quicknrandom
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should i sacrifice seo for a nice smooth design? also how would you go about and seo a flash based website. the sitein particular is www.quicknrandom.com
seo with flash?
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Numa68
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I haven't hit the site yet, but contrary to popular belief Flash sites can be SEO friendly as long as you keep to a few basic rules, such as importing the bulk of your content as XML and not images (although Google can OCR images... sort of).
I would definitely recommend putting a straight up HTML version of the site (or at least the important bits) inside of <noscript> tags. Then on those pages you can embed a little javascript that tests for Flash capabilties and redirect as needed when a real browser clicks through.
Navigation inside the Flash object might be tricky, but you can capture some of the anchor link love from the search engines with <noscript>.
Hope this helps, and good luck!
I would definitely recommend putting a straight up HTML version of the site (or at least the important bits) inside of <noscript> tags. Then on those pages you can embed a little javascript that tests for Flash capabilties and redirect as needed when a real browser clicks through.
Navigation inside the Flash object might be tricky, but you can capture some of the anchor link love from the search engines with <noscript>.
Hope this helps, and good luck!
oldenstylehats
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While Numa68 is absolutely right that you could put a regular site inside of <noscript> tags, very rarely will a Flash site rank better than a non-Flash site, even if the Flash site has an entire site inside of <noscript> tags. For what it is worth, that site could be done with JavaScript, CSS and XHTML.