Website in flash and in html

Will Google or other major Search Engines see as duplicate?

[Sweeets]

Hi

I wish to optimise a website which has a flash version and a html version, with no difference between the two in terms of content etc.

Will Google or the other major search engines see these two as duplicate sites? I have had experiences of penalisation for duplicate content previously, so am wary...

The flash site has a simple HMTL site link on each page, linking to the homepage in straight html.

It has all pages on both 'versions' in it's index.

Can anyone shed any light?

Thanks

[edited by: caveman at 6:05 am (utc) on Jan. 24, 2006]

[BarHopper]

Hey, here is your light.

Flash isnt recognized because its not searchable unless your stuff is in an XML document that the spiders can read. Thats why its always recommended that your first page of any HTML site never has Flash on it so that it can be properly indexed. As for dupe content...its not. You have to seperate sites developed in two different methods, live on the web crawlable in two different ways, the paths wont cross.

-Bar

[Sweeets]

Thanks, that was what I was hoping!

So, would you therefore anticipate that the HTML version of the optimised site ranks instead of the Flash version?

In fact you could say that it is not worth having the flash site, and instead just introducing flash files where necessary?

Just to clarfy!

Thanks again - I appreciate your insight...

[BarHopper]

No, just to make sure I would not even allow the bots to crawl my flash site just incase anything was to happen. Put in a robots.txt file and define that you dont want your flash site located in what ever folder to be viewed. But in any case you should be ok.