•
•
•
•
What is DaniWeb IT Discussion Community?
You're currently browsing the Site Layout and Usability section within the Web Development category of DaniWeb, a massive community of 392,263 software developers, web developers, Internet marketers, and tech gurus who are all enthusiastic about making contacts, networking, and learning from each other. In fact, there are 2,567 IT professionals currently interacting right now! Registration is free, only takes a minute and lets you enjoy all of the interactive features of the site.
Please support our Site Layout and Usability advertiser:
Views: 2759 | Replies: 7
 |
•
•
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: England
Posts: 66
Reputation: 
Rep Power: 4
Solved Threads: 0
Junior Poster in Training
Hey People,
I gotta question regarding search engines. I designed a basketball site about 5 months ago which im currently optimising to try and get higher rankings in search engines.
I understand that some search engines require you to use META Tags and some like Google require you to have good links to your site from other sites.
My basketball site starts off with a flash intro and then waits until you 'click to enter'. ( www.warwickshirebasketball.co.uk )
I know that websites created purely in Flash dont get high rankings because there is no information when you view the HTML code.
When a web crawler/spider goes onto my site is it going to get any further than my flash intro??? Im worried i have shot myself in the foot so to speak!!
Thanks alot
GR Web FX
I gotta question regarding search engines. I designed a basketball site about 5 months ago which im currently optimising to try and get higher rankings in search engines.
I understand that some search engines require you to use META Tags and some like Google require you to have good links to your site from other sites.
My basketball site starts off with a flash intro and then waits until you 'click to enter'. ( www.warwickshirebasketball.co.uk )
I know that websites created purely in Flash dont get high rankings because there is no information when you view the HTML code.
When a web crawler/spider goes onto my site is it going to get any further than my flash intro??? Im worried i have shot myself in the foot so to speak!!
Thanks alot
GR Web FX
•
•
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Posts: 62
Reputation:
Rep Power: 4
Solved Threads: 0
Junior Poster in Training
•
•
•
•
Originally Posted by GR Web FX
Hey People,
I gotta question regarding search engines. I designed a basketball site about 5 months ago which im currently optimising to try and get higher rankings in search engines.
I understand that some search engines require you to use META Tags and some like Google require you to have good links to your site from other sites.
My basketball site starts off with a flash intro and then waits until you 'click to enter'. ( www.warwickshirebasketball.co.uk )
I know that websites created purely in Flash dont get high rankings because there is no information when you view the HTML code.
When a web crawler/spider goes onto my site is it going to get any further than my flash intro??? Im worried i have shot myself in the foot so to speak!!
Thanks alot
GR Web FX
From my experience - you'll probably have a bit of a harder time but I don't think it's impossible. Is there any way to have a small paragraph of text on the home page as well? Something tasteful that doesn't detract from your intro? What about SEOing your inside pages as well? When you do your link campaign, you can focus on getting visitors to your inside pages instead of the first home page.
Another question you might want to ask is - is that Flash page necessary? Can you incorporate a smaller but similar Flash peice as, say, the header of your home page, where you then have room to put your copy and other content as well? What purpose does the intro serve and is it essential to your site? I'm saying yea or nay... just something to ask yourself.
Good luck!
Web Design in Wisconsin : Milwaukee Web Design : Second Platform
•
•
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: England
Posts: 66
Reputation:
Rep Power: 4
Solved Threads: 0
Junior Poster in Training
Excellent thankyou, i will have a think about that.
When you look at the intro, if you look under the white frame i have written some text in HTML just saying 'warwickshire basketball association'. If i turn this into a HTML link to the homepage of my basketball site, when a web crawler/spider goes through my site, should it sort out my problem?
Unfortunatley the intro has to stay as it was part of the design criteria.
Thansk alot
GR Web FX
When you look at the intro, if you look under the white frame i have written some text in HTML just saying 'warwickshire basketball association'. If i turn this into a HTML link to the homepage of my basketball site, when a web crawler/spider goes through my site, should it sort out my problem?
Unfortunatley the intro has to stay as it was part of the design criteria.
