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SEO Guide: Optimize Your Flash CMS Website
This Search Engine Optimization Guide has been created as an effort to help FlashMoto website owners to optimize their Flash websites, but we think it will be just useful to webmasters who are new to the topic of search engine optimization and wish to improve their sites’ interaction with both users and search engines. This guide won’t tell you any secrets that’ll automatically rank your site first for search engine queries, but following the steps outlined below will make it easier for search engines to both crawl and index your content.
This is a huge myth that Flash websites are not shown up on Goggle. And you can make sure in it. According to SEOmoz, there are Top 5 Ranking Factors:
- Keyword Focused Anchor Text from External Links;
- External Link Popularity;
- Diversity of Link Sources;
- Keyword Use Anywhere in the Title Tag;
- Trustworthiness of the Domain Based on Link Distance from Trusted Domains.
These five general factors don’t consider whether a website made in Flash or HTML. And just before asking why Google doesn’t see your website, please verify if you have taken into account the factors mentioned above.
Of course, internal ranking factors: HTML keywords on the page, H1 tags, Meta titles and descriptions, sitemaps – are also very important. And only by uniting external and internal ranking factors you will be able to increase your Flash website visibility and become a success.
So, get ready and we will lead you through the simple procedure of search engine optimization of the FlashMoto website!
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1. FlashMoto Content Optimization. How our CMS for Flash works
Flash content, when used effectively, can work great for SEO. FlashMoto CMS is organized and functioning in the way that Google entirely indexes your Flash website content. The thing is Flash sites built with FlashMoto have two versions:
- Flash version (seen by users);
- HTML version (seen by search engines and users who don’t have Flash player).
Take a look at the screenshots below.
Flash version:
Now working with FlashMoto CMS becomes even easier, as our partner – Template-Help.com – opens a section of FlashMoto CMS tutorials! These video tutorials deal with editing Flash CMS templates, managing your website content, pages, menu, preferences and effects, working with Flash CMS modules and components, and etc.
Learn how easy you can install a flash cms template and activate the software, edit text and images, add the new blocks, pages, popups, menu items and form modules. Step by step you will see how to configure the contact form, link menu buttons to external URLs, manage object placement positions and much more. Moreover, there are video tutorials that deal with the Font Manager and teaches the best practices method of creating the custom font and uploading it to your website.
Flash photo gallery module and media library component are also at the center of attention. The tutorials explain how to manage them in order to create a powerful and attractive Flash CMS website.
The FlashMoto section consists of the following video tutorials:
Flash CMS wizard overview
How to install a flash CMS template
How to edit text
How to edit images
How to duplicate objects
How to add a scroll
How to add a form module
How to add a new block
How to add a new menu
How to add a new page
How to add a new popup
How to configure the contact form
How to manage menus
How to link menu buttons to external URLs
How to manage object placement position
How to manage pages
How to manage website preferences
How to manage actions
How to manage effects
How to work with the font manager
How to manage the gallery module
How to manage the media library
FlashMoto is on the hunt for Flash and Flex developers. We are looking for qualified, motivated and innovative people with a creative mind and a keen understanding of user experience to join our engineering team and work on designing, developing and implementing Flash CMS templates, components, modules and plug-ins for an advanced Flash CMS. Candidates with extensive experience in web development and Adobe Flash are preferred. There are different terms for collaboration. The payment is subject to negotiation.
Requirements / Qualities:
1. For Flash/Flex Developers (components, modules and plug-ins development):
* Must have at least 2 years’ professional programming experience;
* Must have experience using the following technologies: Actionscript 3, Flex, OOP (Object Oriented Programming), AIR;
* Must have an online portfolio with the best examples of your work.
2. For Flash Developers (Flash CMS templates development):
* Must have at least 2 years professional experience;
* Knowledge of: Actionscript 3, Flash CS3 or CS4;
* Animation skills;
* Must have an online portfolio with the best examples of your work.
If you are interested in applying then please email us at support [at] flashmoto.com along with your contact details, your skills and your skill level, any examples of past work and any references you may have. Please include your hourly rate and the desired pay when applying. Make sure you specified the subject: ‘Job Application ‘.
Hope to hear from you soon!
