Flash vs Google

How can you index a home page with Flash on Google?

[slengyel]

My homepage contains Flash. Can anyone suggest ways to modify my homepage without getting rid of the Flash, so that it can be more easily read by Google?

[WebGuerrilla]

Hi slengyel,

Welcome to WebmasterWorld

How about making sure any important text in the flash also exists as regular text on the page.

[doc_z]

Hi slengyel and welcome!

Recently there was a discussion On Google and Flash [webmasterworld.com].

[bilalak]

If you can not post the text on Flash as simple text on the page you can:

Select a meaningful title for the page

Write a domenting description meta tag

Add the text on Flash as html comment on the page (this would not help in higher ranking but it is better)

Add simple html href on the page because links from inside falsh are harder to crawl and from my experience SE would not follow them

Add tooltips to the href on the page

Luck!

[richardb]

If nothing else put a (html) link to a site map or (html) to navigation menu.

Rich

P.S. One of the main reason people dislike Flash is that people do not plan correctly when designing the animation, it is possible to have Flash load and start to play immediately (even on narrow band) - so make sure that your .swf is well structured.