Would this help in terms of Google or is it frowned upon?

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I have a Bludomain flash site, I really like the site but it's lost me major ground on Google since I switched over from a Photium html site. I'd rather not go back to Photium and lose the current site, but something has to give.

I have registered mydomain.co.uk and mydomain.com, with .co.uk being the current site. If I were to get my Photium site back up and running under the .com domain, and then on my splash page for the flash site have links to either enter the flash site or enter the html site, would google still index the html site but in turn increase the ranking of the .co.uk site, considering they'd (I assume) see the content of the .com site when indexing the .co.uk site?

I hope this makes sense, it kind of does in my head, but I fear it's not that simple in practice!
 
IMO still the same, but your html site would rank better, and google would treat the 2 sites as 2 separate domains, but some good content within your splash page would help rankings.
 
This is what I thought, although I guess I could just keep the two sites running and link to the flash site from the html one for those who want to view it that way and just let people find whichever of the two sites they come across. I used to rank really well with the Photium site so it's looking increasingly likely I'll have to go back down that route in some capacity.
 
General advice I've heard is avoid flash when rankings are important to you... or at least minimise the usage of it so that most of your site is effectively text which google seems to prefer. I hear there are some ways to get flash somewhat closer to supported (is it called Gadget API?!?) but not 100% on that or how good it actually is.
 
Quote:- "This is what I thought, although I guess I could just keep the two sites running and link to the flash site from the html one for those who want to view it that way and just let people find whichever of the two sites they come across. I used to rank really well with the Photium site so it's looking increasingly likely I'll have to go back down that route in some capacity."

Sounds reasonable, and will keep you up there in google, and with some clever design of the splash screen you could make it very obvious to people that they should visit via the splash site, but still have all your rich content on the html site. Don't believe google would frown on this at all.
 
Photium have actually just suggested the following

'Your old website could be set up on a sub-domain like html.yourdomain.co.uk and then a link to it could be placed on your splash page.'

Anyone got any experience of this?
 
I would check how google references sub-domains and how seriously they are treated by google rankings. Would also check if spiders would follow the link and then index the sub-domain pages.
 
Google will treat a sub-domain as a seperate entity and it will not influence the ranking of the parent site.

However all is not lost.

Create a folder in your main domain and put your html site in there. Place a link on your flash page to the index page within the new folder.

http://yoursite.com/newfolder/index.html

Don't expect the rankings to jump back. They will have to go through the reindexing process and you will have to ensure all internal links are altered to match the new layout.

Cheers

Jeff
 
JeffParker said:
Google will treat a sub-domain as a seperate entity and it will not influence the ranking of the parent site.

However all is not lost.

Create a folder in your main domain and put your html site in there. Place a link on your flash page to the index page within the new folder.

http://yoursite.com/newfolder/index.html

Don't expect the rankings to jump back. They will have to go through the reindexing process and you will have to ensure all internal links are altered to match the new layout.

Cheers

Jeff
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Thanks for that. Unfortunately though, the html site would be a template based site through Photium, so I wouldn't actually have the html files, I just log in through the control panel and make the adjustments within the back end.

As I've already paid up for the flash site until March next year, I think I'll just go down the .com route for the html site, then look at both sites in a few months and see which one's working best, then go back to just having the one site based on whichever creates more leads.
 
Ah I see.

New to all this so didn't know about the hosting packages.

Genuine question, why not use one of the free packaged templates made for photography (Joomla or Wordpress based) and simply buy a hosting package for $50 a year?

It would all be under your control then.

BTW there is some noise in the industry that google is close to indexing text content within flash. I don't suppose that helps much if your files mostly feed images though.

Cheers

Jeff
 
I looked into it, but I need password protected galleries and the ability to sell prints through the site, it all seems a bit heavy to me to set up through the likes of Joomla.
 
Right, I decided on setting up the old html site under .com and keeping the flash site under .co.uk, which I have now done. There's a splash page on .co.uk which gives the option to enter either the flash or html sites.

The question is, will Google see duplicate content throughout the two sites, bearing in mind how poorly it indexes flash sites?
 
Shouldn't, separate domain names will mean that google sees them as 2 different entities, plus all the flash stuff won't be indexed anyway.
 
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