There are situations when use of Flash can be inappropriate, for example when you need to create a complex online store. But if you want to present some multimedia content, particularly images, Flash can often be an excellent solution for you, with flexible image management for web designers and impressive visual presentation for users.
Everybody will agree that one of the indisputable advantages of Flash technology is the ability to create splendid slideshows and Flash photo galleries. It gives you an opportunity to present your photos in the most attractive and unique way and enhance your website functionality. That’s why Flash Gallery CMS websites are in great demand among artists and photographers, design studios and advertising agencies.
So, this blog post features 10 attractive and convenient Flash Gallery CMS designs that demonstrate excellent use of Flash technology to create beautiful photo galleries. All these Flash photo galleries are powered by the advanced innovative CMS for Flash provided by FlashMoto.
Enjoy the collection!
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Flash Gallery of Art or Photography
Good design is making something intelligible and memorable, just like the design of this stunning Flash photo gallery. The gallery easily and fancifully twists when you just move a mouse over the page. To open any image in big preview, just click on its thumbnail. Moreover, this flash photo gallery is very flexible: with no difficulties you can customize the number of rows and make it as long/short as you wish.
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Spherical Flash Photo Gallery
This gallery is probably the most powerful Flash photo gallery solution out there. This sphere-shaped gallery presents an extraordinary way of showing your media content and is easy customizable via convenient FlashMoto control panel. It also enables you to switch between two view modes: spherical and flat rectangular.
Another fresh new year is here. Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start. But if to look more closely into this, Year’s end is, per se, neither an end nor a beginning but a going on. The tendencies that were outlined in the past 2009 year will definitely be developing in 2010.
And today we would like to talk about the latest trends in Flash technology that will enter the Flash fight arena and have all chances to be popular this year.
So, what will be trendy in 2010?
General info about Adobe Flash use at the end of 2009
Flash, along with other Internet technologies, have a long road left to travel. And we see new horizons for Flash works. Since Adobe Flash first release, the program has developed into a world-class authoring tool getting more popular among web professionals. The technologies Flash developers like using most are the video capabilities and the ability to load multiple types of external data, in particular images, XML and video.
From now Flash-built websites no longer serve up a single, impenetrable page. Flashers offer deep, searchable, indexable sites that will allow acute, detailed traffic and behavioral analytics and search engine optimization.
Flash provides much more possibilities for developers: the ability to create a gaming experience with a truly cinematic quality, build the original navigation structure, display photos in an innovative manner and etc. So, nowadays Flash does help to produce functional Web sites that serve their purpose, instead of sluggish interfaces cluttered by unnecessary elements. And here we can also point out another tendency: as soon as websites increase in their importance as a company’s storefront, the demand for rich, brand-extending interfaces also increases.
We are glad to announce that our partner – TemplateTuning.com – officially starts providing FlashMoto templates customization services.
You no longer need to spend much time and efforts in search of a Flash developer who can transform your FlashMoto template, because Template Tuning offers all kinds of customization services that meet high quality standards. A reliable team of web professionals will help you edit the website animation, color scheme, FlashMoto template layout and any other elements built into the template. You may also order Flash CMS configuration and activation on your server. Another words, at TemplateTuning you will find the biggest choice of solutions to your taste and you can be sure that everything will be completed in the shortest terms.
All you need is to choose any Flash CMS template from our collection, contact TemplateTuning support manager specifying your customization requirements and then monitor the production process. At the end you will get a complete powerful unique website powered by our Flash CMS. The result will definitely meet your expectations.
Now a long-awaited moment have come and we announce the names of a fortunate winner of the advanced Flash CMS from FlashMoto and 5 owners of 20% discount on every FlashMoto CMS package (FlashMoto CMS + ready made template) purchase.
As it was said earlier, the contest was open to all people, so everyone could participate in it. The only thing the participants needed to do was to make a tweet and post a comment with a RT link to the blog announcement thereby leaving a request for a free license and discount coupons codes.
The winners were nominated randomly via http://www.random.org/. So, here they are.
FLASH CMS WINNER:
1. JEANETTE PHAM. Jeanette, you get an opportunity to choose any Flash CMS template from our collection.
20% DISCOUNT COUPONS WINNERS:
1. Simon Richards
2. Marina
3. NT
4. Eric
5. Terry
This discount coupons are only valid for Flash Moto CMS package purchase (FlashMoto control panel + template).
