Comments on: SWFAddress SEO solution for Gaia Flash Framework

By: Flash CMS

Flash CMS — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:05:37 +0000

thank you for the workaround.. nowadays flash websites are not really seo friendly.. but I see that they starting to be

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By: Niklas

Niklas — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:41:10 +0000

Hi there Christian!
Thanks for your answer.
It will be very interesting to see your SEO solution for sure!
This was somewhat of an eyeopener to me. It seems like I had misunderstood the whole solution… So I realised that the same thing is happening in your example as well regarding the “clean” homepage. But this means that the “clean” URL will give a result of “content not found”…hmmm. I will try this with a 303 redirect i .htaccess.

Niklas

By: admin

admin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:45:27 +0000

Hi Niklas!

The changes I did to the Gaia classes were the only ones, but you only need them if you need to retrieve the language out of the url by using swfaddress before the site.xml is being loaded. Otherwise you don’t have to touch the Gaia classes. The thing with the not needed “home” in the url was discussed in the Gaia forum somewhere, but this will not be changed, so you have to stick with that or code a work around. At the moment I’m working on a more advanced seo/flash with swfaddress solution. I’ll post it as soon as I have finished it!

Cheers,
Christian

By: Niklas

Niklas — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:56:00 +0000

Oh – sorry I didn’t mean http://www.you.com/#/home but instead http://www.you.com/home (when javascript is disabled)…

By: Niklas

Niklas — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:05:15 +0000

Hi there Christian!
I must say that I’m very impressed by your work. Especially the different back end solutions – like the cms for example.
Two questions – at the moment the solution above seems a little bit over my head when it comes to understanding & working with php etc.
In the Gaia forum you talk about changing code in the main.as & GaiaSWFAddress.as… Are these the only changes you need to make if you don’t want the dynamically created menu etc. from the example above & still run the SWFaddress seo-example?
One more question:
Wouldn’t it be possible to use a 303 redirect in the .htaccess file for the home page (since gaia is adding to the home – like this: http://www.you.com/#/home & the SWFaddress seo-example is using a cleaner url http://www.you.com/). So you just do a 303 redirect for http://www.you.com/#/home to http://www.you.com/ or would this be bad SEO-wise?

All the best, Niklas

By: admin

admin — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:40:45 +0000

Perfect!

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:39:34 +0000

Fixed!
The problem was that php was not calling with the absolute path

$siteXML = “http://www.website.com/xml/site.php?country=es&lang=es”;

thanks a lot!!

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:23:08 +0000

thanks for answering!
the issue is that I will have different content in 6 languages and 20 countries and it is necessary to generate the xml dynamically from a mysql query
$siteXML= “xml/site.php?country=uk&lang=en”;

thanks!!

By: admin

admin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:47:18 +0000

Hi Adrian

Difficult to say! I don’t see why dou you have to pass the language parameter. I do the language switch in index.php and then either use $siteXML=site_es.xml or $siteXML=site_en.xml.