Greetings, bostonsvip!
To start, I pasted your website URL into my browser Address line and
clicked "Go".
My browser and cursor froze.
After a little while, the screen started moving. When it finally came
to a stop (much later), it contained the following text:
BOSTON'S VIP.COM
COMING SOON
BOSTON'S PREMIER SOURCE
FOR
NIGHT LIFE, ENTERTAINMENT & DINING
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT US
@
INFO@BOSTONSVIP.COM
If I pull down "View --> Source" in my browser menu, I see that the
entire contents of your website is a Flash presentation:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>BOSTON'S VIP</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="#000000" link="#FFFF00" vlink="#FFFF00">
<!-- Created with CoffeeCup Firestarter http://www.coffeecup.com -->
<div align="center">
<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/cabs/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0"
ID=index WIDTH=700 HEIGHT=577>
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="index.swf">
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>
<PARAM NAME=loop VALUE=false>
<EMBED src="index.swf" loop=false quality=high WIDTH=700
HEIGHT=577 TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>
</div>
</BODY>
</HTML>
1. Google indexes websites, and determines their "value" to the web
community based on the text of the website. It ignores everything
between the <html> code delimiters. If you remove everything between
the <html> delimiters from the above file, there is no text at all on
your website; it consists only of a Flash presentation. Google hates
Flash entry portals.
The e-mail address for more information is just a picture inside the
Flash movie; a viewer can not just click on it to request more
information. You will want to make sure your e-mail address is a
"live" hyperlink.
To the Googlebot, there is nothing there. So... when you are
developing your website as it will be, your designer needs to be sure
to include lots of text about subjects relevant to the theme of your
website, with links from your main page to your subpages for the
Googlebot to follow. In addition, you will want to include <meta>
description and keywords. The Googlebot now ignores these because
webmasters tried to "stack" them with hundreds of irrelevant keywords,
but many other search engines still look at the text inside <meta>
tags.
2. Web users hate Flash entry portals. Sure, they're catchy and
dramatic, but they eat bandwidth like there's no tomorrow, and they
can take forever to load. The Flash movie locked up my browser for a
long time. The only reason I didn't <ctrl-alt-del> to shut down that
browser window is because I am Answering this Question for you. I
won't go back to any site that loads this slowly; I'll find what I
need elsewhere. And I have cable broadband access! Imagine what this
site is like for someone with a pokey dial-up modem. When you develop
your real website, I recommend that you ditch the Flash entry portal.
At the very least, if you MUST keep the Flash intro, the first thing
the movie does should be to post a link called "Skip Intro" that
viewers can use to bypass the movie and go to your main page.
3. Finally, your website is UNDER CONSTRUCTION. Google, DMOZ (the Open
Directory Project), and other search engines are quite adamant that
they are only interested in websites with useful content, and yours
doesn't have any yet. So there isn't any point in submitting your site
to Google or any other search engines until you have your real website
up and running.
For more information to help you develop a Google-friendly website, I
recommend that you study the information in Google's Help Department:
://www.google.com/webmasters
Guidelines
://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html
Facts & Fiction (myths dispelled)
://www.google.com/webmasters/facts.html
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
://www.google.com/webmasters/seo.html
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
://www.google.com/webmasters/faq.html
User Support Discussion Forum
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=google.public.support.general
Another fabulous resource is the forum at WebmasterWorld.com:
http://www.webmasterworld.com
and at Search Engine World:
http://www.searchengineworld.com
Before Rating my Answer, if you have Questions about the information I
have given you, please post a Request for Clarification, and I will be
glad to see what I can do for you.
Regards,
aceresearcher |
