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demonchild · 25/06/2008 11:38 AM

Hey guys,

Well I was working on a site (well, it's an old job now), and I had the flash page up and working. However, I found out that search engines cannot read flash pages and index them properly unless metatags are inserted into the flash page.
I was told to go into the .fla and edit the title, and description tags. The thing is that, I used Flash CS3 to construct everything, and I have no clue where which option to go into to get the metatags to eidt.

I went searching on Adobe's site, and I found this:

Quote:The $TL (SWF file title) and $DC (description metadata) template variables let you include search metadata in the HTML. This ability can make the SWF file more visible to search engines, and provide meaningful search results. Use the $MD template variable to include the search metadata as an XML string.

I understand this but where would I go to get to edit of this? Unfortunately, I need this done sometime soon or else..

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Thanks..

ZiNgA BuRgA · 26/06/2008 05:13 PM

Why do you need metadata? Does the site need to be indexed? It's one of the reason why flash sites phail - search engines don't index them. I doubt they'd read anything SWF to care for the meta tags for it (there isn't much readable content in SWF files, so if I were programming a search bot, I'd just not bother writing an SWF parser).
If you want to provide indexable content, chuck it between the <object> tags, eg:

HTML Code

<object blah blah>
Insert stuff that the search engine will see here
</object>

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