<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">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 class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 1, 2006, at 1:41 AM, Alan Shaw wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><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 href="http://chakramedia.com/deeplink-backbutton/index.html">http://chakramedia.com/deeplink-backbutton/index.html</A> for the Flash implementation,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> and</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://contentwithstyle.co.uk/Articles/64/clean-urls-for-a-better-search-engine-ranking">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><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>