I didn’t think this was possible, but a new clients has asked if it is possible. I have heard that making flash files searchable / able to be index was something that might happen now or in the future.
Does anyone know?
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There is nothing you can do to a Flash movie itself to make it searchable or findable in the normal Web sense. It’s as opaque to normal Web search as text in a photo would be.
Google has announced a number of different initiatives to try to index the text content of Flash movies, but most of the things I’ve read about this effort are not that optimistic that Flash – however relevant to the topic of search – will ever perform within an order of magnitude of HTML text about the same topic.
You could try adding some text inside the object tag of the Flash movie – I don’t know how you would do that in Freeway, but you could do it in a text editor and do a little a/b test of it. Something like this:
<object classid="..." codebase="..." width="123" height="456" id="foo" align="middle">
<param name="movie" value="..."/>
<param name="quality" value="high"/>
<param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"/>
<embed src="..." quality="high" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="123" height="456" name="foo" align="middle" type="..." pluginspage="..."/>
<p>A bunch of text content here. This might be seen by
browsers that don’t have Flash installed or maybe by
search engines. It’s worth a try, anyway.</p>
</object>
Walter
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Thank you Walter. As always.
Nathan Garner
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On 17 Aug 2010, at 02:38, waltd wrote:
There is nothing you can do to a Flash movie itself to make it searchable or findable in the normal Web sense. It’s as opaque to normal Web search as text in a photo would be.
Google has announced a number of different initiatives to try to index the text content of Flash movies, but most of the things I’ve read about this effort are not that optimistic that Flash – however relevant to the topic of search – will ever perform within an order of magnitude of HTML text about the same topic.
You could try adding some text inside the object tag of the Flash movie – I don’t know how you would do that in Freeway, but you could do it in a text editor and do a little a/b test of it. Something like this:
<object classid="..." codebase="..." width="123" height="456" id="foo" align="middle"> <param name="movie" value="..."/> <param name="quality" value="high"/> <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"/> <embed src="..." quality="high" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="123" height="456" name="foo" align="middle" type="..." pluginspage="..."/> <p>A bunch of text content here. This might be seen by browsers that don’t have Flash installed or maybe by search engines. It’s worth a try, anyway.</p> </object>Walter
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