Will this work? its about making pages findable! 1

[avinsinanan]

Ok this is an idea on how to make web Flash pages findable.
I did some reaseach and this is an idea I came up with and it did not work. Tell me why please.. here is the idea :

I made a web page in Flash and uploaded the index.html and
index.swf files like I am suppose to. Then I altered the index.html page a bit. I put comments in the HTML source code. In the comments I puy key words like " Computers" ,
"Hard drives" etc(ie words dealing with my web site). However when I used a serach engine it never found the web page. And I even used key words not found in any other pages.. words I made up.

Why didn't this work?

Yours Respectfully
Avin Sinanan

 

[wangbar]

Search engines don't index your page as soon as you put it up on the server. Most engines have "spiders" which crawl around the web indexing pages as they come across them but they all use slightly different methods of finding sites.

In some cases it will take weeks for them to find you even if you register with them.

Also the major engines prioritise things differently, some give weight to the things like META tag keywords, some to body copy, others to the number of links into your site - it's a very inexact science.

 

[avinsinanan]

To Wangbar,

Thanks for the advice. But therotically the method I used will allow my web page to be found eventually right?

Yours Respectfully
Avin Sinannan

 

[wangbar]

Some search engines do look at comments etc but it won't get you as many hits as metatag keywords - as an extra tactic it certainly won't do any harm but I wouldn't expect it to make much of a difference with the major players.

For Flash sites, which are generally harder to get indexed than straight HTML, think seriously about your metatags (keyword and description especially) which are taken into account by most engines and also a "robots.txt" file in your root directory really helps in my experience containing the following:

#robots.txt for

http://www.wangbar.co.uk

User-agent: *
Disallow:

Trying to get other sites to link into you helps too as some spiders follow hyperlinks from page to page.