Flash Detection Page

[PunkyLZ]

We are working with a trade show exhibit company to do SEO. The client has tastefully used flash elements and I do not foresee a problem. We are running into one snag however. When you type in their URL they are using a refresh tag to point you to either the /home.html page or to the upgrade_flash.html if you are not using the latest version of flash. The snag comes in when the spiders try to index the site and of course all search engines, other than Excite and Google, can't get past the flash detection page. We have included a disallow this page in the robots.txt tag, but the spiders do not seem to obey.

Any suggestions on how to handle this? If you have any examples of sites that have the refresh/redirect I would appreciate the link. I'm not even sure if this is the right place to post this so Mod, please feel free to move it where you see fit.

Thanks!

[turtlwaX]

I personally don't do redirection. With all flash content, I create equivalent alternate content.

I do all detection in-line. Take a look at www.canusa.net or www.thunderwolveshockey.com to see how the detection is done.

[jawn_tech]

Nice logo for canusa.com, by the way.