Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : SEO / SEM Discussions : Flash websites and positioning

[system-domains]

On several accounts I've been told that positioning all-flash websites is a treterous task due to their bot-"illegible" content. Is this true?

[dvduval]

I agree, you need to have a plan to include some html within the flash site.

[BurakUeda]

Yep, all-flash websites are not good for SEO.
Most of the 100% flash sites I know are of already famous artists, brands or companies which no need to worry about the PR or the position of search result

[incrediblehelp]

Well it is not illegal. Spiders just have a tough time crawling it.

[system-domains]

Many thanks! I guess I'll go with alternatives than.

[Melnel]

There are some fixes you can use like the <noembed> tag which will give you legitimate spiderable content.

You can also do things like positioning your Flash movie over a div which contains content relevant to the Flash movie. There are those who claim that this may fall foul of the hidden content rules but IMO it is not a all spammy, and will work.