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How do search engines index Flash based sites?

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MadProfessor

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Does anyone know how search engines index flash sites, if at all? I have a flash driven site which uses text files as a convenient way to update the flash content. Will the text files be indexed or am I stuck with using meta-tags etc in the html that holds the flash?
 
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As a search robot will normally follow the links on a page, try making a blind link to your text files. This could look as follows:

<a href=&quot;mycontent.txt&quot;></a>

Note that there's nothing between <a> and </a> - but the robot will most probably recognize there's a link and follow it.

Did not test it though...
allow thyself to be the spark that lights the fire
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What BTW (By the way) is the meta tag for listings in sites and stuff?...for like keywords?...I need that for my flash site...=(
 
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Try the following...

Code: 
<HEAD>
<TITLE>My World</TITLE>
<META name=&quot;description&quot; content=&quot;Everything you wanted to know about stamps, from prices to history.&quot;>
<META name=&quot;keywords&quot; content=&quot;stamps, stamp collecting, stamp history, prices, stamps for sale&quot;>
</HEAD>

...or go to the URL below (found via Google in no time, seems pretty good to me as a starting point into the more complex depths of <meta> - I added it to my favourites right away :)

allow thyself to be the spark that lights the fire
haslo@haslo.ch - www.haslo.ch​
 
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