Winners, take our congratulations! You will be contacted via e-mail where you will find further instructions with the discount code. Cheers!
Winter’s here. And while everyone else is trying to remember where they packed away their skis and snowboards, FlashMoto Team wants to congratulate everyone with Christmas and New Year and make your holidays joyful and brighter. But what holiday can be without presents? 
Right, it’s time to give you, our dear customers and newcomers, a present – a 30% discount on every standalone FlashMoto CMS purchase! So only now you can buy an advanced Flash CMS from FlashMoto for only $199 $139! Buy the standalone version of Flash Moto CMS right now!
By the way, have you already noticed the beautiful holiday FlashMoto re-design? We tried to create a pleasant magic atmosphere that would make you go away in your dreams in expectation of wonder and something special. Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can express their true feelings. And on this occasion FlashMoto wants to say thanks to all our customers, visitors, contributers, blog readers and subscribers and wish the year 2010 filled with much inspiration, creativity and love. Let success accompany you thought all the year and our Flash CMS give you lots of pleasant moments while working with your Flash website.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
We love when people make their websites with FlashMoto Flash CMS, when they can take advantage of all functionality our flash content management system provides. But we love it more when they talk about how much they love working with FlashMoto. And there is nothing left for us but to admire all our customers’ work.
Many people ask whether anyone use Flash CMS created by FlashMoto in order to see the results and its possibilities. That’s why today we want to showcase the most promising and excellent FlashMoto websites based on Flash CMS templates and fully customized by our clients.
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Craig Beck’s Portfolio
Flash CMS from FlashMoto is in popular demand among artists and photographers because the CMS provides all opportunities to create a splendid portfolio with necessary features: animated image gallery, interactive menu, artist’s profile and contact page. Craig Beck, a talented wedding photographer has also chosen FlashMoto to create a powerful attention-worthy Flash website. The image slideshows accompanied by appealing and charming music pieces are really breathtaking and fascinating.
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Gabriel Perici’s Website
This website has been created for an artist – Gabriel Perici. And as any artist’s portfolio it is remarkable by the stunning Flash photo gallery that contains a countless number of images. This interactive gallery can easily be maintained via Flash CMS from FlashMoto. You just simply upload images, and everything else has already been created for you. A couple of words should be mentioned about the selected color scheme. The black background contrasts well with bright colors and makes them stand out, while red is used like an accent color. It’s a perfect scheme when designing for a gallery of art or photography.
Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season. This special time always brings a lot of fun, joy and happiness. It evokes warm and pleasant feelings, and there is something in the air that makes us feel elated and thrilled. And you? Can you feel the smell of Christmas?
FlashMoto team wants to make this holiday even brighter and more delightful for everyone and gives away ONE FREE FLASHMOTO LICENSE + 5 coupon codes with 20% discount to everyone who is willing to create a professional Flash website powered by our advanced Flash CMS.
FlashMoto Flash CMS Possibilities
Giveaway FlashMoto CMS package includes:
- FlashMoto License;
- FlashMoto Control Panel;
- Ready made flash design;
- Premium support.
Flash CMS created by FlashMoto is extremely user and SEO friendly. It offers everything you may need for controlling and maintaining a complete and powerful Flash website. Advanced WYSIWYG editor, video and image gallery components, rich media library, MP3 player component – this set of tools and widgets will greatly simplify your work.
The first winner will get an opportunity to choose any FlashMoto CMS template according to his/her project needs.
How to Participate
It’s easy to take part in this giveaway.
1. Retweet this article with the message below:
2. Then you must leave a comment to this post using a valid email address and the retweet link. Winners will be contacted by email. Comment example:
3. Comment entries will be accepted until December 21st, 2009. And the winners will be announced on December 22nd, 2009.
4. Winning numbers will be generated randomly (random.org) from the pool of comments and the first winner will get a free FlashMoto License (FlashMoto Control Panel + ready made template on your choice), all other 5 winners will get coupon codes with 20% discount on Flash Moto CMS purchase.
Good luck!
Enjoy the joy and magic of Christmas! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!