Index page for users and one for spiders

nothing underhanded, just wondering

[TomJones]

I'm not looking to do anything illegal or even questionable but, I just spent a few hours learning all about the new Photoshop/ImageReady cs and I am itching to do a jazzy intro page. My index page now is full of keywords/phrases and spider friendly elements. My question is, is there a way I could put up a professional welcome page that offers flash and some simple rollover navigations to the different areas of my site that USERS see and, still have an index page that is optimized with lots of text?

I've seen several sites that have index1.htm, followed by index2.htm, are they doing what I am looking to do? Again, I don't want to violate any rules but, all of the companies I compete with have nifty into index pages (I outrank all of them so, don't want to lose that!).

Thanks for anyone's input ;)

[TomJones]

After a day of consideration, I've come to the obvious conclusion that there can be no legit way to do this (otherwise, everyone would be doing it). I'm so used to looking for a workarond.

[Marcia]

>>there can be no legit way to do this (otherwise, everyone would be doing it).

There are people doing it, delivering one page to human visitors and another to spiders, cloaking.

[webmasterworld.com...]

[TomJones]

Yes, I heard that term when I first started designing. It was already a four letter word back then, so I didn't bother learning how to do it. I assume it's not happening that much, anymore (isn't that forum even depricated here?).

I was thinking more along the lines of maybe a two part page, the flashy human part and the content rich spider part.

What if I designed the Flashy human part at the top of the index page, and just anchored the content rich below? If it was an autostretch table that I ensured filled the initial browser window, do you think it would appear funky if there was all that content underneath? The side toolbar would be the only real indicator of the substantial content below.

Is this a silly way to skin a cat?