<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">just after you sent this there was a post on my blog about the same sort of thing, so i put up a little more in-depth info there:<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><A href="http://blog.deconcept.com/2006/03/13/modern-approach-flash-seo/">http://blog.deconcept.com/2006/03/13/modern-approach-flash-seo/</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">the last couple of comments on this page.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 1, 2006, at 1:52 PM, Alan Shaw wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>Ah, thanks, Geoff.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>-A</DIV> <DIV><BR><BR> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 8/1/06, <B class="gmail_sendername">Geoff Stearns</B> <<A href="mailto:geoff@deconcept.com">geoff@deconcept.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN> <BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <DIV> <DIV style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">you would need to use server side tech to do it, as of right now, search engines won't execute javascript, so they would just see your blank page before the js writes the html into the page. <DIV><BR> </DIV> <DIV><BR> </DIV> <DIV><BR> <DIV></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="e" id="q_10cca49dae121dac_1"> <DIV>On Aug 1, 2006, at 1:41 AM, Alan Shaw wrote:</DIV><BR></SPAN></DIV> <DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="e" id="q_10cca49dae121dac_3"> <DIV>Hi,</DIV> <DIV>I'm interested in implementing deep linking in a way that will be both user- and search-engine-friendly.</DIV> <DIV>My most promising references appear to be</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://chakramedia.com/deeplink-backbutton/index.html" target="_blank">http://chakramedia.com/deeplink-backbutton/index.html</A> for the Flash implementation, </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> and</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://contentwithstyle.co.uk/Articles/64/clean-urls-for-a-better-search-engine-ranking" target="_blank">http://contentwithstyle.co.uk/Articles/64/clean-urls-for-a-better-search-engine-ranking </A> for URL rewriting with useful keywords, allegedly pleasing to Google. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I was also thinking that when the user goes to a particular bookmarkable state in the application (either by Flash navigation or by following a deep link), I could use JavaScript to replace text in the div under the swf with specific search-engine meat corresponding to the current state. This text could come from Flash or from the server db and be set with "nodeValue" in JS I guess. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>So my questions are:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>1. feasibility (I'm no JavaScript expert)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>2. sneakiness (would Google penalize this technique?)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Apologies if this is too far afield for this group, but I thought it's really not a Flashcoders thing, and the JS knowledge might be found here!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>-A</DIV> <DIV> </DIV></SPAN></DIV> <DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">_______________________________________________</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">SWFObject mailing list</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com" target="_blank">SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com</A></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com" target="_blank">http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com </A></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR> </DIV></DIV></DIV><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>SWFObject mailing list<BR><A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com"> SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com</A><BR><A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com" target="_blank">http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com </A><BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">SWFObject mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com">SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com">http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>