Flash, SEO and Optimization - How To Properly Use Flash On Your Websites - But there are...
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But there are cases when sites place important messages, via flash, in these locations. But if many people tune out these locations, they are also tuning out that important message. Hence the reason the flash doesn’t do so well on the page.
So there’s tip number one: Don’t place your flash where it will be ignored – namely those spots on the page normally associated with advertising.
My second flash tip – don’ t take up most of the screen with it. Keep the screen real estate it occupies to less than ˝ the screen, preferably on the left side. There are many reasons for this:
Too often, as people are orienting themselves to the page, their eyes scan the page and are all over it for a few seconds, and then fixate on the top left of the page. If you have a flash movie running (and especially if its one without controls) they have missed a few seconds of that message. And we all know what good a message is that’s incomplete?
Another reason for minimizing flash usage: While more and more people are adopting broadband every day, still close to half of the US uses dial up. Which means everything takes longer to load. And if these users are waiting for a flash movie to load, they could navigate away from your site in frustration because the page is taking so long to load.
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