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Originally Posted by Kamfor
I know I cannot explain my situation to Google and even if I could they wouldn't care about it 
But I am not sure if the Google spiders are able to see javascript.
Is it worth to risk a penalty? That's a good question. From my perspective, no. But our client thinks differently... He wants to show his flash page to the visitors with boring music opening in a maximized browser window without browser toolbars - and he doesn't care with SEO rules. His keywords are quite competitive ones. His site wasn't listed in the top 100 before the html pages and I'm sure it wouldn't listed without html even if I'd point 200 good inbound links to his flash page.
So what can we risk? He wasn't listed and he won't if Google penalizes his website. Until then I can test how clever Googlebots are 
However, if anyone has a good Google guideline-friendly solution for this situation, I'd be thankful to learn. |
This is not bad from an
SEO standpoint. This is bad from EVERY standpoint. How do you feel when your are browsing from site to site and all of a sudden a window pops up, disables the normal browser functions and starts playing music? You close it, you leave, you never come back. In that order.
And what if the user has a slow connection or an older computer? Either they are forced to a page where they have to wait forever for the flash to load (ie, they leave and never come back) or they don't have flash and are forced to a page with no content and now no back button (in otherwords, they leave and never come back) but at least you still have the rest of the search engine traffic... although...
No, search engines don't process javascript - but they do check javascript. I have had links contained in javascript (document.write(<a href="someaddress">Click</a>)) discovered and indexed, but beyond that, the spider does not figure out what the scripts do, although the spider will look for redirect commands in the javascript as part of the spam detection process. And if it finds redirects, it can deindex the site.
So this is bad for your users, bad for the search engines, but I guess at least your client's site looks cool...