Comments on: One Reason To Avoid Flash Based Sites

By: Thesis Writing

Thesis Writing — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:08:39 +0000

From the search engines point of view they don’t like heavy flash site they take time open.

By: Search Engines Indexing Flash : Webby Thoughts

Search Engines Indexing Flash : Webby Thoughts — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:31:18 +0000

[...] which was actually something that I talked about in my post the other day about one reason to avoid flash based sites. [...]

By: BuG56

BuG56 — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:41:31 +0000

I wouldn’t really consider that a problem, but just so you know, In order to create fluidity in a flash website, everything is usually in one file.

Just a quick 101 on flash based sites :

There is no html involved within the actual flash : so no hyperlinks or anything like that(So a sitemap, wouldn’t really work, there is no direct link.). The way a flash based site is usually set up is that there are buttons (clickable elements) and these usually point you to another part of the flash movie. So all navigation is within the flash file itself. There is no way to direct link to a certain part of a flash file, which is why there was none when you searched google.

If you have more than one flash file, it’s a different story, but unless hotlinking is a problem (I don’t see the big deal, they’re usually easy enough to navigate anyway) it’s not really necessary.

Interestingly enough, If you check out some of the other features right next to it (Such as the fruitista freeze or the big bell box meal) They do open in a new window, with their own urls…

Anyway, to be fair, they should have a link somewhere to a non-flash based alternative website.

By: Corey Freeman

Corey Freeman — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:07:19 +0000

Interesting example, and now I want some Taco Bell. I never thought about it that way (I don’t often link to tacos…), but I can see how other sites might find that a major issue for say, a hosting package. I read a couple of your posts and your blog is pretty interesting.

You might want to be careful about how you reply to comments, though, you’re falling into the “defensive webmaster” area.(http://www.diligentdesign.net/approaches/fk-you-5-ways-to-spot-defensive-webmasters/)

By: webbythoughts

webbythoughts — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:41:34 +0000

Rashid, I think it is a perfectly good example of something to avoid when building a flash site. Taco Bell did a poor job of designing the site for search engines and for providing individual links that other people could reference which is something anybody developing a flash site should consider when building their site.

By: rashid

rashid — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:00:31 +0000

That’s a very stupid example, usually there are different addresses for each page in the site, I’m talking about good ones, also there are many ways to increase a flash site’s SEO, dig into it.