Re: FN-FORUM Flash and Search engines.

date posted 27th June 2000 10:55

Ceck your publish settings, in flash 4 when you publish a movie it includes
all text and links in comments, do search engines pick these up??
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Karthauser [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Flash and Search engines.


> Hi Paul,
>
> As far as I am aware - Search engine can not search flash files for text
as
> the flash text is rendered as the rest of the movie as individual frames -
> in the same way a GIF animation is.
> To get the search engines to find flash files you need to use Meta name
and
> description tags in the head of the page that the flash is embedded into.
>
> regards
> mikek
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> > From: "Paul Kilgour" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 12:31:05 +0200
> > To: Freelance Forum [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > Subject: FN-FORUM Flash and Search engines.
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > How do search engines (Yahoo, AltaVista etc.) work with Flash? I
understand
> > that search engines pick up on the various html text on your page and
list
> > you accordingly, but can they read text in a flash file? If not, what to
do?
> >
> > Also, do the various internal search engines (Atomz etc.) work within
Flash?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help.
> >
> > Paul.
>
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