With the advent of the Internet, optimizing the engine for search engines has become a full part in the computer world. The techniques of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) are numerous and useful to know which is more or less indexable by search engines. Referencing for Rich Internet Applications is even more frustrating. Currently the "robots" search engines scour the SWF files and index only the static text.
However, it is possible to obtain a very good reference ...
First, by creating XML files that will be driven by robots when indexing your SWF.
Thanks to Ted, here's an example implementation of the Flex Directory meant to be referenced as a conventional website.
- 1) Look at the source of the index.html file in the Flex Directory. All companies are listed in XML files.
- 2) Note the embed XSL in row 2
- 3) To open the XSL, we see that when calling the SWF with SWFObject, it switches to a variable parameter FlashVars "xmlurl" with value document.location. The file index.html charge therefore the application as an XML file. The robots will crawl the site and ignore the XSL but browse index.html. They will then index all societies. And the site only the tip of the index data as XML. Simple, fast, impressive.
Find the following article HERE.
Space150 proposes a different approach based on XHTML Faust. The idea is to make the website in xhtml / css and then add the Flash layer thereafter. Swf then parse the data within the description xhtml to display the contents of a richer (sound, photo, video, animation). This approach allows one hand to optimize the referencing Flex / Flash, but also make the site accessible to all (reader, no javascript, no flash).
Feel free to leave your impressions on these techniques with our Flex.
If you come for the first time on Flex-info.fr, you can subscribe to the RSS feed. Thank you for your visit!
July 1st, 2008 at 18 h 05 min
Interesting ... the engine is the big downside of Flex ... For applications for certain customers it does not matter, but for sites or 80% of visitors arrive via search engines is much more embarrassing. Even if the solutions proposed in the article looked interesting ... I have yet to see a full application to flex out of the big sites in php before I start!
Thank you for the info and links in any case ...
July 1st, 2008 at 20 h 35 min
I make an application to be well indexed in Flex, I will keep you informed on the progress of my research and référecement my Flex application
July 1st, 2008 at 22 h 09 min
Interesting article, but I just discovered recently on the site Clubic (http://www.clubic.com/actualite-149486-google-yahoo-indexeront-contenus-flash.html) Google and Yahoo have a kind of partnership with Adobe and will now be able to retrieve the text content of the swf files ... Obviously there will be many problems that it does not always make Flash accessible, but a small step forward!
July 3rd, 2008 at 11 h 06 min
Yes it is good news indeed! But it seems that this is not developed for swf called by a javascript ... (to circumvent the Active-x).
(http://www.neteco.com/149486-google-yahoo-indexeront-contenus-flash.html)
And that's a shame. But technology has thus wait and see.
August 1st, 2008 at 13 h 45 min
hello
Please I like working with Flex, however I find more tuto en francais!
see u
August 6th, 2008 at 14 h 04 min
<p> boujour </ p>
<p> tutorials you are looking for Flex / AIR in English? <br />
do you search Adobe AIR or Flex tutorials english </ p>
October 21st, 2008 at 17 h 00 min
I wanted to make you a little comment to say that your blog is very nice
October 30th, 2008 at 18 h 12 min
Merki beaucoup
November 21st, 2008 at 8 h 36 min
Hello, since flash player activex 10.xxx and have been updated I can not access my cameras on my chat red5 flex, everything else goes well, I can broadcast my cam and chat but I can not access the cams aurais users.quelqun of a solution to my problem please.
thank you
michel