I am planning to build a website completely in Flex. All the contents will be static. No DB will be used. Unfortunately I am not building the website for PUMA or NIKE and so SEO is important. There is an overwhelming and confusing information out there about Flex and SEO.
The following is a piece of information I found on the web
” FLEX( Flash ) uses XML as a primary source of content, and XHTML is just a custom XML. The idea is to to use the HTML pages as XML content for the FLEX( Flash ) application. The XML can be read and indexed by the search engines, and it’s also the ideal content source for your FLEX( Flash ) application.’ It goes on to explain how this can be done. Is this really that simple. “
Could someone give some credible links. SEO is important for me.
If I’m really worried about SEO, I’m not building my site using Flex, Flash or Silverlight. A large part of SEO comes from the search engines crawling the content on your site’s pages and analyzing the links into and out of your site. When you create a site using Flash or Silverlight, you’re making it a lot harder for search engines to crawl your content.
If you’re determined to use Flex for your website, I would recommend reading:
You’ll also want to make your URLs as SEO friendly as possible (ex. http://www.yoursite.com/articles/my-article-about-flex/).