Flash and Search engines (was RE: [Sigia-l] Using Flash Rollovers to Uncover Information)

[Eryk Orłowski]

: -----Original Message-----
: On Behalf Of Russ Unger
: 
: ...that probably requires some clarification.  The example I 
: was making note of was that a spider wouldn't jump through 
: content because the HTML link wouldn't be evident on the page 
: if it's buried inside of the .swf file.  That said, would a 
: spider be able to search through the .swf file, find a link 
: and then travel that link within the domain--assuming, again, 
: that it's inside of the .swf file, or would it treat that as 
: simply text that it's finding in the .swf file?
: 
: It's great that the reigns are loosening a bit, but I don't 
: think it's entirely there just yet.  I'd love a lot more 
: information on this.

alternative (little bit hardcore probably):
1. create a separate template for the crawlers, using web-published lists of
ip's. if do not have one, check for list of referers on Your httpd.
2. if any dynamic content published within swf, that could not be read by
search engines, add some key-word-generator to Your cms system, so that the
dynamic content of selected parameters can be indexed.

regards

eryk 'eof' orlowski || project manager || argonauts360