Is complete flash site SEO friendly..?

15 years ago

A complete flash website is a terrible idea when it comes to SEO. The only content you can work with is meta data. Although link building and social media signals have a great importance, the drawbacks of having a flash website are huge.
After all "Content is King"!
Anyway, why would you go for a flash website when you have so many JavaScript libraries available?

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paulgl

15 years ago

I can't even imagine a site that is "all" flash.

Text in flash may be read, but what's the point?

Since some of your visitors will not have flash, it's not a good
starting point.

There has got to be some reason for wanting complete flash.
You could get by with just the title and domain, I suppose,
but don't expect to get much love from longer tail keywords.

Even facebook has some plain text in there.

Paul

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myseoclub

15 years ago

Totally a bad idea, not SEO-friendly at all.

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bigcat1967

15 years ago

I think G has made improvements in this area - but I wouldn't do it...

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joesmith1608

15 years ago

No, it could not be SEO friendly.You can't optimize that side according to search engines guide lines.

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epathj

15 years ago

I think its not a wise idea since google can not read what you wanna say in flash.so i advice u should do less flash in your site

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Marketing Ignite 15 years ago

Google has been working with adobe to be able to read flash...Although it can do partial reading, there are still ways to go...I would advice against it, not only from an SEO point but also from a management point of view. Do you have the time to update the text in flash files?
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jaywebdev

15 years ago

I'm also confused about this. Can someone check my link signature and tell me if my handled website is bad to SEO?

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Huug

15 years ago

Originally Posted by vedicsoft

HI friends...

One of my friends want to go for complete flash website.. he is worrying about SEO.....

is there any drawbacks if we go complete flash ..???

Please share your knowledge...

Don't do a website in flash. Ever. There are workarounds but none of them are really suitable for SEO purposes, you can do similar things with HTML5 and/or JQuery now though. Just make sure to use separate pages for the keywords targeted and heavy on page SEO.

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RevSEO

15 years ago

Tell him to forget it about it. I've seen one or two wortwhile Flash designs in my WHOLE internet life.

From an SEO perspective Flash is a complete waste of time, especially if its the WHOLE site that is flash.

In the day and age where not many phones support Flash technology you'd be absolutely crazy to design a purely flash driven website.

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yukon

Banned 15 years ago

Originally Posted by RevSEO

Tell him to forget it about it. I've seen one or two wortwhile Flash designs in my WHOLE internet life.

From an SEO perspective Flash is a complete waste of time, especially if its the WHOLE site that is flash.

In the day and age where not many phones support Flash technology you'd be absolutely crazy to design a purely flash driven website.

Agreed it's not a wise move for 100% flash.

Still a mobile site + the flash site is possible, it's just going to take a heck of a lot of work.

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yukon

Banned 15 years ago

A complete flash site isn't a good idea for the traffic, you better have a backup plan for non-flash traffic + seo.

You can seo flash If your really good at seo, it's more of an seo specialty that most folks don't ever talk about because they don't know how to do flash + seo & make it work.

The basics of flash + seo is you have to pull data/content from a remote source like an .xml file.

I have Google pulling images from my site via flash + xml & showing my raster images as video thumbnails (not image thumbnails) in Google text search (they don't have a clue what's going on, lol).

To answer your OP question, flash blows seo wise, out of the box.

Still it can be done & you'll have a steep learning curve, or pay a lot more $$ to seo the flash pages.

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gittar1122

15 years ago

Flash sites are not seo friendly because of the content and pictures are not in separate files. While content in flash sites is not readable by search engine crawlers.

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mustard76

15 years ago

Originally Posted by vedicsoft

HI friends...

One of my friends want to go for complete flash website.. he is worrying about SEO.....

is there any drawbacks if we go complete flash ..???

Please share your knowledge...

Bad idea. Flash is ignored by Google's crawlers.

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seoservicesaustralia

15 years ago

Hi

Flash Site not user Friendly flash sites is not readable by search engine crawlers.

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sammy123

15 years ago

Though Flash sites are not SEO friendly, but if you are having a website for videographer or photographer, you need to have flashes.. and I have seen many of the fully loaded flash websites which are ranking high. Idea is to optimize them.. Use ROR sitemap, provide effective user experience, you can make the home page with flash, but do provide some text in inner pages..

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Karen Barr 15 years ago

Originally Posted by sammy123

... if you are having a website for videographer or photographer, you need to have flashes

Rubbish. jQuery and HTML5 will handle any portfolio, be easily indexed by google, and furthermore will be visible to anyone browsing on iPad or iPhone, which Flash won't.

Also, what, is it 2003 again? I remember building an all-flash site back then. It took FOREVER to make updates because every single damn .swf file had to be edited. It was a nightmare.
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donkiston

15 years ago

Flash site is only a wasting of time because Google only read content and links of your website. Google not read pics or flash of your website. it is not a user and SEO friendly website.

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SUPER Louie

15 years ago

Flash is Trash! The problem with flash sites is that Google spiders have no idea what to look for since there is no text in it. The second problem with flash sites is that it will not work if the person browsing it doesn't have flash player installed.

Flash is a bad idea for SEO and for browsing in general. Maybe your friend should switch to Ajax if he/she wants flashy animations.

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xylement

15 years ago

It's a bad idea to use a flash based website if you are focusing on SEO. Some of them are allowing you to do a minor tweak and adjustment of SEO such as Title, Meta Description and Meta Keywords only. But it is not enough. Comparing with a normal non flash based site, it is much easier to see results in those non flash based sites.

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StoneWilson

15 years ago

Bad idea I have to say, even javascript is better, at least it needs less loading time.

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GSMGuru

15 years ago

Flash is not SEO friendly.

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umrbd

15 years ago

Flash sites are only suitable for big brands like mercedes, DELL, BMW, SONY etc which are not dependent of Internet doing business but for the small business making site completely on flash is like a suicide

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avenasowell

15 years ago

no complete flash is not seo friendly. if you want to get ranking in search engine you need content on the page. google read content only not images..

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vedicsoft

15 years ago

Experts,

thank you so much for sharing.....

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JamesGw

15 years ago

A full flash site is a terrible idea. Don't do it.

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terencemag

15 years ago

Not the best idea to have your site tons of flash if you want to be se-optimized.

Although Google has been working hard to read images and flash but text is still the best readable source for Google.

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vedicsoft

15 years ago

Thank you guys for sharing your knowledge....

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Is complete flash site SEO friendly..?

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