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    Just received a rather poor spam from a local company saying that they are experts in web design and develop sites that are "super SEO friendly". One of their current customers is http://www.asd-consultants.co.uk/. They actually BOAST about this site! About how SEO friendly it is. The site is 100% flash, no text anywhere and not even alt text. No meta tags, no keywords, no nothing.
     
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    We had a woman ring once trying to sell me facebook pages, I said no, but she wanted to continue, she wanted to show me an explain of a site they had increased the turnover for with a facebook page, after a quick look the returns policy was that latin filler text, the company contact information was missing, and the site itself was truely awful, when I slated it, she insisted they had turned this company arround with there facebook designs, I had to laugh, she had no idea what SEO was, or anything about web sites, only the rubbish she had been brain washed with in the sales patter.
     
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    kulture said:
    Just received a rather poor spam from a local company saying that they are experts in web design and develop sites that are "super SEO friendly". One of their current customers is http://www.asd-consultants.co.uk/. They actually BOAST about this site! About how SEO friendly it is. The site is 100% flash, no text anywhere and not even alt text. No meta tags, no keywords, no nothing.
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    But they went to all the effort of making SEO optimised title tags!

    Code: 
    <title>asd-consultants</title>

    :eek::(:|:D
     
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    kulture said:
    Did you spot the little image that flashes up ONCE at the bottom to say, "zoom in to enlarge"?
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    This one? ;)

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    Can't see what you are talking about :rolleyes:

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    Method Man said:
    OK chaps what am I missing here?

    To my untrained eye the website looks perfectly ok to me and does everything I'd want from a website.

    How could it be noticeably improved?
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    Because the site is in flash, Google cannot "see" the site content. this is what the site looks like to Google:

    Code: 
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:15:20 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.21 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.21 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_perl/2.0.5 Perl/v5.8.8
Last-Modified: Wed, 05 May 2010 10:58:25 GMT
ETag: "2602958-979-485d6b485b640"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 2425
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
<html xmlns="[URL]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml[/URL]" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>asd-consultants</title>
<script language="javascript">AC_FL_RunContent = 0;</script>
<script src="AC_RunActiveContent.js" language="javascript"></script>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
<!--url's used in the movie-->
<a href="[URL="http://www.asd-engineering.co.uk/%22%3E%3C/a"]http://www.asd-engineering.co.uk/"></a[/URL]>
<a href="[URL="http://www.asd-architecture.co.uk/%22%3E%3C/a"]http://www.asd-architecture.co.uk/"></a[/URL]>
<a href="[URL="http://www.asd-surveys.co.uk/%22%3E%3C/a"]http://www.asd-surveys.co.uk/"></a[/URL]>
<!--text used in the movie-->
<!--
<p align="right"><font face="Swiss 721 Bold Extended BT" size="9" color="#ffffff" letterSpacing="0.000000" kerning="1"><a href="[EMAIL="[email protected]"]mailto:[email protected][/EMAIL] ">[email protected] </a></font></p>
-->
<!-- saved from url=(0013)about:internet -->
<script language="javascript">
 if (AC_FL_RunContent == 0) {
  alert("This page requires AC_RunActiveContent.js.");
 } else {
  AC_FL_RunContent(
   'codebase', 'http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0',
   'width', '100%',
   'height', '100%',
   'src', 'asd-consultants',
   'quality', 'best',
   'pluginspage', 'http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer',
   'align', 'top',
   'play', 'true',
   'loop', 'true',
   'scale', 'showall',
   'wmode', 'window',
   'devicefont', 'false',
   'id', 'asd-consultants',
   'bgcolor', '#ffffff',
   'name', 'asd-consultants',
   'menu', 'true',
   'allowFullScreen', 'false',
   'allowScriptAccess','sameDomain',
   'movie', 'asd-consultants',
   'salign', 't'
   ); //end AC code
 }
</script>
<noscript>
 <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="[URL]http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0[/URL]" width="100%" height="100%" id="asd-consultants" align="top">
 <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
 <param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" />
 <param name="movie" value="asd-consultants.swf" /><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="salign" value="t" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /> <embed src="asd-consultants.swf" quality="best" salign="t" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="100%" height="100%" name="asd-consultants" align="top" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" allowFullScreen="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="[URL]http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer[/URL]" />
 </object>
</noscript>
</body>
</html>
    Look though the code, you won't see any of the content as it's all the the flash animation that Google cannot read.

    The OP stated that a search engine optimisation company was using that as a "demo" of how good they were :)

    Steve
     
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    Well, if they were optimising on one key word (asd-consultants) then you could safely say that the keyword density is 100%. Not sure how this would help the company being found by someone looking for any service they offer but who did not know their name.

    The annoying/frustrating thing is that some people will look at the site and like it and use these spammers to create their site. The spammers are a print company. Good at graphic design, and leaflets. They are designing leaflets and calling them web sites.

    Method Main is quite right. It is an OK design (not my choice, I don't like it) it certainly clearly shows what they do and who they are. It is just an awful site for SEO.
     
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