jasonindus
Programmer
hi,
my client's site is built entirely in flash, but they'd told me that the developer produced dynamic html pages that are served when spiders search the site. this sounds to me like cloaking and can get the client banned. either way they don't seem to be up there in search engine results and having run seo analysis their site is practically invisible.
i told the client that i'd speak to the developer and report my findings to consult on which way to go. here's what the developer said. before i go back to the client i would like to rely on the valid feeback offered by this forum...
your help is much appreciated!!
my client's site is built entirely in flash, but they'd told me that the developer produced dynamic html pages that are served when spiders search the site. this sounds to me like cloaking and can get the client banned. either way they don't seem to be up there in search engine results and having run seo analysis their site is practically invisible.
i told the client that i'd speak to the developer and report my findings to consult on which way to go. here's what the developer said. before i go back to the client i would like to rely on the valid feeback offered by this forum...
Your IP has been added to the list of spiders so that you can now view the HTML version of the site. As you can see this is plain html that represents the text content of the various sections of the site.
The following process is followed in order to adjudge wether to serve the HTML version or the full flash version of the site.
The IP address of the originating request is checked and if there is a strong match with known spider ip addresses and names ( taken from the lists published here: and updated monthly) then the system serves the pages as pure html text without any Flash: these pages have meta info (titles, descriptions and keywords) that is configured by the client within the CMS.
If there is not a match then the system serves either pure XML to the flash movie or in the case of the user arriving at the site or from a deep link then it serves the default index page which has a javascript function to open a window of the correct size to serve the flash movie into and which relays any deeplink onto the flash movie. Once the movie has initiated all requests are handled within the flash via xml communication with the system i.e the flash sits in a static HTML page and DOES NOT reload separate html pages and flash elements for each section.
your help is much appreciated!!