Best way to present the content in flash to search engines

Well.. there are three ways

Good way, bad way, another one.. not good and not bad.


Lets discuss about the bad way first

Cloaking

Yes. It is the bad way. Showing different to search engines and site visitors. Obviously Google hates it.

It is not good practice to show the flash content to the site visitor and text content in that flash to the search engines. There is a smart way to do this. But don't go for Cloaking or doorway page techniques. It comes under SEO black-hat technique.


Hiding text behind flash

This is not good and not bad. Not an SEO Blak-hat technique. But there is a rule. You must show the content same format which is exists in the flash movie but not any other text.
It is not a black-hat technique because you are not showing the different content or URL to the search engines and site visitors.

Well.. there is a better technique below..

using <noscript> tags


Interesting !!!

Call the flash movie using javascript and write your flash content  html version in <noscript> tags. Obviously search engines ignores javascript and get the content which is in between <noscript> tags.

So.. It is supportable by Google itself. See: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66355

They mentioned

Provide the textual contents of JavaScript in a noscript tag.

 Finally i would like to repeat it. Sorry for repeating

Ensure the text you are showing in <noscript> tags is the same content and format in the flash move

Bing and Yahoo Search engines following and indexing nofollow/noindex ?

Yes. I already made a post regarding this.

http://web-search-techniques.blogspot.com/2009/07/yahoo-and-bing-ignoring-noindex-and.html


Well unfortunately the meta tags in the http://www.melbmartialarts.com.au/ were changed. So we don't have any proof.

Here I am going to give you the proof.

I created robots meta tags of this blog as following

<meta name='slurp' rel='noindex,nofollow'/>

<meta name='msnbot' rel='noindex,nofollow'/>

Lets see what is going to happne in yahoo and bing search engines

I am going to give you the experiment result in my next posts.

BING SEO Technique - Bing Bug

Important Bing SEO technique

I would like to address one SEO technique for Bing.

I found it is very interesting and foolishness of Bing Search Technique.

Roll up your sleeves. Start re-optimizing for Bing if it is so important for you.

Suppose if you want to optimize a page for "Bing Ignoring NOINDEX" you will not found for "Bing ignores NOINDEX".

Do you need a proof?

You can find http://web-search-techniques.blogspot.com/ on Google for both "Bing Ignoring NOINDEX" and "Bing ignores NOINDEX" key phrases.

But on BING you can find this blog only for "Bing Ignoring NOINDEX" key phrase but not for "Bing ignores NOINDEX".

So.. BING is just in learning stage. SEO's can treat this as Bing Bug (not Bug Bing).

So(SEO) be careful while you are optimizing your site for Bing too. Keep in mind all the possible combination of keywords.

I will all SEO's.. Happy Bing Optimisation..

Google url search command

Today while i got to work with Google URL search.
I found one interesting thing

for view the all url's indexed from www.anglingadventures.com.au we have to use the site:anglingadventures.com.au command in Google.

suppose if we want to search "contact" in url of this particular site we have to use the following command

site:anglingadventures.com.au inurl:contact (all at once)

It works fine.

now i want to search for "world" in url of angling adventures site. I have to use the following commnad

site:anglingadventures.com.au inurl:world

it shows no records. but there is an url containing that word. www.anglingadventures.com.au/Fishing_Tours/World_Wide_Tours which has already been in google index.

if we search for "world_wide_tours" it is giving the result

i.e

site:anglingadventures.com.au inurl:World_Wide_Tours

But it is not giving the result when i search for world or wide in URL.

Even Google considers it all as single word it has to return the result.

Any ideas? Please post