop robots from seeing it.


These ideas come out of danny goodman's DHTML reference for O'Reilly.

Anyone please chime in if there's a reason this is stupid.


John McKenzie

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