Search Engine Friendly Flash Websites!

Having your website come up on search engines can be a vital source for a portion of your prospects. But what good is having a high ranking if you’re embarrassed to show others your website? Now it is true that Flash websites alone are not very search engine friendly, but here at PhotoBiz, we have a 5 step plan that will enhance your visibility. I will explain how you can have the style of a Flash site and still come up with a high ranking in Google and other search engines.

1. Meta Tags down to the page level.
2. HTML mirror site and an HTML splash page
3. Link a blog to your website
4. Google Local :: Its FREE!
5. A dynamic google compliant XML site map

First of all, Why don’t search engines pick up a Flash site very well? It is because Flash is a movie and HTML is text. Search engines can read the text a lot better than they can a movie and give ranks according to their algorithm. If I knew their algorithm, I would be writing bestselling books, but I don’t. Knowing that this is the cause, Let me explain what PhotoBiz is doing to help you out!

Most flash sites enable the ability to support Meta Tags for the site as a whole. These Meta Tags (Title, Description, and Keywords) help search engines find your website by indexing them like HTML text would in an HTML website. Here at PhotoBiz, we have Meta Tags associated with each and every page of your website. This allows for your site to be indexed multiple times and many more Meta Tags. Our talented support team will walk you through the process of how to set these up, show you how they work, and offer advice to you on what to put in each section.

Often you will see a landing page that comes up before a Flash website. While this page serves many purposes like being a traffic director for all of your visitors, you will notice that it loads up faster because it is an HTML page. This “Splash Page” is often more limited in design but can support HTML tags and again improve your search engine rankings. Adding this page will cause the search engine “crawlers” to index your website multiple times and pick up the HTML tags. Linking a blog to your website is an additional way to have your site indexed by search engines.

If an HTML website offers the best results on Search Engines and a Flash website can provide the dynamic design to attract customers, why don’t you combine the two? PhotoBiz has designed an HTML mirror site that makes it easy to create and inexpensive to your budget. Once you build your Flash website, the photos and text will “mirror” right over into an HTML version without the music, moving pictures, and Flash design. You don’t need another domain name, you only have to build your website one time, and reap all of the SEO benefits that you need out of the HTML website while maintaining your powerful Flash website design.

Lastly, we have an automated proprietary system in place that is extremely powerful and innovative in the industry. We have created an XML site map that resubmits itself to the top search engines every time that you republish your website. As you build your website, this XML site map is built which will give the Search Engines all of the information in your Flash “movie”.

As it is very important to have an empowering Flash design, especially in an industry where it is all about presentation, you still want to have the total SEO package. PhotoBiz prepares you by not only giving you the proper tools to do just that, but by helping you every step of the way.