Thansk alot
GR Web FX
•
•
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Posts: 62
Reputation:
Rep Power: 4
Solved Threads: 0
Junior Poster in Training
•
•
•
•
Originally Posted by GR Web FX
Excellent thankyou, i will have a think about that.
When you look at the intro, if you look under the white frame i have written some text in HTML just saying 'warwickshire basketball association'. If i turn this into a HTML link to the homepage of my basketball site, when a web crawler/spider goes through my site, should it sort out my problem?
Unfortunatley the intro has to stay as it was part of the design criteria.
Thansk alot
GR Web FX
I would definitely make that a text link. Are those your keywords as well? You'll do better if your anchor text for that links is your keywords.
Good luck -- nice site too. Let me know if you need anything else!
-Second Platform
Web Design in Wisconsin : Milwaukee Web Design : Second Platform
•
•
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 86
Reputation:
Rep Power: 4
Solved Threads: 2
Junior Poster in Training
I would remove the flash intro page. There is no content in there. Search engine start indexing pages from the root your domain which is index,default and home .extension.
Dexter Zaf
Ex-designz.net
Ex-designz.net
•
•
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 17
Reputation:
Rep Power: 3
Solved Threads: 0
Newbie Poster
Try submitting a site map to google - let it know of any other pages / sections of your site it might not be able to reach from your intro page.
•
•
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Romania
Posts: 48
Reputation:
Rep Power: 4
Solved Threads: 0
Light Poster
•
•
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: india
Posts: 143
Reputation:
Rep Power: 4
Solved Threads: 15
Junior Poster
Re: Search Engine quesiton Hi There.
I have seen your site, it's nice,
Yes there are lots of possibilities for SEO your site,
I am giving you some tips
a) I have seen you are using flash Buttons for navigation with good effect, but that effect can also made by images onRollover,
b) Make text links at footer or other place,
c) add HTML And XML Site Map in your website,
No need to remove the flash intro just add a div with search engine friendly contents, And JavaScript to detect when browsers are capable of viewing Flash, if browsers are capable so show flash or replace the alternative, Search engine spiders are not able to Run the JavaScript, they will index the alternative content. Where you can use the search engine friendly text and other SEO techniques,
Programming Flash accessibility isn't spamming, as long as the alternative content accurately reflects the visible movie. In fact, alternative content is mandatory if you want to build an accessible site.
Search "How to SEO Flash, Article by Jonathan Hochman" For more details
Katarey
I have seen your site, it's nice,
Yes there are lots of possibilities for SEO your site,
I am giving you some tips
a) I have seen you are using flash Buttons for navigation with good effect, but that effect can also made by images onRollover,
b) Make text links at footer or other place,
c) add HTML And XML Site Map in your website,
No need to remove the flash intro just add a div with search engine friendly contents, And JavaScript to detect when browsers are capable of viewing Flash, if browsers are capable so show flash or replace the alternative, Search engine spiders are not able to Run the JavaScript, they will index the alternative content. Where you can use the search engine friendly text and other SEO techniques,
Programming Flash accessibility isn't spamming, as long as the alternative content accurately reflects the visible movie. In fact, alternative content is mandatory if you want to build an accessible site.
Search "How to SEO Flash, Article by Jonathan Hochman" For more details
Katarey
|
•
•
•
•
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
DaniWeb Site Layout and Usability Marketplace
Linear Mode
•
•
•
•
adsense adult advertising blogging bomb book business coding copyright development earth engine failure forum google home hybrid internal combustion engine internet legal malware marketing mcafee microsoft monetization msn news operating pagerank patent phishing privacy publishing revenue search security seo sex silverlight software space spyware support system technical universe web webmaster wiki yahoo
- The secrets of google search engine ranking (Promotion and Marketing Plans)
- Internet Explorer Freezes when using a search engine (Windows 9x / Me)
- Intigrating a search engine into a website. (Existing Scripts)
- Deleting subjects in a search engine window (Web Browsers)
- Using Search Engine Friendly PHP URLs (PHP)
Other Threads in the Site Layout and Usability Forum
- Previous Thread: Is it good to place links as references on a websites?
- Next Thread: Help me please, maybe you have the same question with me!
