Re: FN-FORUM: search engine do's and dont's again please

date posted 15th July 2005 14:15

I would strongly suggest learning a little HTML and CSS for the best
results. You don't have to become an expert in it, just find some code
that does what you want and re-use it a lot.

The generators in other programs tend to use rather odd HTML or a lot of
it, so if you find some clean (not a lot of HTML) that's cross-browser
friendly and you can change minimally to change things like the style of
text you'll get good results.

You don't have to become an HTML/CSS/SEO expert, just learn just enough
to get your clients some decent results. There's plenty of help
available on here and other lists for someone trying to get their CSS
working.


Paul

On 15 Jul 2005 11:52:41 -0000, "jd" said:
>
> Thanks for the info
>
> my position is that i have done some sites for photographers that want
> the thing done in flash, so i want to create a site in flash, but also
> have the front page as a more accessible and search engine friendly
> page that will strongly prompt the viewer to visit the flash site but
> still provide some kind of alternative to others and hopefully this
> method will be google - friendly
>
> for example to cut down on my workload - the full portfolio
> presentation could only be accessed through flash, and i could easily
> do some html alternative perhaps even using the photoshop web generator
> (although possibly not)
>
>
> john
>
>
>
> On 15 Jul 2005, at 12:10, Paul Silver wrote:
>
> >
> > On 15 Jul 2005 10:55:45 -0000, "jd" said:
> >> several of you have mentioned the importance of placing html text in
> >> your pages as the spiders read this ( i have previously done my sites
> >> in flash to make some nice eye candy but want to get somewhere in the
> >> search engine listings )
> >>
> >> if i was to do my text as graphics, but to include alt tags - would
> >> the
> >> spiders treat this in the same manner as they would html text ? I want
> >> to get as comprehensive an idea so taht if anyone does ask me to do
> >> something i can tell them the pros and cons of each method
> >
> > Spiders do read the alt text and treat it as part of the page.
> >
> > However, it's generally recommended that you have around 200 words in
> > the text of your page about whatever subject is being covered. That's a
> > hell of a lot of alt text.
> >
> > I can appreciate you're trying to find a solution to having the text
> > look the way you want, and still available to spiders / screen readers,
> > but really for best results you do need to show the text visibly on the
> > page. With the font smoothing in OSX and XP standard text doesn't have
> > to look horrible any more, it's just a shame that XP doesn't ship with
> > it turned on (or at least it didn't used to.)
> >
> > If it helps at all the spiders from the big search engines do read text
> > in PDFs now, although I'm not sure they give them quite as good a rank
> > as an HTML page with the same text in it.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Paul
> >
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