SEO Redirect Question

Hey everyone,

If this was covered, please let me know where and i can look for myself but my question involves optimization for two sites. I have two domains. One is an html version and the other contains flash. The HTML version has a redirect code that points to the flash page. I have noticed that only the flash site is showing up in yahoo and msn but not google. So my question is which page should I optimize? Would it be bad if I did the same thing to both pages? Thanks for any help!

The HTML site will not show up anywhere as it is redirected to the Flash site therefore you would be better off optimising the Flash version.

Otherwise if you are not getting the desired result form your flash site you would certainly be better off using your HTML version and offer users an option to view the flash based version from there.

Regards,
Mark.

First, what type of redirect are you using? I'm assuming it's a 301 redirect, so this answer is based on that. When you 301 redirect your basically telling search engines "Hey, this web page is no longer here, it's been moved other there", hence why it's called a permanente redirect.

Now, the next step is for you to let us know what type of redirect you are using, but that doesn't change the fact that search engine crawlers cannot read flash. One choice you have is to make a landing page made in HTML that you can optimize on the main domain and insert the flash inside of the inner pages.

The code I'm using as a redirect is the following:

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=xxxxxxx.xxxxx">

The flash site I have has the flash file along with the html copy underneath it utilizing links and headings. Should I not even have anything on the redirect page?