Flash and Sniffers
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- wetterink
Does anyone know how to create an invisible sniffer page in Flash?
I have a client that needs his Flash site to improve in the search engine rankings.
- rabattski0
what do you want to sniff?
- wetterink0
Key words...Text inside the Flash site.
I posted a thread yesterday about how to get my clients search engine's rankings up. Someone's response was that I creat an invisible sniffer page or upload an html site.
He has an old HTML site that we could upload, but I don't want it to be seen by the viewer.
If you wantto look at my old thread "Flash Ranking" it might help you understand more.
Thanks a lot. I am in a bind with this.
- rabattski0
why not use meta tags with keywords?
- rabattski0
google can also index .swf files.
- wetterink0
I think I know how to do Meta tags.
I have this in the index script:Is that the correct way to do it? Would it help if I created a scene in the site that couldn't be accessed by the viewer, but it has a bunch of random words?
- wetterink0
Hold on...for some reason it wouldn't show my Meta code
META name="keywords" content="Comics, tangledweb, tangled web, Spartanburg, SC, anime, busts, statues">
- rabattski0
just google for the proper meta syntax for adding keywords (some search engines don't work w/meta tags anymore though).
i'd say you could try to add words in your flash file, but i have no idea in what way search engines indexes flash.
- wetterink0
thanks man.
just so i know. what is a sniffer page? is that kind of what I suggested when I mentioned creating an invisible scene full fo random words someone might search by?
- rabattski0
well in most cases a sniffer is just a term used for sniffing browsers, platforms and / or plugins. you know sniff if flash 5 or up is available etc. in your case you're not talking about sniffers unless you want to sniff out the hits from search engines who wants to index your client's site. is possible too w/ php you could redirect them to another page or whatever (don't know if they fall for that though).
- Rand0
"Macromedia Flash Dispatcher Behavior: the deployment kit contains a detection tool called the Macromedia Flash Dispatcher. It comprises several files that work together to detect whether or not a suitable version of Macromedia Flash Player is installed in a user's browser. You can then direct the user to the appropriate content based on that information. "
- shaft0
Google ignores meta tags. It reads well h1-h6, p. Good tricks are putting keywords in noframe, noembed, noscript, marquee (with args that make it invisible) and style="hidden" or "position: absolute; top: -100;" divs.
Use alt and title attributes extensively throughout the site. Folder and file names count too.
- version30
check the source at http://pixeltwins.com/
its a flash page but i'm first on the google list when searching "pixeltwins" list and it reads my meta information
good luck
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- nokati0
You might consider google sitemaps down the road:
https://www.google.com/webmaster…I've also seen decent results from including links to the flash sites content xml/php/txt/etc in simple html comments. Your milage may vary.
- imakedesign0
the most important thing is your st two words in your page title.