Internal Pages not crawled by Google due to flash navigation

[souvik]

Hi,

I am using flash based navagation in my site http://www.4dindia.com. The home page in nicely crawled and updated by Google but internal pages are not crwaled. How can make googlebot to crawl internal pages ?

Souvik Chaki

[flood6]

Your options are pretty much this:

-resort to "unsavory" SEO techniques (I would discourage this)

-do an alternate HTML version of your site (time consuming)

-stop using flash (the "flash haters" will preach this one)

-place a simple HTML footer navigation area at the bottom of your site

-make a static, HTML only site map with links to each of your content pages, the one you have now uses flash

In your case I would reccomend the last one or maybe the last two combined. The sitemap doesn't have to be pretty. 99% of your visitors will never look there, and if they do, they will appreciate the utilitarian "feel" of it.

An example of how I do this for most of my sites is here. It looks nothing like the rest of my site, I had to do it before I discovered the wonders of mod-rewrite to cure dynamic URL's, and have been doing it ever since. It's ugly, cold, and pure function, but the SE's can find what I want them to find now.

Hope this helped.

[souvik]

Originally Posted by flood6

Your options are pretty much this:

-resort to "unsavory" SEO techniques (I would discourage this)

-do an alternate HTML version of your site (time consuming)

-stop using flash (the "flash haters" will preach this one)

-place a simple HTML footer navigation area at the bottom of your site

-make a static, HTML only site map with links to each of your content pages, the one you have now uses flash

In your case I would reccomend the last one or maybe the last two combined. The sitemap doesn't have to be pretty. 99% of your visitors will never look there, and if they do, they will appreciate the utilitarian "feel" of it.

An example of how I do this for most of my sites is here. It looks nothing like the rest of my site, I had to do it before I discovered the wonders of mod-rewrite to cure dynamic URL's, and have been doing it ever since. It's ugly, cold, and pure function, but the SE's can find what I want them to find now.

Hope this helped.

Thanks for the sugession, but my site is not totally in flash. I guess a good gatway pge for the site can be help. Wht u say ? I have tried Web Position Gold gateway page, hope it will be indexed by Googlebot and index my full site.

[greeneagle]

souvik,

When using Flash Text,
Flash Buttons,
Flash Movies,
Flash at all:

I recommend mixing in HTML body text and textural links with the Flash. GOOGLE recommends a site map and textural links.

1. You can still "dazzle" with the mix. One of our last launches for a client has 2 quick loading Flash movies on the Home Page, but a good mix of HTML + 2 navigation methods (one textural): http://www.tubeltechnologies.com

2. Another method "4Guys" (a leading Houston Web Design Firm) used on their home page was to have mostly Flash visible until you scroll down at 1024x768 res.:
http://www.4guys.com

3. Of course you can make it big like http://www.2advanced.com (in top 2500 sites)with 2200+ sites linking in and do anything you want - Believe me every page gets Ranked then!

Good Luck,
Ken