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Last post: 5 months, 4 weeks ago | Thread started: Feb 25, 08, 11:46 a.m.

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• eegrek

  Does google recognize the text pulled from an xml file in to flash? I'm guessing not.

  Feb 25, 08, 11:46 a.m. – Permalink

• daveFelton

  no, use in your html page, in the 'title' tag:

  meta name="keywords" content="lorem, ipsum, dolor,..."
  meta name="description" content="lorem ipsum dolor..."

  • these are tags by the way, wrapped in < >– daveFelton

  

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  Dog-earFeb 25, 08, 11:48 a.m. – Permalink

• eegrek

  yeah, that's what I thought ... bummer.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 25, 08, 11:48 a.m. – Permalink

• heavyt

  Last time i checked, google didnt use the meta tags for indexing anymore. Might want to double-check that.

  • I hear they are back into the mix. Definitely doesn't hurt.– skelly_b

  

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  Dog-earFeb 25, 08, 12:04 p.m. – Permalink

• daveFelton

  I added some to my flash site and sure as shit the description I put using meta tags shows up when I search for myself in google.

  • Plus, its one of the methods for SEO we use at the agency I work for on most flash sites.– daveFelton

  

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  Dog-earFeb 25, 08, 12:10 p.m. – Permalink

• jpea

  if you're embedding your flash with a javascript method (swfobject or similar), just use a scripting language (php/asp) to read your xml file and spit its contents into your flash replacement div.

  • this is what you want to do.– skelly_b

  

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  Dog-earFeb 25, 08, 12:11 p.m. – Permalink

• heavyt

  @daveFelton - not to say it wont show up in the search results page. I was under the impression that it doesnt index your site on those terms. (ie. If you put 'super guy' in your meta-tags, and then search google for 'super guy', your site wont come up.)
  In your site, trying googling 'crew creative advertising' , which is in your meta tags. You'll see it doesnt come up in the search results.
  If you were to search for your name, it will, but because that is your page title and also your URL.

  • http://googlewebmast…
    theory confirmed– heavyt

  

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  Dog-earFeb 25, 08, 12:23 p.m. – Permalink

• mrbee2828

  You can pull the XML file in and populate a div with something like PHP and have Google index that way. The you can use swf object to write over a div tag if the Flash player is present. Then both presentation have the same content which is "legal".

  http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobj…

  

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  Dog-earFeb 25, 08, 12:34 p.m. – Permalink

• daveFelton

  I see what you mean now, heavyt. All I know is that I didn't even show up in the first page when searching for myself, but shortly after I added the meta tags, I've always shown up in at least the top three. jpea's method will def work, though, so I'll probably implement that type of solution as well.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 25, 08, 12:34 p.m. – Permalink

• mightyj

  also check out this post: http://labs.bigspaceship.com/blo…

  

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  Dog-earFeb 25, 08, 12:40 p.m. – Permalink